Graduates of the postgraduate diploma will be able to:

• Ensure the safe, effective and economic use of medicines for both individual patients and patient groups
• Design, implement and optimise pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients in a broad range of therapeutic areas
• Manage the pharmaceutical care of patients with complex clinical needs
• Develop specialised knowledge of medicines use in areas of clinical interest, including advanced medicines management

This programme has been designed to allow students living anywhere in New Zealand to enrol, as most of the material will be presented online (supplemented by face-to-face weekend workshops for some courses).

You must have completed an undergraduate degree in pharmacy at a recognised university (or similar institution).

International applicants must also be currently registered as a pharmacist with the New Zealand Pharmacy Council and domestic applicants must either be enrolled in the New Zealand pharmacist pre-registration programme or currently registered as a pharmacist with the New Zealand Pharmacy Council.