Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 6 - 12 Months
This course will help you to learn about the many facets of prescribing, including clinical skills, clinical reasoning, consultation skills, communication skills, the psychology of prescribing and the legal and ethical considerations when prescribing.
The course is usually delivered over six months. However, for students with sufficient time and resources, the opportunity exists to undertake all learning and assessment within four months. There is also the option of carrying out the course over 12 months, for students who would prefer this. Please note that these timeframes refer to the period of studying: marking and quality assurance processes associated with assessment will be in addition to these time-frames.
During the course, you will undertake a mix of self-directed learning, structured online learning, and learning in practice. This includes attendance at eight compulsory study days during which you will be taught in small groups. Our small group teaching encourages important discussion and debate amongst fellow pharmacists and lecturers, allowing for valuable reflection on the future of prescribing practice and promoting self-awareness and critical thinking as a non-medical prescriber.
Applicants need to be registered as a pharmacist with the General
Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) or, in Northern Ireland, with the
Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
Applicants should be in good standing with the GPhC and/or PSNI and any
other healthcare regulator with which they are registered.
Applicants should hold a third-class honours (3rd) or above in Pharmacy or
equivalent degree qualification.
Applicants must have relevant experience in a UK pharmacy setting and be
able to recognise, understand and articulate the skills and attributes
required by a prescriber to act as the foundation of their prescribing
practice whilst training.
Applicants should undertake their learning in practice in the UK or
Northern Ireland.
For the purposes of developing their independent prescribing practice
applicants must identify an area of clinical or therapeutic practice on
which to base their learning.
Upon successful completion of this course you will be awarded a Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing, which will allow you to apply to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) for your register entry to be annotated to that of a prescriber. You will then be able to work as a pharmacist independent prescriber.
Clinical reasoning and complex decision making
Communication and consultation skills
Clinical skills including NEWS2 assessment, cardiovascular, abdominal and respiratory examinations
Influences on prescribing
Psychology of prescribing
Legal and ethical aspects of prescribing
Understanding clinical risk
Using evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal
Interprofessional education, including an interprofessional education event.
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