Pharmaceutical Industry Experience

Course aim

To provide an industry related experience that broadens the student’s perspective and develops a vocational focus towards one of the program’s career specialties: research; manufacturing; drug development; or other specific professional roles such as sales and marketing, regulatory affairs, product management or clinical pharmacy.

Course content

Completion of either a placement within a relevant industry or institution (Government, Patent Attorney, pharmaceutical industry, etc), or an industry focused research project undertaken under the supervision of an academic member of staff.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
PHAR 2010	Drug Discovery
PHAR 2009	Drug Development
PHAR 1005	Pharmaceutical Industry

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY EAST
Field Placement	80 hours x -
Lecture	8 hours x 1 week

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Seminar Presentation, Supervisor Report, Written Report

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.