PRIDA facilitates online tutorials to support pharmacists in the Pacific region to gain clinical pharmacy skills, particularly around antimicrobials, and to increase their confidence in providing pharmaceutical care. The event calendar has the session dates.
Pacific Island pharmacists from across the Pacific region are invited to attend these online tutorials. The sessions will be led by pharmacists from Australia and other guests. Access is free.
The topics for tutorials will be decided by what people are interested in learning about – so please feel free to suggest topics to the coordinator
Zoom link (all sessions) Note: please make sure that your name is displayed against your zoom login.
Time: AEST 1 to 2 pm
Timor-Leste 12 to 1 pm
PNG 1 to 2 pm
Solomons & Vanuatu 2 to 3 pm
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands & Tuvalu 3 to 4 pm
Schedule 2024
| Date and time | Topic | Presenter |
| Wednesday 25 September |
Resources refresher | Mieke Hutchison-Kern Pharmacist Therapeutic Guidelines |
| Wednesday 2 October |
Micro lab – specimen processing, antibiotic susceptibility testing and interpretation | Wendy Jackson Medical Scientist PRIDA |
| Wednesday 23 October |
Antimicrobials | Marian Youssef Antimicrobial Stewardship & Critical Care Medicine Pharmacist Sutherland Hospital, NSW |
| Wednesday 30 October |
Common infections and empirical treatment | Marian Youssef Antimicrobial Stewardship & Critical Care Medicine Pharmacist Sutherland Hospital, NSW |
| Wednesday 13 November |
Sepsis and septic shock (focussing on ICU treatment) | Amy Legg Pharmacist research fellow, Department of Pharmacy, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital |
| Wednesday 27 November |
CNS infections | Amy Legg Pharmacist research fellow, Department of Pharmacy, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital |
