UTS scholarships
October 22, 2015
The University of Technology
Sydney’s Graduate School of Health
has launched a new program
seeking funding for scholarships,
as part of a strategy to attract the
“best and brightest” to pharmacy.
Speaking last night at the UTS
Pharmacy Innovative Pharmacist
Awards (see page 2), the school’s
head Charlie Benrimoj confirmed
several scholarships had already
been secured, with an eventual
target of about 20 “high academic,
practice based” students annually.
Benrimoj outlined UTS
Pharmacy’s strategic positioning,
with the school only offering a
graduate-entry MPharm program
because that is becoming the
minimum standard for pharmacists
around the world.
“We want people who truly
want to become pharmacists,” he
said, with the innovative program
already offering segments with
a firm eye to the future such as
vaccination and a seven week
course in pharmacist prescribing -
plus new international options.
Benrimoj revealed figures
confirming 57% of UTS pharmacy
graduates ended up in community
pharmacy last year, while 30% went
to hospital pharmacy and 11% into
research.
As well as the scholarship
program, UTS Pharmacy is building
links with organisations such as
Blackmores as well as developing
possible hospital fellowships for
pharmacists, Benrimoj confirmed.
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