Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours)

Course Details

Get started in pharmacy. Want to launch your pharmacy career with an accredited degree and a wealth of hands-on experience? You're in the right place. Take the first steps on your path to playing a vital role in your community and a successful career as a pharmacist with La Trobe's accredited Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours). Build your understanding of how medicines treat diseases and impact people's lives, and the importance of patient-centred and individualised care. Access our on-campus training pharmacy and get work-ready by participating in a range of community and hospital placements. By completing La Trobe's Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours), you will: understand biochemistry, haematology and pharmacology and how systems of the body work, and how diseases and medicines affect these systems learn counselling and communication techniques that equip you to deliver patient-centred care explore the evolving use of digital technologies in healthcare and the technological, clinical, social, legal and ethical impacts of digital health develop expertise in the practical applications of pharmaceutical care, including drugs used in respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, infections, endocrinology, psychiatry, oncology and palliative care examine issues in public health, including rural and remote Australia and across Indigenous communities graduate eligible to complete a one-year internship and take the Pharmacy Board of Australia exams to qualify as a professional pharmacist.

Qualification: Bachelor Degree (Honours)

Course structure: To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours), students must complete 480 credit points consisting of: 435 core credit points and Individual Honours Project 45 core credit points OR Coursework Honours 45 core credit points