This unit aims to provide students with fundamental knowledge, skills and resources to interact with patients and other health care professionals to effect positive therapeutic outcomes. The unit focuses on definition, development and refinement of communication skills for pharmacists in all aspects of professional practice. This professional practice is defined in terms of the expectations and structure of the Australian Health Care System and in context of global approaches to health.Students will develop an understanding of: effective communication with patients and prescribers; health literacy; the problems of medication non-adherence and means of overcoming them; the role of the... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Safeera Hussainy (Parkville); Dr Shaun Lee Wen Huey (Sunway)
Prerequisites: PAC1311 Pharmacy, health and society I<br/>PAC1322 Pharmacy, health and society II