UWA Handbook 2027

Unit Overview

Description

Medicines Management and Pharmacy Care 2 builds on the foundations established in MMPC1, continuing a body-systems and disease-state approach to medicines management across community and hospital practice settings. The unit focuses on the management of chronic and complex conditions, including dermatological, cardiovascular, renal, haematological and gastrointestinal disorders. Pharmaceutical sciences and clinical therapeutics are integrated to support safe, effective and individualised medicines use, with increasing emphasis on monitoring, optimisation of therapy, and long-term care.

MMPC2 is delivered in parallel with Community Pharmacy Placement, with intentional alignment between academic learning activities and workplace-based experiences. A defining feature of the unit is the continued progression of clinical and professional skills aligned with Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs), including primary health care, chronic disease consultations, medication assessment and planning, extemporaneous compounding, and professional documentation. Through case-based learning, skills laboratories, pharmaceutics laboratories, simulation, and team-based learning, students develop increasing clinical reasoning, professional judgement, and accountability. This integrated approach supports consolidation of learning prior to the final intensive placement block and prepares students for more advanced clinical practice in subsequent units.

Credit

12 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Non-standard teaching period	UWA (Perth)	Face to face

The timetable for this teaching period is not currently available. Please see the Important Dates page for the timetable release date and other key date information.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) demonstrate increasing autonomy, professionalism, accountability, and fitness to practise in structured, case-based clinical learning environments; (2) analyse legal and ethical issues in pharmacy scenarios and apply critical thinking to justify professional decisions; (3) apply pharmaceutical science principles to clinical decision-making that supports the safe and quality use of medicines in defined and moderately complex patient scenarios; (4) apply principles of medicine preparation and supply, including basic extemporaneous compounding, in accordance with professional and legislative standards in simulated settings; (5) apply knowledge of diseases and conditions affecting relevant body systems across patients with more than one condition; (6) analyse and apply drug information and pharmacy?-related literature to inform clinical reasoning in moderately complex simulated scenarios; (7) apply pharmacy knowledge, developing clinical skills, and the patient care process to support person-centred care across a range of simulated scenarios; and (8) demonstrate effective communication skills that support collaborative, inclusive, culturally safe, person-centred care, including for First Nations peoples and priority populations, using traditional and contemporary formats in case-based and simulated environments.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) integrated learning activities; (2) written assessments; (3) professional behaviour; and (4) practical assessments. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the professional behaviour component.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Natalia Popowicz

Unit rules

Prerequisites

Enrolment in

51500 Doctor of Pharmacy
or CM039 Bachelor of Human Sciences (Pharmaceutical Health) and Doctor of Pharmacy

and Successful completion of

PHCY3303 Foundations of Pharmacy
or PHCY4403 Foundations of Pharmacy

Co-requisites

Enrolment in

PHCY5501 Medicines Management and Patient Care 1

Contact hours

10-14 hours of lectures per week, 7-12 hours per week of hands-on learning activities including workshops, tutorials, team-based learning, clinical skills labs and pharmaceutics labs.