Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Medicine / Master of Pharmacy

This five-year program provides unmatched experiential learning opportunities, where you can explore the range of career paths on offer within the pharmacy profession. Your hands-on training starts in year one, giving you time to learn, explore and develop as a healthcare professional.

This structure allows for more extensive and a greater breadth of practical training to ensure you become a competent, well-rounded practitioner. You'll have the opportunity to undertake experiential learning activities in a range of urban, rural, community, hospital and industry settings. When you graduate, you’ll be highly skilled, adaptable and able to apply the knowledge you've gained with confidence.

• You'll complete professional placements throughout your degree, which give you the opportunity to apply what you learn into practice.
• In your fifth year, you'll complete a placement in a rural/remote area to gain first-hand experience practicing in these locations. 
• Your placements will equip you with the practical experience you need to become an independent practitioner. This hands-on training also ensures that you're well prepared for your intern year.

Best practice healthcare requires a high level of collaboration among professionals from different disciplines. This degree has an embedded professional practice stream, where you’ll learn with students from our dietetics and food innovation, physiotherapy and exercise physiology programs.

The stream provides an opportunity to start building connections with your future health colleagues and mirrors real-world practice, where professionals work in integrated healthcare teams. You’ll gain an understanding of how different teams work together to improve individual health outcomes, such as how and when to refer a patient to another health professional. Our professional practice stream includes seven courses, which will teach you critical interprofessional skills in:

• professionalism and communication
• teamwork and collaboration
• evidence-based and value-based healthcare
• ethics and law
• leadership and business management skills
• innovation and entrepreneurship
• advocacy
• investigation and creative problem-solving

If you're interested in owning a community pharmacy or managing a health service, we offer courses that develop your management, leadership and entrepreneurial skills. In year five, you'll complete a health management course as part of the professional practice stream. In addition to this, you can also take a course in pharmacy management to learn the economics of running a community pharmacy.

We have connections with some of Australia’s best hospitals, private practices, health organisations and the pharmaceutical industry. In the first year of the program, you’ll attend a networking event, which will introduce you to the profession and welcome you to our healthcare community. You'll have contact with industry professionals throughout your degree, giving you the opportunity to grow your professional network while you study and gain a head start in your career.

As one of the world's top medical schools*, we're creating the health leaders of tomorrow. Our diverse community of students, educators, clinicians and researchers are working together to tackle the world's most pressing health challenges. 

While this is a new program, we've been teaching the pharmaceutical science and medicinal chemistry elements of pharmacy for many years. This degree builds on our existing expertise in these disciplines.

Our internationally recognised research centres and institutes are translating ground-breaking research into cures, treatment strategies and therapies. This degree offers research opportunities to develop your investigative skills and provide a pathway if you want to pursue a career in research. You’ll gain a strong understanding of research methods and the application of research to practice. The principles of evidence-based practice and value-based care will inform your clinical decisions. 

^{*Ranked 54th globally according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024}

This degree allows you to tailor your study to your career goals. In your final year, you can choose from the following pathways: research, pharmacy and health management, public health or a study abroad program. 

Our smaller class sizes also allow for a more personalised learning experience. With a cohort of approximately 80-100 students, you'll have close engagement with your teachers and peers.

We're building a community of empathetic healthcare practitioners that are equipped to work with diverse populations. Our professional practice stream provides training in mental health, cultural safety and advocacy to ensure you can provide all people with the care they need. 

We work closely with industry to ensure this degree aligns with industry needs, both in contemporary and future practice. As you move through the program, you'll learn how to apply the science of pharmacy to clinical problems, with clinical placements and simulation experiences reinforcing your learning.

UNSW Medicine & Health offers a diverse range of facilities across our Kensington campus, rural and metropolitan teaching hospitals and our world-class research centres and institutes. You’ll be learning in our new simulation pharmacies and compounding laboratories.

The UNSW Health Translation Hub (UNSW HTH), which will soon form part of the wider Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct, reflects our commitment to transforming healthcare. The UNSW HTH will integrate health education, training and research with healthcare services to drive improvements in patient care and health outcomes. Through the UNSW HTH, you’ll have opportunities to work in interprofessional clinics and pursue research interests.