Graduate Pharmacist

The Bachelor of Pharmacy ends at four years. The career does not begin for another twelve months. Pharmacy is the only Australian undergraduate health degree where the new graduate cannot practise the day after graduation. After the four year Bachelor from a university like Sydney, Monash, Curtin or the University of Queensland, the new graduate enters an accredited intern training program. One thousand five hundred and seventy five hours of supervised practice across a calendar year. Then two formal exams. A written paper with the Pharmacy Council, and an oral with the Pharmacy Board, before Apra grants full registration. The intern year runs across the dispensary, clinical rotations and ward time. Dispensing a script for atorvastatin forty milligrams and counselling the patient on side effects.