Integrated Dispensing Practice links together the skills and knowledge that students have developed throughout their degree to perform the fundamental skills required of pharmacists in practice. In a simulated-practice environment, students interact with patients and health providers to optimise health outcomes. In order to assist students to see the patient as a whole person within a personal and social, as well as medical context, specific patients are followed over an extended period of time. Interactions include responding to requests for prescription and non-prescription medicines. Learning is centred on developing the skills required to effectively manage medication-information and to record the outcomes of patient interactions. Verbal communication skills are developed in order to interact effectively with patients and health providers to elicit medication- related information and to provide advice, recommendations and support. Students integrate and reconcile various pieces of information to make an assessment of the appropriateness of medicine for a patient are also developed. Written communication skills are developed in order to: systematically document patient interactions; devise a current medication list; report incidents, write letters to prescribers; and issue certificates for absence from work.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Pharmacy |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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PHAR3100 and PHAR3815 and PHAR3825 and PHAR3816 and PHAR3817 and PHAR3818 and PHAR3819 and PHAR3826 and PHAR3827 and PHAR3820 |
Corequisites
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PHAR4811 and (PHAR4814 or PHAR4815 or WORK3202 or WORK2222) and PHAR4823 and PHAR4100 |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Joel Hillman, joel.hillman@sydney.edu.au |
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Tutor(s) | Joel Hillman, joel.hillman@sydney.edu.au |
Alex Burke, alexander.burke@sydney.edu.au | |
Ben Basger, ben.basger@sydney.edu.au | |
Hediyeh Vahdat, hediyeh.vahdat@sydney.edu.au | |
Lachlan Oldfield, lachlan.oldfield@sydney.edu.au | |
Johnny Phuong, jonathan.phuong@sydney.edu.au |