Pharmacy
Education programs are provided to a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students from Victoria, other states and territories of Australia and international universities.
The training program content will vary depending upon the nature of the placement but may include rotations through the clinical pharmacy services within the pharmacy department, including:
- outpatients/dispensary
- clinical ward services
- manufacturing: aseptic and non-aseptic
- quality use of medicines
- drug information centre
- hospital outreach medication review service
- clinical drug trials
Undergraduate pharmacy students
Education programs are provided to undergraduate pharmacy students from a range of Australian universities.
Professional Experience Placement (PEP) program
As part of Monash University's undergraduate pharmacy degree, third and fourth year pharmacy students are required to undertake a series of community and hospital pharmacy placements, known as the professional experience placement (PEP) program.
Students completing their placement at Southern Health are given the opportunity to develop skills in the areas of clinical pharmacy, problem solving, medication history taking, patient counselling and therapeutic planning.
Hospital 1 students are rotated through specialty areas within the pharmacy department (drug information, outpatients/dispensary, inpatient pharmacy and aseptic manufacturing) in addition to spending time working with clinical pharmacists on the wards.
Hospital 2 students get the opportunity to work with specialised pharmacists in the areas of clinical trials, drug usage and evaluation and adverse drug reporting, as well as work on the wards.
International pharmacy students
Training objectives
To gain an understanding of:
- types of services provided by the pharmacy department, in particular: outpatient/dispensary; clinical ward service; manufacturing; quality use of medicines; drug information centre; hospital outreach medication review service
- clinical drug trial review and logistic support services
- clinical role of ward pharmacists
- Southern Health drug formulary, the role of the Therapeutics Committee, its subcommittee and general management of drug expenditure
- adverse drug reaction monitoring program, drug utilisation evaluation program and other relevant quality use of medicines issues.
General information
- students will need to be registered as a pharmacy student with the Pharmacy Board of Victoria
- students must provide evidence of university enrollment and their approval for training at Southern Health Pharmacy Department
- students must provide evidence of a police check with no record of criminal conviction or charges.
For further information regarding the training program for international pharmacy students T: 03 9594 2360, email or mail:
Director of Pharmacy
Monash Medical Centre
246 Clayton Road
Clayton VIC 3168
Pharmacy interns
Southern Health Pharmacy Department provides a comprehensive 12 month training program for pharmacy interns whom have completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy.
Locations
Casey Hospital
T: 03 8768 1593
Hours: 8.45am-5.15pm Monday to Friday, 10.00am-noon Saturday and Sunday
Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre
T: 03 5990 6194
Hours: 9.00am-1.00pm, 2:15pm-5:15pm Monday to Friday
Dandenong Hospital
T: 03 9554 8303
Hours: 8.45am-5.15pm Monday to Friday, 10.00am-12.30pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
Kingston Centre
T: 03 9265 1241
Hours: 8.30am-5.00pm Monday to Friday
Monash Medical Centre, Clayton
T: 03 9594 2360
Hours: 8.45am-5.15pm Monday to Friday, 9.00am-1.00pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
Monash Medical Centre, Moorabbin
T: 03 9928 8724
Hours: 8.30am-5.00pm Monday to Friday, 10.00am-noon Saturday
The Encapsulator
This is our pharmacy bulletin which is published quarterly and focuses on medicine issues specifically related to hospital practice.
2012
- Editorial: Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions - Why is it important?
- Lithium-associated hyperthyroidism
- Simvastatin: An update
- National NIMC audit results
- Slow release and extended release tramadol formulations
- Proton pump inhibitors for babies with gastro-oesophageal reflux
2011
- Editorial: The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia - 50 years of national leadership
- Mirtazapine-induced hepatocellular-type liver injury
- Labelling of injectable medicines, fluids and lines
- Surgical - antimicrobial prophylaxis procedure
- Medicine and substance exposure in pregnancy
- Seasons greetings
- Dr Pharma Seuss
- Editorial: Healthcare reform in China - Why are clinical pharmacists so important?
- Adverse drug reaction: Oral methotrexate causing hiccups
- Changes to prescribing of Section 100 Highly Specialised Drugs
- Medication management plan
- NSAID use claimed to increase risk for spontaneous abortion
- Editorial: Marketing pharmaceuticals - Are the benefits real?
- Vorixconazole significantly increasing blood concentration of tacrolimus
- Pharmacy services in the new anaesthetic assessment clinic
- New medication formulary documents and consent form
- Hyponatramia associated with antihypertensive medications and water ingestion
- Increased risk of blood clots associated with birth control pills
- Editorial: Empowering patients to take control of their medication - The way forward?
- Ketamine
- Citalopram-induced hallucinations and delusions in a young adult
- Medical interns prescribing competency
- Nutritionally dense supplements on the medication chart
- Antipsychotic medications in pregnancy and breastfeeding
2010
- Editorial: New technology and medication safety - Can e-prescribing make a difference?
- Clarifications
- Clarithromycin and statins
- Benzodiazepines
- VTE box on national inpatient medication chart
- Antihistamines in pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Seasons greetings
- Editorial: Improving medication effectiveness - Are biomarkers and precision medicine the answer?
- Interesting points about dipyridamole and clopidogrel
- Food allergies and medicines
- Colchicine dosing in acute gout
- Switch campaign - update
- Mycophenolate in pregnancy
2009
