Course coordinator
Dr Wubshet Tesfaye
Course overview
- Study period
- Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025)
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Attendance mode
- In Person
- Units
- 2
- Administrative campus
- Dutton Park
- Coordinating unit
- Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences School
The course provides skill development in medication management reviews and medication dispensing. There is strong focus on building and integrating the knowledge and skills from different courses throughout the BPharm Program and applying these in the optimisation of medicine use in the individual patient.
Contemporary pharmacy practice has evolved from focusing on medication supply to providing a range of professional and clinical services, further expanding the role of pharmacists in health services. A key aspect of this is the pharmacist's ability to conduct comprehensive medication reviews, whether during dispensing, counselling, or detailed reviews like medication reconciliation and government funded medication review programs. This competency is highlighted in the National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia.
The PHRM4011 course builds your skills in undertaking medication management reviews across the healthcare continuum, including community, hospital and residential aged care settings. The course focuses on building and integrating the knowledge and skills you have acquired over the past three years in the pharmacy program and applying these in the optimisation of medicine use in complex patient scenarios.
Course requirements
Assumed background
It is expected that upon entering PHRM4011, students will have a working knowledge of the medicines and therapeutics used to manage diseases as covered in all previous years of the Pharmacy program. Students are expected to have a comprehensive understanding of the medicines that have been covered in the program to date.ﾠ
It is also expected that students in PHRM4011 are open to learning in different ways so that they can practice and perfect the skills of applying their clinical knowledge to individual scenarios.ﾠ
Incompatible
You can't enrol in this course if you've already completed the following:
PHRM4010
Restrictions
Restricted to Bachelor of Pharmacy students
Course contact
Course staff
Lecturer
Dr Wubshet Tesfaye
Dr Shakti Shrestha
Guest lecturer
Mrs Debbie Rigby
Dr Geraldine Moses
Timetable
The timetable for this course is available on the UQ Public Timetable.
Additional timetable information
Timetables are available on mySI-net and Blackboard.ﾠ
Aims and outcomes
The overall aim of PHRM4011 is to provide students with opportunities to develop and demonstrate application of their knowledge and skillsﾠto optimise medication use in scenarios that reflect contemporary pharmacy practice, using a patient-centred approach.
Learning outcomes
After successfully completing this course you should be able to:
LO1.
Demonstrate an ability to recall and discuss medicines from the personal medicines formulary, and apply knowledge of these to medication reviews
LO2.
Demonstrate an ability to seek additional information that would assist in making an assessment of a patient’s individual medication regimen
LO3.
Demonstrate integration of all aspects of pharmacy knowledge to identify, describe, and justify recommendations to resolve medication-related problems
LO4.
Demonstrate an ability to develop safe and appropriate management plans (including monitoring), using a patient-centred approach, to optimise the use of medications and patient health outcomes
LO5.
Demonstrate an ability to clearly and concisely communicate with medical practitioners and other health care practitioners
LO6.
Demonstrate skill development in medication history taking, medication reconciliation, prioritisation and deprescribing as integral components of medication review
LO7.
Dispense and check prescriptions quickly, safely, legally and accurately in accordance with the PDL (Pharmaceutical Defence Limited) Guide to Good Dispensing and in a way that is patient focused
Assessment
Assessment summary
| Category | Assessment task | Weight | Due date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiz |
Online quizzes
|
21% (3% each) |
Quiz 1 - 24/03/2025 3:00 pm Quiz 2 - 31/03/2025 3:00 pm Quiz 3 - 7/04/2025 3:00 pm Quiz 4 - 14/04/2025 3:00 pm Quiz 5 - 12/05/2025 3:00 pm Quiz 6 - 19/05/2025 3:00 pm Quiz 7 - 26/05/2025 3:00 pm
Complete each quiz during the 6 days prior to each deadline. |
| Presentation |
Grand round presentation
|
25% |
6/05/2025 1:00 pm
Slide presentation is due for upload by 5pm on previous day |
| Reflection |
Reflection on learning
|
14% |
23/05/2025 3:00 pm
Attendance at the grand round presentations in Week 10 is necessary to complete this assessment. |
| Paper/ Report/ Annotation |
End of semester take home assignment
|
40% Hurdle |
9/06/2025 2:00 pm |
A hurdle is an assessment requirement that must be satisfied in order to receive a specific grade for the course. Check the assessment details for more information about hurdle requirements.
Assessment details
Online quizzes
- Online
- Mode
- Written
- Category
- Quiz
- Weight
- 21% (3% each)
- Due date
Quiz 1 - 24/03/2025 3:00 pm
Quiz 2 - 31/03/2025 3:00 pm
Quiz 3 - 7/04/2025 3:00 pm
Quiz 4 - 14/04/2025 3:00 pm
Quiz 5 - 12/05/2025 3:00 pm
Quiz 6 - 19/05/2025 3:00 pm
Quiz 7 - 26/05/2025 3:00 pm
Complete each quiz during the 6 days prior to each deadline.
