the Monash University Pharmacy Intern Foundation Program (IFP) is an innovative postgraduate education program for intern pharmacists designed to recognise, support and enhance workplace learning.
The program maximises the benefits of the intern year through structured workplace learning. Interns receive academic credit for work-integrated learning activities (tasks they would normally be undertaking in the workplace) and receive structured feedback from a Monash Credentialed Clinical Educator. Monash University offers free accredited CPD for preceptors to assist them in undertaking their supervisory role.
IFP will become increasingly important for workplaces from 2021, when the first cohort of students from the new Monash Pharmacy course, the BPharm (Hons)/MPharm, commence their intern year.
To meet the requirements of the MPharm, students must undertake the ITP and IFP concurrently during their internship.
Monash University also credentials workplaces and provides additional resources such as bespoke workplace learning plans, and tools for preceptors to use when providing intern feedback. The ability to offer the IFP to enable interns to complete an MPharm will make credentialed workplaces highly sought after.
For more information: Pharmacy-IFP.Enquiries@monash.edu.
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