“We know that a lot of the people who are going to come into the course are people who haven’t studied for a number of years,” UWA course director Amy Page told the AJP’s podcast host Carlene McMaugh. 

“So, we’re not wanting to test them on their ability to write an essay or to reference because we know that a lot of the time when people go back to uni after a number of years, they spend just as much time trying to work out how to use the referencing software as they do learning the content,” she added. 

“So we’ve designed all of our assessments to be authentic assessments; they’re around how to deliver a consultation or how to write a report or how to do your documentation. They’re not around how to do

To deliver on its aims, course designers engaged a number of different disciplines. 

“In our medication management review and aged care course, it’s being written not only by pharmacists,

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