- Learning outcomes
- L01, L03, L04, L07
Task description
There are seven online quizzes. The quizzes will assess students’ knowledge of both online and face-to-face content as well as previous learnings in the BPharm Program.
Each online quiz is an open book and comprises TEN multiple choice questions based on:
- Assigned pre-reading,
- The therapeutic areas covered in the integrated case tutorials (Tuesday tutorials), and
- The material covered in previous lectures and grand rounds of the course.
- You have up to THREE hours to complete each quiz.
- You are allowed TWO attempts for each quiz.
- The quizzes will typically include multiple-choice and problem-solving questions.
Submission guidelines
Quizzes are completed at the link provided in the course Learn.UQ (Blackboard) site.
Deferral or extension
You may be able to apply for an extension.
The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.
Late submission
A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.
Grand round presentation
- Identity Verified
- Team or group-based
- In-person
- Mode
- Oral, Product/ Artefact/ Multimedia
- Category
- Presentation
- Weight
- 25%
- Due date
6/05/2025 1:00 pm
Slide presentation is due for upload by 5pm on previous day
- Learning outcomes
- L01, L02, L03, L04, L05, L06
Task description
Why?
- PHRM4011 aims to empower students to communicate about the medication-related problems a patient may be experiencing, both in writing and verbally. During the student grand round presentation, you will have an opportunity to practice your skills in effectively communicating a medication management plan using the SOAP/SBAR communication frameworks. This skill is valuable in real-life practice when discussing a medication management plan with another clinician, doctor, or nurse, whether in person or over the phone.
What?
- You will work in a group of 3-4 students. Each group will be assigned an integrated case for which they will outline medication- or disease-related problems and their recommendations to resolve those problems. The cases will be posted on Learn.UQ (Blackboard) at least two weeks prior to the scheduled grand round session.
How?
- Each group of students is expected to deliver a 5-7 minutes presentation. Guidance on how to structure the presentation will be provided two weeks prior to the presentation. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about your cases and the student grand round during tutorials.
- See Learn.UQ (Blackboard) for the marking criteria and rubric for this assessment.
This presentation will be recorded and retained as per university policy. The recording will be stored in a secure manner and will only be accessed if required for the purposes of moderation of marking; provision of feedback to the students; and/or re-marking following a successful re-mark application.
Submission guidelines
Submit the presentation slides at the link provided in Learn.UQ (Blackboard). The grand round presentation will be completed in person in Week 10.
Deferral or extension
You may be able to apply for an extension.
The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.
You can request an extension on behalf of your group for a group assessment item, provided that at least 50% of your group members also agree to the request for an extension. Download and complete the form below, and attach this form to your extension request:
extension-to-group-assessment.pdf
Late submission
A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.
Reflection on learning
- Online
- Mode
- Written
- Category
- Reflection
- Weight
- 14%
- Due date
23/05/2025 3:00 pm
Attendance at the grand round presentations in Week 10 is necessary to complete this assessment.
- Other conditions
- Student specific.
- Learning outcomes
- L02, L03, L05
Task description
Why?
- Reflection is a major part of learning as it makes your learning a more conscious and individualised process. It helps you become actively involved in your learning and solidifies knowledge and skills you pick up from lectures, grand round and tutorials. Reflection also helps you build up your skills of recognising mistakes you might have made and then put an action plan to prevent you making those same mistakes moving forward. As future pharmacy interns and pharmacists, reflection will be a part of your everyday clinical practice.
What?
- You will reflect on your experience listening to a presentation about a patient case in the Grand Rounds presentations. You will be assigned a case to listen to and reflect on.
- This assessment is NOT about simply reflecting on the content of the presentation but also your experience listening to it, what you learnt, and how you would apply this in the future.
How?
For one presentation for a different case you have been assigned during the student grand round:
Reflect on your experience of the presentation using the 4 Rs of reflection: Reporting; Responding; Relating; Reconstructing - please refer to the prompts in the table to help you interpret the 4Rs. Some sample prompts are provided to guide you.
Reporting
- What was the case about?
- What seems significant to pay attention to?
- What new information did I notice?
Responding
- What worked well? How do I know it worked well?
- What worked least well? Why do I think that?
- How did I respond emotionally / personally / behaviourally?
Relating
- Relate or make a connection between your observations and your own skills, experience, and knowledge
Reconstructing
- Would I do something differently and why?
- How would this information change or alter my future practice as an intern pharmacist?
- What has this taught me about my practice? About myself?
- How will I use this experience to improve my own process of medicine reviews in the future?
You can aim to write your reflection in 4 paragraphs, one for each of the 4 Rs above. Refer to Learn.UQ (Blackboard) for the marking criteria and guidance for this assessment.
This task has been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst you may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require you to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which AI will provide only limited support and guidance. A failure to reference generative AI use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct. To pass this assessment, you will be required to demonstrate detailed comprehension of your written submission independent of AI tools.
Submission guidelines
Submit your document at the link provided in the course Learn.UQ (Blackboard) site.
Deferral or extension
You may be able to apply for an extension.
