The Master of Clinical Pharmacy is designed to enable you to advance your skills in the provision of clinical pharmacy services to patients with complex clinical needs. It has a focus on evidence based practice and quality use of medicine.

The course Handbook provides detailed information about course requirements, unit offerings and course map for your commencement year. You are encouraged to complete units progressively as suggested on the course map.

Streams of study

You have the option of completing the course in either:

1. the coursework stream where you select the units to suit your own interest. These studies cover aspects of pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacy, economics related to health care and wound care relevant to pharmacy.

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2. the coursework and research stream where you will follow a set study plan that will help you gain specialist clinical knowledge in addition to advanced skills in research and clinical pharmacy practice.

You do not necessarily need to decide on the stream of study you want to complete the course in at the beginning of your course; there is some flexibility for you to move across the two streams but that does depend on the units you enrol into, have completed or may have been granted credit for.

We do encourage you to make time to chat to your line manager/supervisor and colleagues before making a decision regarding the stream of study to complete the MClinPharm in to ensure that your choice will best benefit your career progression.

Please do reach out to either the course director, Associate Professor Steven Walker or the Postgraduate Coursework Office if you would like to set up a time to discuss selection of stream of study or if you require course planning advice.

Study load

Please note that each 6 credit point unit you enrol in will require on average 10-12 hours of scheduled activities (e.g. teacher directed learning, reading time, participation in online discussions or discussion groups, research and preparation for assignments) per week. We suggest that you start your first semester of enrolment by enrolling in just 6 credit points of study.