Monash University Offers Postgraduate Prescribing Education For Victoria's Pharmacists

Study in Australia: The Monash University prescribing course enrolments will start from January 2026.

Monash University is working towards offering postgraduate prescribing education for Pharmacists in Victoria. The university will be the first one in the region to offer it.

This comes at a time when the Victorian government has announced funding of $18 million for pharmacists who have completed the postgraduate training, so that they will be able to prescribe treatment for 22 health conditions, including nausea, asthma, dermatitis, ear infections, and type 2 diabetes.

While commenting on this, Director of Experiential Development and Graduate Education (EDGE) at FPPS, Associate Professor Steven Walker, said, "The move from the government to expand the scope of practice for pharmacists is a welcome and appropriate development for the pharmacy profession in Victoria. As the medicine experts, pharmacists are well-positioned to make person-centred prescribing decisions, which ultimately benefits patients."

“Education is central to expanding the conditions pharmacists can treat. As a world leader in pharmacy education, Monash University is well placed to deliver comprehensive post-graduate education to support pharmacists to take on this prescribing role. We’re currently working with healthcare colleagues across the University to design a course that will allow pharmacists to make collaborative, person-centred and safe prescribing decisions that support patient care and quality use of medicines," added Steven Walker.

Professor Claire Palermo, Deputy Dean (Education) for Monash’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS), said, "The FPPS-MNHS long-standing partnership lends itself to designing thorough interdisciplinary education programs for professionals looking to upskill. Monash has extensive experience in designing and implementing high-quality education to prepare nearly all prescribing professions for practice. Additionally, the University’s medicine and pharmacy educators have collaborated on interprofessional education for many years and we very much look forward to continuing this partnership in light of the decision to enable pharmacists to prescribe."

Monash University Postgraduate Prescribing Education Details

Under the government's funding, the pharmacist consultation fees for the expanded program will be provided by the government, so that the patients can get the healthcare without paying any out-of-pocket cost. Such a service is a first in Australia.

Monash University’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FPPS) will collaborate with the university's strong network of experts to design the prescribing course.

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