Clinical pharmacy review a patient’s medical background to determine whether their drug treatment is suitable, safe, successful, and cost-effective. They do this by reviewing the patient’s medication routine. The expert chemist may suggest other ways to treat the patient and give advice on how to handle medications, such as how to keep track of them, write them down, give them, and store them.
Why would you want to become a qualified expert pharmacist?
- More chances to move up in your job
- An open plan for work
- Being able to use professional skills to help patients do better
- As an important part of the healthcare team, working together with healthcare providers
- Being able to focus on and use knowledge in areas like mental health, MTM, geriatrics,
- Using skills for talking to people, fixing problems, and making choices
You Can Study Whenever You Want
The course is mostly taught online, which gives you the freedom to choose how you want to learn. Virtual classes, e learning, quizzes, practical case-based scenarios, and video talks are just some of the engaging and bite-sized ways to learn that you can find online. We also host a number of live online workshops led by a variety of experienced academic lecturers and healthcare specialists.
Two of the alternative modules, pharmacy jobs and Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing for Pharmacists require on-campus teaching days. These days, we are used to learning and practicing the clinical skills part of the course.
Study And Exercise Together
Using a part-time delivery model, the course will fit in with your current work and give you an organized study plan that makes your learning experience better at work. In some lessons, you’ll be able to put together files of evidence that show how your skills align with the RPS core structure. You can use these to build your job as an RPS chemist and add to your independent portfolio.
The course suggests a workplace partner as a way to help you finish the portfolio. This way, you can do work-based portfolio tasks in a way that fits your current practice.
Conclusion
If you want to take the next step in your job, the information and skills you’ll gain from getting your MSc in Clinical Pharmacy will put you in great shape. Previous students have gone on to work as senior and advanced clinical pharmacists in both primary and secondary care. Those who also took Independent Prescribing went on to work in expert prescribing centers.
