THE Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Victoria's Monash University has launched a new organisational unit focused on workplace learning and strengthening the connections between education and practice.
The Experiential Development and Graduate Education (EDGE) unit will be led by Associate Professor Kirstie Galbraith (pictured) who is an international expert in practitioner development.
EDGE aims to improve links across all experiential programs at the faculty, covering all points in the practitioner development pathway.
Monash said EDGE would recognise the importance of lifelong learning by bridging activity between the faculty's new undergraduate pharmacy degree and its graduate programs such as the Intern Training Program, Intern Foundation Program and the Master of Clinical Pharmacy.
"EDGE is designed to cater to the changing reality of the pharmacy workforce, and better reflect the nexus between experiential development, education and ongoing practitioner development," Galbraith said.
The new unit has partly been developed in response to the new Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons)/Master of Pharmacy course, of which a key feature is "early and enhanced experiential training".
It also reflects recent initiatives by the International Pharmaceutical Federation, which last year ratified 13 global Pharmaceutical Workforce Development Goals - five of which specifically focus on developing the pharmacy workforce.
To register interest in EDGE email pharm.EDGE@monash.edu.
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