This page contains details about the units available on our:
Year 1 - core units
Introduction to Advanced Clinical Pharmacy
Credits: 7.5
Advance your understanding of, and clinical application in, patient safety; prescribing for paediatric patients; renal impairment; antimicrobial stewardship; intravenous drug administration; monitoring and interpreting laboratory test results; answering questions about medicines; critical appraisal; effective and professional clinical practice; communication and consultation.
Clinical Therapeutics 1
Credits: 7.5
Focussing on a specific clinical area (including Cardiovascular, respiratory, care of the older person, gastrointestinal, endocrinology, mental health, neurology, surgery) gain a deeper understanding to critically analyse and evaluate the pathophysiology of acute and chronic conditions to support medicines optimisation. Learn to use effective communication strategies to support patients and healthcare professionals optimise decisions appreciating patient perspectives and applying key evidence.
Clinical Therapeutics 2
Credits: 7.5
Focussing on a specific clinical area (including Cardiovascular, respiratory, care of the older person, gastrointestinal, endocrinology, mental health, neurology, surgery) gain a deeper understanding to critically analyse and evaluate the pathophysiology of acute and chronic conditions to support medicines optimisation. Learn to use effective communication strategies to support patients and healthcare professionals optimise decisions appreciating patient perspectives and applying key evidence.
Clinical Therapeutics 3
Credits: 7.5
Focussing on a specific clinical area (including Cardiovascular, respiratory, care of the older person, gastrointestinal, endocrinology, mental health, neurology, surgery) gain a deeper understanding to critically analyse and evaluate the pathophysiology of acute and chronic conditions to support medicines optimisation. Learn to use effective communication strategies to support patients and healthcare professionals optimise decisions appreciating patient perspectives and applying key evidence.
Year 2 - core units
Clinical Therapeutics 4
Credits: 7.5
Focussing on a specific clinical area (including Cardiovascular, respiratory, care of the older person, gastrointestinal, endocrinology, mental health, neurology, surgery) gain a deeper understanding to critically analyse and evaluate the pathophysiology of acute and chronic conditions to support medicines optimisation. Learn to use effective communication strategies to support patients and healthcare professionals optimise decisions appreciating patient perspectives and applying key evidence.
Research Methods
Credits: 7.5
Explore a range of research designs and methods for use in conducting a small-scale research project to include the formulation of appropriate research questions suitable for conducting practice research. You will create and critically review a research protocol which describes a small-scale practice-based research project, developing a range of skills to support including ethical review, project planning, presentation and networking.
Year 2 - optional units
Quality Improvement Project
Credits: 7.5
Conceptualise a small work-based project in improving a process, product or service by evaluating key processes and practice activities to determine scope for continuous improvement. This will require you to identify, critically assess and select an appropriate quality improvement tool and approach to enhance practice, applying relevant tools to generate data and report the findings of the project suitable for presenting to key stakeholders.
Leadership in Health
Credits: 7.5
Reflect on your own leadership style and approach to identify areas for continuous improvement, and critically evaluate the emotions and politics that surround, shape and impact on leadership. Work and communicate effectively and appropriately with a range of people in practice contexts on an individual, group and organisational basis to practice critical and effective leadership approaches in the practice context.
Supporting Educating and Training in Healthcare Contexts
Credits: 7.5
Critically evaluate and select appropriate learning and teaching strategies to support learning and assessment in and from practice to meet a variety of needs, in response to national and local workforce development policies. You will demonstrate effective strategies for support of learning needs of others and reflectively critique personal approaches to teaching and learning.
Management of Minor Illness
Credits: 7.5
Gather a range of clinical information for differential and working diagnoses, implementing holistic plans for patient care in the context of a minor illness and relevant policy for the management of minor illnesses. In understanding the fundamentals of conditions that commonly present as minor illnesses, you will apply principles of basic clinical examination in the context of minor illnesses, and reflect on your own practice in this therapeutic area and identify areas for improvement.
Global Pharmaceutical Public Health
Credits: 7.5
Critically discuss the nature of public health and how it is delivered to analyse and reflect on your own role in pharmaceutical public health. You will identify and use key relevant public health tools and information sources to inform the delivery of pharmaceutical public health projects, and influence local policy and practice in pharmaceutical public health within the health care sector.
Year 3 - Dissertation
Dissertation
Credits: 30
Carry out a research project in a clinically-oriented practice area where you will propose, contextualise, perform, and critically evaluate your research, and disseminate the results to an expert audience.