PHA762: Pharmacy Business Management

Introduces pharmacy students to areas of business activity, which may be useful to help cope with their chosen work environment. The unit considers business structures and the legal environment, basic concepts of marketing, organisational and personnel behaviour, financial reporting and analysis and cost-effective medication consumption. Business planning, sources of information, and intellectual property including patents of drugs and the process of protecting new inventions, will also be covered. Ethics, as relates to business management practices and good corporate governance.

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Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: T2-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 2 hours per week; tutorials: 2 hours per week.
Prerequisites	Enrolment in the Master of Pharmacy; Completion of 1st Year of Master of Pharmacy; PHA744 Pharmacy Practice IV.
School	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Unit Coordinator	Mr John Forster Position: P/T Teaching Casual E-mail: J.Forster@murdoch.edu.au Location: Phone: Prefix: +618
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Mr John Forster (J.Forster@murdoch.edu.au) MURDOCH T2: Internal (26/04/2010 - 30/07/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)