UWA Handbook 2025

Unit Overview

Description

Community Pharmacy Placement is the first full-time experiential learning placement in the course. It follows the core first year Medicine Management and Patient Care units that prepare students for community placement through weekly community pharmacy immersion experiences. Experiential placements expose students to the practice environment and provide a platform for students to develop their professional, communication and clinical skills. The placement workbook guides students through activities to enhance the experiential learning experience via online discussions, practice activities and self-directed activities.

Credit

6 points

Offering

Availability	Location	Mode	First year of offer
Not available in 2025	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) demonstrate personal autonomy, professionalism, integrity, and accountability in real-world settings; (2) analyse real-world situations and apply critical thinking and decision-making skills when assessing legal and ethical aspects of pharmacy practice; (3) prepare and supply medicines accurately and efficiently, including basic extemporaneous preparations, in accordance with legislative and accepted professional practice standards; (4) search, evaluate, and apply up-to-date drug information and pharmacy-related literature to a variety of simple scenarios in real-world settings using established research principles and methods; (5) provide person-centred care by integrating and applying foundational pharmacy knowledge, clinical skills, and the pharmacist patient care process to a variety of simple clinical scenarios in real-world settings to promote, maintain, and/or improve patient health, with a commitment to First Nations peoples and other priority populations, and a dedication to inclusive, equitable and accessible healthcare; and (6) demonstrate communication skills that enable the provision of team-based, inclusive, culturally safe, person-centred care to diverse populations using contemporary and/or traditional formats.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) portfolio; (2) reflection report; and (3) placement appraisal. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the portfolio and placement appraisal components.

This unit is assessed on an ungraded pass/ungraded failed basis. All assessment items must be successfully completed.

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Deena Ashoorian and Amanda Mannolini

Unit rules

Prerequisites

Enrolment in

or 51500 Master of Pharmacy CM039 Bachelor of Human Sciences (Pharmaceutical Health) and Master of Pharmacy

Successful completion of

or PHCY3303 Foundations of Pharmacy PHCY4403 Foundations of Pharmacy

Incidental fees

Incidental student fees and charges are costs incurred by students as part of their studies at UWA that are in addition to their tuition fees (further information is available "
Participation in this unit will incur the following incidental fee(s):
Travel and accommodation for rural placements (estimated cost - At cost).

Contact hours

placement full-time (3 weeks)

Texts

Required texts
1. Australian Pharmaceutical Formulary and Handbook, current edn: PSA
2. Australian Medicines Handbook, current edn: PSA

Recommended texts
Chen, T et al. Case Studies in Practice—Medication Review: a Process Guide for Pharmacists, current edn: PSA

Chen, T et al. Case Studies in Practice: Pharmacist only and pharmacy medicines: a process guide for pharmacists, current edn: PSA

Hughes, J. Case Studies in Practice: Use of Laboratory Test Data, current edn: PSA

Gowan, J. and Roller, L. Practical disease state management for pharmacists, current edn: APPCo

Walker, R and Edwards, C. Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, current edn: Churchill Livingstone

National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists: PSA 2010 https://www.psa.org.au/download/standards/competency-standards-complete.pdf