Note: This course is not available in 2025.
Course overview
- Description
The Doctor of Pharmacy (Refresher) is a course for Australian registered pharmacists who have previously graduated from the UWA Master of Pharmacy (Extended). This course provides the opportunity for registered practising pharmacists to upgrade their existing qualifications to a Doctor of Pharmacy.
- Course title
- Doctor of Pharmacy (Refresher) (coursework) (extended)
- Award abbreviation
- DPharm
- Course code
- 92630
- Course type
- Master's by coursework (extended)
- Status
- Not available in 2025
- Administered by
- Allied Health
Course details
- Intake periods
- Beginning of year and mid-year
- Attendance type
- Full- or part-time
- Credit points required
- 48
A standard full-time load is 24 points per semester. - Standard course duration
- 0.5 full-time (or equivalent part-time) comprising 24 points of taught units and 24 points of admission credit, as recognised and granted by the School
- Maximum course duration
- 0.5 full-time (or equivalent part-time) comprising up to 48 points of taught study (see Rule 5 for further information)
- Time limit
- 3 years
- Delivery mode
- Multi-mode
- Locations offered
- UWA (Perth)
- Domestic fee type
- Postgraduate fee-paying/FEE-HELP
- Available to international students
- Not available to international students on student visas. Available to international students on other visas if visa conditions allow (see https://www.immi.gov.au). For information on international student fees see 'Student Procedures: Fees'. (Enquiries: https://www.uwa.edu.au/askuwa)
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Dr Amy Page
- Fees
- Visit the fees calculator.
Prospective students should see the Future Students website for details on admission requirements, intake periods, fees, availability to international students, careers information etc.
No study plans found for this course. See study plans for more information.
Specialisations
Course structure
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
- SS
- summer teaching period
- N/A
- not available in 2025 – may be available in 2026 or 2027
- *
- to be advised
Take all units (12 points):
| Availability | Unit code | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| * | PHCY5160 | (12 points) | None |
Take unit(s) to the value of 12 points:
Note: Select units from this group. If you want to take a unit that is not specified here, please contact the course coordinator to discuss.
| Availability | Unit code | Unitname | Unit requirements | Contact hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | PHCY5151 | Advanced Clinical Reasoning |
| This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. It includes compulsory experiential learning. |
| N/A | PHCY5152 | Quality Use of Medicines and Safe Prescribing | This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. | |
| * | PHCY5153 | (0 points) | None | |
| N/A | PHCY5156 | Medication Management Reviews |
| This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. It includes a compulsory experiential learning. |
| N/A | PHCY5157 | Aged Care Pharmacy |
| This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. It includes compulsory experiential learning. |
| N/A | PHCY5161 | Advanced Geriatric Pharmacy Practice 1 |
| This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. |
| N/A | PHCY5162 | Advanced Geriatric Pharmacy Practice 2 |
| 150 |
| N/A | PHCY5163 | Diabetes Education 1 |
| This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. |
| N/A | PHCY5164 | Diabetes Education 2 |
| This unit is available online in asynchronous format of learning. It includes compulsory experiential learning. |
| * | PHCY5167 | ( points) | None | |
| * | PHCY5168 | ( points) | None |
See also the rules for the course and the Student Rules.
Rules
Note: This course is not available in 2025.
Applicability of the Student Rules, policies and procedures
1.(1) The Student Rules apply to students in this course.
(2) The policy, policy statements and guidance documents and student procedures apply, except as otherwise indicated in the rules for this course.
Academic Conduct Essentials and Communication and Research Skills modules
2.(1) A student who enrols in this course for the first time irrespective of whether they have previously been enrolled in another course of the University, must undertake the Academic Conduct Essentials module (the ACE module) and the Communication and Research Skills module (the CARS module).
(2) A student must successfully complete the ACE module within the first teaching period of their enrolment. Failure to complete the module within this timeframe will result in the student's unit results from this teaching period being withheld. These results will continue to be withheld until students avail themselves of a subsequent opportunity to achieve a passing grade in the ACE module. In the event that students complete units in subsequent teaching periods without completing the ACE module, these results will similarly be withheld. Students will not be permitted to submit late review or appeal applications regarding results which have been withheld for this reason and which they were unable to access in the normally permitted review period.
English Language competency requirements
3. To be considered eligible for consideration for admission to this course an applicant must satisfy the University's English language competence requirement as set out in the University Policy on Admission: Coursework.
Admission requirements
4. To be considered for admission to this course an applicant must have—Graduates from The University of Western Australia's Master of Pharmacy program
AND
Registered pharmacists with the Pharmacy Board of Australia and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
AND
Currently working as a pharmacist in Australia for at least 120 hours over the most recent 12 month period.
Admission ranking and selection
5. Where relevant, admission will be awarded to the highest ranked applicants or applicants selected based on the relevant requirements.
Articulations and exit awards
6. This course does not form part of an articulated sequence.
Course structure
7.(1) The course consists of units to a total value of 48 points (maximum value) which include conversion units to a value of 24 points.
(2) Units must be selected in accordance with the course structure, as set out in these rules.
(3) Students who have completed a Master of Pharmacy from The University of Western Australia are granted credit for conversion units up to a value of 24 points.
Satisfactory progress
8. To make satisfactory progress a student must pass units to a point value greater than half the total value of units in which they remain enrolled after the final date for withdrawal without academic penalty.
9. A student who has not achieved a result of Ungraded Pass (UP) for the Communication and Research Skills module (the CARS module) when their progress status is assessed will not have made satisfactory progress even if they have met the other requirements for satisfactory progress in Rule 8.
Progress status
10.(1) A student who makes satisfactory progress in terms of Rule 8 is assigned the status of 'Good Standing'.
(2) Unless the relevant board determines otherwise because of exceptional circumstances—
(a) a student who does not make satisfactory progress for the first time under Rule 8 is assigned a progress status of 'On Probation';
(b) a student who does not make satisfactory progress for the second time under Rule 8 is assigned a progress status of 'Suspended';
(c) a student who does not make satisfactory progress for the third time under Rule 8 is assigned a progress status of 'Excluded'.
11. A student who does not make satisfactory progress in terms of Rule 9 is assigned the progress status of 'On Probation', unless they have been assigned a progress status of 'Suspended' or 'Excluded' for failure to meet other satisfactory progress requirements in Rule 8.
Award with distinction
12. To be awarded the degree with distinction a student must achieve a course weighted average mark (WAM) of at least 80 per cent which is calculated based on—
(a) all units above Level 3 attempted as part of the course that are awarded a final percentage mark;
(b) all relevant units above Level 3 undertaken in articulating courses of this University that are awarded a final percentage mark;
and
(c) all units above Level 3 completed at this University that are credited to the master's degree course.
Deferrals
13. Applicants awarded admission to the course are entitled to a deferral of up to 12 months, as per the University Policy on: Admissions (Coursework).