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Address Street: |
Churchill Avenue, Sandy Bay, Tas, 7005 |
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Address Postal: |
Private Bag 26, Hobart, Tas, 7001 |
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Telephone: |
(03) 6226 2190 |
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International 0011 61 3 6226 2190 |
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School Fax: |
(03) 6226 2870 |
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International 0015 61 3 6226 2870 |
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UMORE Fax: |
(03) 6226 7627 |
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International 0015 61 3 6226 7627 |
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Email: |
pharmacy@utas.edu.au |
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The
University
of Tasmania is both one
of Australia's oldest and newest universities. Founded in Hobart
in 1890 it was only the fourth university in colonial Australia.
In 1991 it merged with the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology
in Launceston to form the new University of Tasmania. The University
has two major campuses (maps),
in Hobart and Launceston. The new North-West Centre in Burnie
serves the north-west region.
The
Tasmanian School of Pharmacy is located at the Sandy Bay campus
in Hobart
(with a population of 180,000, Hobart is the State's capital city).
Clinical teaching is based at the Royal Hobart, Launceston General
and the Northwest Regional hospitals and at various community
pharmacy sites. The University's campus is set on one hundred
hectares at Sandy Bay, not far from the city centre and on the
River Derwent.
The
campus offers students a range of excellent facilities. The Student
Union Building has a refectory, bookshop, activities centres,
a bar and computer facilities. Student Counselling, careers advice,
welfare services and child-care are also available, and recreational
resources include gymnasium, squash courts, tennis and sports
fields.
The
Tasmanian School of Pharmacy provides education in pharmacy and
related sciences from undergraduate
to doctoral level, conducts research
programs and acts as a centre of drug expertise for the Tasmanian
community. On 14 June 2008 the Deputy Premier and Minister for Health, Lara Giddings MP, officially opened a three story extension for the School, which now houses academic and research staff and students and the expanding research unit: UMORE (the
Unit for Medication Outcomes Research and Education) .
There are ten unit coordinator academic staff,
two of whom have joint appointments with a teaching hospital,
and three School administrative and technical support staff,
with a large number of research and project specific administrative assistants.
The school has developed a strong clinical emphasis in its teaching
and research programs, supported by honorary clinical teachers
in hospital and community pharmacies throughout the state.
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