Research in Quality Use of Medicines (11644.1)

This unit will study activities which promote safe, appropriate, judicious and efficacious, and cost-effective use of medicines for individuals and populations. These principles will be applied through undertaking a research project.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Implement the principles of Quality Use of Medicines;
2 Critically evaluate and synthesis research to inform practice change; and
3. Generate new evidence-based knowledge through engagement in research and scholarship.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development

Prerequisites

9011 Pharmacy Practice 3 AND 9009 Clinical Therapeutics 3 AND 9001 Evidence Based Medicine 2 AND
Must have passed 84 credit points

Corequisites

11501 Pharmacy Practice 5 AND 9010 Clinical Therapeutics 4 AND 9012 Pharmacy Practice 4

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.