Australia Pharmacist

To become a registered pharmacist: According to the registration requirements of the APC (Australian Pharmacists Association): To become a registered pharmacist, you must complete an undergraduate or master's certification course and complete 2,000 hours of post-graduation internship (about one year of internship time ). and passed the Pharmacist Examination (APEC). Pharmacy

Examining Committee (APEC) examination is divided into two stages. The first stage is mainly a multiple-choice examination, and the second stage has written examination, laboratory and oral examination. APEC examinations are held in March and September every year. After becoming a registered pharmacist, the income is considerable, and the income will be higher with increasing experience. The current average annual income is 100,000 Australian dollars per year.

From an immigration perspective, applicants must complete an academic program certified by APC (Australian Pharmacists Association) and obtain a degree, take the pharmacist APEC examination, and pass the first stage, that is, pass In the multiple-choice test part of the APEC exam, IELTS requirements are relatively high. Category A (academic) IELTS needs to reach 7.5 points, with no less than 7 points in each item.

According to the last update of the Australian APC official website on December 8, 2010, among the 39 universities in Australia, 12 universities have fully certified pharmacy undergraduate courses at the undergraduate level, and 6 universities have pharmacy undergraduate courses. The master's degree program is partially accredited. Currently, there are nearly 5,000 students majoring in pharmacy in these dozen Australian universities, of which about 20 are overseas students. Only those universities certified by APC have completed a four-year undergraduate course in pharmaceutical sciences or two years. It is possible to obtain Australian pharmacist qualifications only by taking a master's degree in pharmaceutical sciences.

The main universities that offer a 4-year undergraduate degree in pharmaceutical sciences are:

The University of Sydney, Monash University, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, University of South Australia, Curtin University of Technology, Towers Smania University, Griffith University, La Trobe University, Charles Darwin University, University of Charleston, James Cook University

The main universities that offer a 2-year master's degree in pharmaceutical sciences are:

The University of Sydney, the University of Western Australia, the University of Newcastle, Murdoch University, the University of South Australia, and the University of Canberra.

To sum up, if you graduate from the above-mentioned 12 universities with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, or graduate from the above-mentioned 6 universities with a master’s degree in pharmacy, you can pass the APEC examination and become an Australian registered pharmacist after one year of internship, and more and more people Countries have recognized the equal validity of Australian qualifications, so the profession of pharmacist is subject to fewer and fewer national restrictions.

Pharmacy is a very popular major in Australia. Pharmacists in Australia mainly work in hospital pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, retail drug stores, and government departments. Their job responsibilities include: Pharmacists working in pharmacies mainly prepare prescriptions for customers who come to get medicines, and explain to customers how to take them and other related matters; pharmacists working in pharmaceutical factories are engaged in research, development, and participate in the production of pharmaceutical products. Production, responsible for medical school experiments of new drug products, production quality monitoring of new drugs, and a series of other tasks.

The job responsibilities of a pharmacist (Pharmacist) are basically the same as those of domestic pharmacists, and the income is relatively high. The salary of the internship stage after graduation is about 33,000 Australian dollars a year. After completing the internship and passing the pharmacist exam , the salary is about 66,000 Australian dollars per year. As experience continues to accumulate, pharmacists' salaries will increase. According to data from the Australian Pharmacists Association, the current average annual salary of registered pharmacists is close to AU$100,000, which is twice as high as the average annual salary of accountants, which is about AU$50,000.

Pharmacists are currently in shortage in Australia. About 1,200 students graduate from pharmacy majors every year. By 2020, Australia will face a shortage of 10,000 pharmacists. From an immigration perspective, the pharmacist major is on the CSL (Australian Skilled Migration Priority Occupation List) priority occupation list. It has a maximum score of 60 points in the Australian immigration scoring system, and professional immigration applications can be approved with priority. Precisely because of its advantages in employment and immigration, it has always attracted the attention of many overseas students, including Chinese students.