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Winning of Australian Pharmacy Degrees – A Retrospect
Author(s) -
Newgreen David B
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy practice and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2055-2335
pISSN - 1445-937X
DOI - 10.1002/j.2055-2335.2009.tb00455.x
Subject(s) - pharmacy , medicine , project commissioning , publishing , optometry , politics , medical education , family medicine , political science , law
The 1960s and 70s were testing times for Australian pharmacy schools and were characterised by poor resources and infrastructure, and political and academic intransigence, which varied in intensity across the country. The South Australian and Victorian stories were the most complicated, followed by Tasmania and Western Australia. In New South Wales, the pharmacy school was in the university while in Queensland, the upgrading and transfer of the course from a technical college to the University of Queensland was at the university's behest. This paper chronicles the events leading up to the granting of pharmacy degrees in Australia.