The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.
Late submission
A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.
End of semester take home assignment
- Hurdle
- Online
- Mode
- Written
- Category
- Paper/ Report/ Annotation
- Weight
- 40% Hurdle
- Due date
9/06/2025 2:00 pm
- Learning outcomes
- L01, L02, L03, L04, L05, L06
Task description
You are expected to provide a structured response on given patient cases in HMR or RMMR format. You will identify and prioritise any medication-related problems, disease-related problems and patient concerns and provide a plan with appropriate monitoring, counselling, and resolving points for addressing the identified problems.
- The document should be written as a communication of your review report to another health professional (e.g. general practitioner, specialist, nurse, or pharmacist).
- You will have FIVE HOURS to complete this part of the assessment.
- See Learn.UQ (Blackboard) for more details, and for the marking criteria and rubric for this assessment.
This task has been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst you may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require you to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which AI will provide only limited support and guidance. A failure to reference generative AI use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct. To pass this assessment, you will be required to demonstrate detailed comprehension of your written submission independent of AI tools.
Hurdle requirements
You must pass this assessment (i.e. obtain marks equivalent to 50% or greater) to pass this course.Submission guidelines
Deferral or extension
You may be able to apply for an extension.
The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.
If you are unable to complete the assignment at the scheduled date, you must apply for an extension before the assignment closes. There will be one opportunity given for those who need an extension. There will not be any other opportunity for extension or resubmission.
Late submission
You will receive a mark of 0 if this assessment is submitted late.
Course grading
Full criteria for each grade is available in the Assessment Procedure.
| Grade | Cut off Percent | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (Low Fail) | 1 - 29 |
Absence of evidence of achievement of course learning outcomes. |
| 2 (Fail) | 30 - 44 |
Minimal evidence of achievement of course learning outcomes. |
| 3 (Marginal Fail) | 45 - 49 |
Demonstrated evidence of developing achievement of course learning outcomes |
| 4 (Pass) | 50 - 64 |
Demonstrated evidence of functional achievement of course learning outcomes. |
| 5 (Credit) | 65 - 74 |
Demonstrated evidence of proficient achievement of course learning outcomes. |
| 6 (Distinction) | 75 - 84 |
Demonstrated evidence of advanced achievement of course learning outcomes. |
| 7 (High Distinction) | 85 - 100 |
Demonstrated evidence of exceptional achievement of course learning outcomes. |
Supplementary assessment
Supplementary assessment is available for this course.
Learning resources
You'll need the following resources to successfully complete the course. We've indicated below if you need a personal copy of the reading materials or your own item.
Library resources
Find the required and recommended resources for this course on the UQ Library website.
Learning activities
The learning activities for this course are outlined below. Learn more about the learning outcomes that apply to this course.
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| Learning period | Activity type | Topic |
|---|---|---|
Multiple weeks From Week 5 To Week 13 |
Lecture |
Medication management review The lectures explore the principles of medication management review, its application throughout the healthcare continuum, and the pharmacist's role in conducting medication reviews across various contexts. Learning outcomes: L01, L02, L03, L04, L05 |
Tutorial |
Integrated patient cases Tutorial participants will work in teams to apply skills and knowledge to complex cases, to identify medication-related problems and their clinical justifications, evaluate and critique the literature to propose an evidence-based and patient centred treatment options that considers both pharmacological and non-pharmacological alternatives. Participants will also be expected to communicate their recommendations appropriately to the doctor, and discuss the role of other key health professionals in the care of the patient in the case. Tutorials are three hours in duration. Tutorials will be held in real time in person at UQ Dutton Park. Information about the exact location where the tutorials will be held will be posted on Learn.UQ (Blackboard). The cases will teach you how to: · Apply all your years of learning to patient scenarios · Apply evidence-based medicine to guide treatment recommendations · Develop skills necessary to practice clinical pharmacy · Manage realistic patients with multiple comorbidities · Work with patients so that they can achieve their desired health goals More importantly, these patient cases will help to prepare you for your workplaces during internship and beyond. Learning outcomes: L01, L02, L03, L04, L05, L06 |
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Case-based learning |
Grand round presentations Throughout the semester, you will have access to pre-recorded grand round presentations on various clinical topics. These presentations will follow a format similar to the integrated cases we use in our weekly tutorials. Reviewing these cases before attending the tutorials will help you better understand the expectations and activities. Learning outcomes: L01, L02, L03, L04, L05, L06 |
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Tutorial |
Medication dispensing Students will demonstrate their dispensing and checking competencies through MyDispense which can be accessed during and after tutorials. Learning outcomes: L07 |
Policies and procedures
University policies and procedures apply to all aspects of student life. As a UQ student, you must comply with University-wide and program-specific requirements, including the:
- Student Code of Conduct Policy
- Student Integrity and Misconduct Policy and Procedure
- Assessment Procedure
- Examinations Procedure
- Reasonable Adjustments - Students Policy and Procedure
Learn more about UQ policies on my.UQ and the Policy and Procedure Library.