Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy PGDipClinPharm

Summary

Graduates of the postgraduate diploma will be able to:

• Ensure the safe, effective and economic use of medicines for both individual patients and patient groups
• Design, implement and optimise pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients in a broad range of therapeutic areas
• Manage the pharmaceutical care of patients with complex clinical needs
• Develop specialised knowledge of medicines' use in areas of clinical interest, including advanced medicines management

This programme has been designed to allow students living anywhere in New Zealand to enrol, as most of the material will be presented online (supplemented by face-to-face weekend workshops for some courses).

The Clinical Pharmacy specialisation aims to expand the experience of pharmacists in the development and implementation of patient-centred pharmaceutical care and medicines management plans. The programme covers a wide range of therapeutic areas and can cater to patients with complex clinical needs.

The Prescribing specialisation, on the other hand, equips pharmacists with the knowledge, skills and attributes to prescribe medicines competently within a collaborative healthcare team environment.

Prescribing will teach you:

• Demonstrate comprehensive pharmacotherapeutic knowledge of medicines within their proposed areas of prescribing practice.
• Assess and evaluate relevant clinical information concerning individual patients in order to prescribe safely and effectively.
• Demonstrate skills in patient assessment, diagnoses and clinical decision-making to facilitate good prescribing decisions.
• Demonstrate competence in prescribing practice under supervision.

If you have already completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and would like to now specialise in Prescribing, please refer to the programme page for Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy.