Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
Are you an overseas pharmacist looking to enhance your clinical expertise and gain hands-on experience in the UK?
Our degree provides a unique blend of knowledge, training, and practical experience tailored to the most popular career pathways in the pharmacy profession. As part of the course, you’ll have a work placement in a hospital setting, such as the NHS in the UK.
We aim to prepare you for a successful career by providing:
Industry-Relevant Experience: You will gain significant practical experience and confidence whilst studying on this course as you will be exposed to simulated and real-life situations and patient facing roles in both the classroom and a UK hospital setting.
Skills Development: You will be shown how to use various IT resources in a pharmacy, and various clinical information resources used in a clinical practice.
Comprehensive Understanding: The course structure is designed to maximise your learning experience, with dedicated teaching time as well as hands-on project work.
Entry requirements for this course are normally:
A minimum of a second class honours degree in Pharmacy or its international equivalent
Current registration with the relevant regulatory authority of your country to practice as a Pharmacist in any jurisdiction
A letter confirming good standing from a relevant body under which you have worked, prior to your application
At least 3-months relevant work experience before starting the course
You will be required to undertake an Occupational Health screening, and/or Enhanced Level Disclosure and Barring Service checks upon admission to, and at certain other points during the course. If you have not completed courses of all relevant vaccinations, you will be advised to do so; which occasionally can incur a charge by your doctor.
Previous graduates from courses in this subject area have gone on to work in a variety of roles such as Pharmacist, Research scientist (medical), Clinical research associate, Medical sales representative, Medical science liaison, Pharmacologist, Physician associate, Product/process development scientist.
Core Modules:
Applied Therapeutics
International Practice and Policy
Formulation Design and Development
Drug Design and Development
Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Hospital Pharmacy Practice
Professional Practice Placement
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