Clinical Pharmacy

Postgraduate

In Keele

£ 4,200 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Keele

  • Start date

    Different dates available

In the fast changing world of pharmacy and healthcare provision, standing still is not an option, but you may, understandably, feel under-equipped to meet these new challenges
Let Keele help you meet the challenges set by the Government's initiatives for the profession
In addition, the requirements for pharmacists to demonstrate their commitment to continual professional development is as strong as ever and is reflected in the General Pharmaceutical Council’s announcements regarding the assurance of the continual fitness to practice of pharmacists

Our Clinical Pharmacy Programme for hospital pharmacists was first established in 1981 and we are proud of our high completion rate
Our distance learning programme in Clinical Pharmacy for hospital pharmacists aims to provide you with a wider view of health care, and equip you with sufficient knowledge, skills and confidence to be able to develop and extend your clinical and professional role as part of a multidisciplinary health care team
The programme links to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Advanced Pharmacy Framework to enable you to meet the relevant competencies and provide evidence for your continued professional development

The Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning (previously known as Department of Medicines Management), is part of the School of Pharmacy at Keele University and has a reputation for providing stimulating educational programmes for pharmacists

We are closely in touch with current hospital practice, through our advisors and are continually updating the programme to meet the changing requirements of the health service and individual practitioners
The programme is highly acclaimed by students, employers, purchasers and external course assessors for its structure, content and end value in relation to service, professional and career development

Facilities

Location

Start date

Keele (Staffordshire)
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Keele University, ST5 5BG

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), or equivalent for pharmacists working overseas, and be practising either full-time or part-time within the hospital sector. We recommend that applicants should, normally, have worked in a hospital pharmacy setting for 6-12 months prior to commencing the Course so that they have gained some experience of working in this sector. Applicants who wish to study on our fixed pathway programme must be working at a hospital that can provide a Clinical Co-ordinator to support you in the workplace. Further details of...

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Subjects

  • Clinical Pharmacy
  • Healthcare

Course programme

The Clinical Pharmacy programme can be completed via the following flexible pathways to accumulate academic credits at Masters Level:
CPD Plus+ – register for individual short courses of 10 credits. You can register on a number of occasions in any academic year. Completing 6 CPD Plus+ courses will provide the postgraduate Certificate award and 12 courses the Diploma award.
CPD Plus+ Open Learn – provides opportunity to negotiate some or all of the content and learning outcomes to meet your specific needs (available as 10, 15 and 30-credit modules)
Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy – register for 9 months and you’ll complete your choice of 6 of the optional modules from our CPD Plus+ portfolio.
Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy – register for 21 months and in the first year you will complete the 6 modules as described for the Certificate and an additional 6 modules of your choice in Year 2.
Professional MSc – Building on the Diploma course students study a further three modules: Research Methods (15 credits), Advanced Practice Development (15 credits) and Independent Learning Project (30 credits)
The CPD Plus+ short courses that are currently available, and which also form the course content for Certificate and Diploma courses are:
Cardiovascular Disease 1
Cardiovascular Disease 2
Central Nervous System Diseases
Critical Care and Parenteral Nutrition
Education Theory and Practice for Health Professionals (includes two f2f study days)
Endocrine Disease
Gastrointestinal Disease
Hepatic Disease
HIV & AIDS
Infections
Joint Disease
Malignant Disease
Medicines Optimisation and Patient Centred Care
Mental Health
Monitoring Therapy
Neonatal and Child Health
Personal Effectiveness and Collaborative Working
Quality in Healthcare & Evidence-Based Practice (includes Critical Appraisal)
Renal Disease
Respiratory Disease
Surgical

Additional information

We are happy to put you in touch with some of our former students for their independent view To support health professionals in their own professional development the School of Pharmacy have developed a variety of CPD Plus+ and CPD Plus+ Open Learn modules which are available as 10, 15 and 30 credit modules Course participants may choose to study one module only as a ‘stand alone’ course or choose different pathways to reach the awards of Certificate, Diploma and Masters This gives health professionals choice and flexibility to meet their own specific professional development needs and to advance their professional practice The distance learning format of the courses enables busy health professionals to study where and when it is most convenient to them

Clinical Pharmacy

£ 4,200 + VAT