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Dr Geoff March

Position: Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice
Division/Portfolio: Division of Health Sciences
School/Unit: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
Campus: City East Campus
Office: P4-33
Telephone: +61 8 830 22635
Fax: +61 8 830 22389
Email: Geoff_dot_March_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Geoff.March


I am a member of the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences

I am a member of the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, Sansom Institute



Pharmacist Branch, APESMA (PDA)


Teaching interests

  • Pharmacy Practice
  • Development, implementation and evaluation of pharmacy models of practice
  • Developing quality indicators for pharmacy student experiental placements

I teach the following courses

PHAR 1006Pharmacy Practice 1A
PHAR 1007Pharmacy Practice 1B
PHAR 4022Professional Practice 400
PHAR 4013Applied Pharmacotherapeutics 401 - Professional Practice
PHAR 3004Pharmaceutics 300
HLTH 1025Health and Society


Professional associations

Pharmacist Division, APESMA (PDA)

APSA


Qualifications

PhD

B.Pharm


Research interests

  • Implementing and evaluation of changes in community pharmacy practice, especially around Pharmaceutical Care
  • Developing qulaity indicators around student experiential palcements

Research publications

Stupans I, Elliot EE, March GJ. Pharmacy Students’ English Language Skill Development: are we heading in the right direction? Pharmacy Education 2009 ;9 (1): http://pharmacyeducation.fip.org/2009/05/pharmacy-students%e2%80%99-english-language-skill-development-are-we-heading-in-the-right-direction/

Vitry A, Gilbert A, Mott K, Rao, March G. Provision of medicines information in Australian community pharmacies. Pharmacy World and Science 2009; DOI 10.1007/s11096-009-9287-y at http://www.springerlink.com/content/j6l166m703610185/fulltext.pdf

Stupans I, Rao D, March GJ and Elliot EE. English Language Communication Skills- what are the issues for International Pharmacy students? People and Place 2008;16(2):62-70

Owen SM, March G. Australian pharmacy school experiential learning placements: Nurturing interactive professionals through comprehensive planning and scaffolding for improved communication. J Pharm Pract Res 2008;38:121-125

Kralik D, Visentin K, March G, Anderson B, Gilbert A, Boyce M. Medication management for community dwelling older people with dementia and chronic illness. Australian Journal of Primary Care 2008 14(1):25-35

Nguyen, A, Yu K, Shakib S, Doecke CJ, Boyce M, March G, Anderson B, Gilbert AL, Angley M. Classification of findings in the Home Medicines Reviews of Post-Discharge Patients at risk of Medication Misadventure. J Pharm Pract Res 2007;37(2):111-114

Yu K, Nguyen A, Shakib, S, Doecke C, Boyce M, March G, Anderson B, Gilbert A, Angley M. Enhancing continuity of care in therapeutics: development of a post-discharge home medicines review model. J Pharm Prac Res, 2007; 37(1):22-26.

Mott K, Eltridge F, Gilbert AL, Vitry A, Rao D, March G, Anderson B, Wade T, Weir D, Lawson T. Consumer Experiences, Needs and Expectations of Community Pharmacy Final report for the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Canberra. 2005

Stupans I, Angley MT, March G, Soulsby N. Graduate Qualities: Exploring problem solving in the applied pharmacotherapeutics curriculum at the University of South Australia. Pharmacy Education 2005; 5(3/4):261-265

Stupans I, March G. Use of online delivery including CaptureCam-PRO in teaching Applied Pharmacotherapeutics courses in the Pharmacy program Sydney:Uniserve Science Blended Learning Symposium 2005 http//science.uniserve.edu.au/pubbs/procs/wshop10/index html

Nayda R, March GJ. Pharmacists and child protection: Australian policies and protocols. Aust Pharm 2003;22(11):824-828

March G, Annells M, Koch T. Older people, constipation and laxative use: Management implications. J Soc Admin Pharm 2002;19(5):190-198

March G, Gilbert A, Roughead E, Quintrell N. Developing and evaluating a model for pharmaceutical care in Australian community pharmacies. Int J Pharm Pract. 1999;7:220-229

Donato R, March G, Moss J, Gilbert A. Cost implications of the delivery of pharmaceutical care services through Australian community pharmacies. Int J Pharm Pract 2001;9:23-30

Angley MT, Gilbert AL, March GJ, Edgecombe SM, Hocking PN. Medication Management Model. Aust Pharm 1997;16(7):415-418

G March, A Gilbert, N Quintrell, M Angley, P Hocking, S Edgecombe. Health economic analysis of the Best Practice Models Project. Proc. Aust Soc Clin Exp Pharmacol Toxicol 1998;5:73

March G, Gilbert A, Hocking P, Edgecombe S, Quintrell N and Angley M. Community pharmacy model practices project: analysis of practice. APSA conference proceedings, 1997:12

March GJ, Gilbert AL, Angley MT, Edgecombe SM, Hocking PN, Gilbert H. Diabetes Care Model: Pharmaceutical Care Services for People with Diabetes. Aust Pharm 1997;16(3):156-158

Angley MT, Gilbert AL, March GJ, Edgecombe SM, Hocking PN. Community Pharmacy Model Practices Project. Aust Pharm 1997;16(1):40-44

Stewart S, Davey M, DeSanctis M, March G, Hooper J, Pearson S, Luke C. Home Medication Management: A Study of Patient Post-Hospitalisation. Aust Pharm 1995;14(8):472-476


Community Service

Organisation Name:   APESMA
Section:   Pharmacist Divison (PDA)
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Organisation URL:   http://www.apesma.asn.au
Level of involvement:   National President
Year from:   2005
Year to:   2009


Research Degree Supervisor

I worked for twenty years on community pharmacy practice before entering academia. My particluar interest is developing, implementing and evaluatiing changes in practice that improves care for people. In addition, lecturing has allowed me to extend my research interest into pharmacy education.




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