Professional Msc (Pharmacy)

The Masters year course is common to all School of Pharmacy’s principal postgraduate programmes, i
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Community Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy (secondary care), Prescribing Studies and Advanced Professional Practice


The Masters year was re-structured in 2007 to take into account a number of factors affecting education and professional role development for health professionals to embody an emphasis on the researching professional as a reflective practitioner
It is categorized by the University as a Professional MSc that is grounded in an individual’s professional practice
It will enable you to focus on an area of interest to you so that you can develop a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of this at an advanced level and apply your learning to develop your professional practice/services through scholarship, research and enquiry that will, in parallel, enable you to achieve the standards for a Masters degree


Entry to the Masters year requires satisfactory completion of a postgraduate Diploma award that is associated with one of the relevant Keele programmes, or an ‘equivalent’ postgraduate Diploma award from another university
Candidates who wish to gain direct entry after having completed a Diploma at another university will have to provide full details of the syllabus covered/assessment strategy for consideration with their application to Keele


The title of the final MSc award will depend on the entry route, for example, students entering the MSc year with a Diploma in Community Pharmacy will graduate, upon successful completion of the year, with a Master's in Community Pharmacy
This principle applies for all our postgraduate programmes i
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