Clinical Pharmacy via Study Centres MSc
Postgraduate Certificate / Master's Degree
The total service fee for this program:
€ 499
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€ 99
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ABOUT
Future proof your role as a pharmacist. Learn through an innovative and flexible teaching style. Build on current knowledge and experience and extend your professional development.
Overview
This course is taught at our quality-assured partners worldwide and will provide the additional postgraduate qualification you need to progress in your field. You will cover principles of clinical pharmacy and a range of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular, respiratory, and palliative care.
This course will challenge you, through an innovative and flexible teaching style, to be the best pharmacist for you and your patients. It provides you with an approach to practice, building on existing knowledge and experiences to extend your personal and professional development.
The course has been developed by healthcare professionals and academics to reflect the most up-to-date and relevant areas to a pharmacist’s practice. You will cover principles of clinical pharmacy and a range of therapeutic areas.
Please contact your Study Centre for the duration and mode of this course.
Why us?
- Research in Pharmacy at Sunderland has been described as ‘world-leading’ according to the latest Research Excellence Framework
- Pharmacy has been taught at Sunderland for nearly 100 years
- Part-time innovative and flexible MSc Clinical Pharmacy course design
- Blended learning approach with the use of Canvas, the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and three taught conference days across the academic year
- Interactive, online learning materials including self-check quizzes, video presentations, applied case-based scenarios, ‘ask a question’ and much more
- The taught conference teaching is delivered on campus by experienced academic practitioners, specialist advanced clinical pharmacists in practice and other members of the healthcare team, including consultants and registrars, GPs and specialist nurses
Course structure
The course is delivered through a blended learning approach. A strong focus is on the interactive distance-learning material, which you can work through at a time convenient to you.
Teaching is delivered through online lectures, expert interviews, directed reading, case-based scenarios, research, tutorials and online tutor support. Content is divided into bite-sized chunks so even in a short amount of time you could cover a specific area, self-check your knowledge in a quiz, watch an expert consult or watch a video.
In addition to online teaching you will have the opportunity to attend conference days. You will be taught by experienced academic pharmacists working in current practice, highly specialist advanced clinical pharmacist practitioners, medical consultants and many other healthcare professionals.
Assessments include written/online examinations, a work-based portfolio mapped to the RPS pharmacy frameworks, and written coursework.
The suite of modules running over the academic year allow you to manage your own time and give you flexibility of when you study across the module time period.
Compared to an undergraduate course, you will find that this Masters requires a higher level of independent working.
Modules on this course include:
Stage 1
- Clinical Decision Making and Stages of Care (20 credits)
Develop and rationalise your clinical decision making skills as a pharmacist practitioner. Learn how to interpret and consider all relevant information in the context of the patient, including medicines optimisation. Develop your underpinning knowledge as a pharmacist for effective clinical decisions for better patient outcomes
- Patient Safety (20 credits)
Learn about patient safety looking at medicines-related risk, prescribing of high-risk medicines, monitoring requirements of specific drugs, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) and the application of advanced pharmaceutical calculations in practice. Understand how care providers identify and quantify clinical risk. Understand processes of risk assessment and management from an organisational perspective, encapsulating theoretical models of risk in addition to the ethical and legal issues surrounding adverse events.
- Evidence Based Medicine (10 credits)
Get an introduction to the concepts of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice and the processes involved in applying this into everyday practice. Learn how to undertake a literature review using major healthcare and specific databases. Understand the concepts of the hierarchy of medical/scientific data and its relevance within medical practice.
- Clinical Investigation and Diagnostics (10 credits)
Build upon the general biochemical data obtained from patients and look at specific markers for a number of different conditions, for example, pancreatitis. Explore the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests. Develop your ability to critically analyse investigations and formulate management plans to monitor disease states and drug therapies, taking into consideration medicines optimisation.
Career ready
We encourage you to plan your future contributions with your employer and how your career will progress. On completing this postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, you will be equipped with the advanced skills and knowledge specifically needed for progression into various senior pharmacist roles.
If English is not your first language you should have at least one of the following qualifications (or equivalent) as a minimum.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
You need an overall score of 6.0, with at least 5.5 or higher in each component: reading, writing, listening and speaking. An alternative approved Secure English Language Test (SELT) will also be accepted if the applicant’s element scores are equivalent to those required for IELTS. After 6 April 2015, you must take your IELTS exams at one of the test centres listed on the UKVI website.
Pearson Test of English Academic
You need an overall score of 59 with no less than 59 in each skill.
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)
You need grade C or above.
Cambridge Certification in Advanced English (CAE)
You need grade C or above.
Deadlines
26 January 2022 – UCAS deadline
Applications for all UCAS Undergraduate courses, except those with a 15 October deadline, should arrive at UCAS by 6pm on 26 January 2022. This is the ‘equal consideration’ deadline, which means course providers must consider all applications received by this time equally.
25 February 2022 – UCAS Extra opens
If you’ve used all five choices, and you’re not holding any offers, you can add another choice using Extra.
19 May 2022 – University decision deadline
If you applied by 26 January and you’re still awaiting a decision from one of your choices, we have until today to decide whether we’re making you an offer. Any choices that are still outstanding after this will be made unsuccessful.
9 June 2022 – Deadline to reply to offers
If you receive all your university decisions by 19 May, you must reply to any offers by today (except if you are using Extra to find a place), otherwise they’ll be declined.
30 June 2022 – Final day to make an application to five universities
You can still apply with up to five choices until 6pm today. After this, your application will automatically be entered into Clearing.
4 July 2022 – Final day to apply for a course in Extra
This is the last day to add an Extra option to your 2022 application. If you don’t hold any offers after this, you will be able to add an additional choice using Clearing.
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accommodation
The university offers three different student residential buildings, all of which are within walking distance from the university campuses. All students that are residing in these buildings can take advantage of the free transport that the university offers. What is more, all the dorms are equipped with facilities like fridge, Shower, toilet facilities, Wi-Fi, bed Wardrobe, Washbasin and mirror, as well as car parking and bicycle storage.
The first student residence of the university is called Scotia Quay that costs up to £95.50 per week. Each room is suitable for up to 5 students. the second one is named Panns Bank costs about £77.79 a week and is also suitable for families of four. Lastly, Clanny House also costs around £77.79 per week and is suitable for couples as well as single students.
After Graduation
All the students have the opportunity to seek help from The Careers and Employability Service, a team dedicated to helping students find proper and suitable employment either during or after their education.
Students are encouraged to take on part-time vocational roles in order to gain perspective on the reality of the labor market and also earn extra cash. As a matter of fact, the university helps and guides them during this process. It helps students find part-time jobs that do not impact their studies or temporary jobs that can be done during vacations and breaks. Students also have the chance to take part in paid or unpaid internships and job placements that are related to their field of study.
The Careers and Employability Service also helps students with finding employment after graduation. They help students with the resumes, CVs, job applications and job interviews.