The Division seeks to maximise opportunities for first year students to share common units in classes and small groups while keeping a component of each unit to be taught by 'home' Schools in the context of applied practice. Professional placements characterise later years of our degree courses, with the objective of ensuring the successful merging of theory and practice. Proficiency in electronic communication is taught early so that students may take full advantage of multi media teaching strategies which are increasingly being used both in on-campus teaching and through distance education. These develop into pharmaceutical practice and clinical pharmacy which consider professional pharmacy roles. Graduates are recognised in Western Australia and elsewhere for registration as professional pharmacists.
Pharmacists registered in Western Australia can practise anywhere in Australasia.
After meeting certain requirements, registration is possible in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Health records serve as a database for health care planning and management decisions, legal and administrative purposes, and research identifying trends for the treatment of disease and for evaluating the standards and quality of patient care. Graduates may be employed in the areas of data base management, casemix, quality improvement, project management, or as research assistants, public and private hospital health information managers, health information consultants, or primary care practice managers. As well as specialist health promotion units in planning, methodology and evaluation, the course requires the student to complete studies in the multidisciplinary areas that underlie the practise of health promotion. Typically, students enrolling in such a degree would pursue careers in government and non-government health agencies, corporate health or secondary education.