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a range of resources, including
the library facilities at Medway
and your practice base, and the
internet.
Completing the practice elements
of the programme leads to both
an academic award and the
award of a Statement of
Completion of General Pharmacist
Training (SCGPT) from an
accredited training centre.
Course content
PCert
• Practitioner Development and
Establishment of Professional
Clinical Practice
PDip
• Developing Self, Others and
Your Operational Management
Skills
• Ensuring Patient Safety and
a Quality Service
General Pharmacy Practice
MSc
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Location: Medway
Entry requirements: Successful
completion of the PCert and PDip
General Pharmacy Practice
This MSc develops your research
skills and helps you to make the
transition to a specialist role.
It helps you to demonstrate
a number of competencies
for research and evaluation within
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Advanced Pharmacy Framework.
Course content
There is only one compulsory
module as the MSc is based
around a research project.
This project involves:
• preparation and planning of
research
• research design and design
selection
• managing the research
process
• ethics and research
governance
• statistics for research
• sampling and recruiting
applicants
• designing and using data
collection instruments
• analysing quantitative and
qualitative data.
Independent/Supplementary
Prescribing PCert
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Location: Medway
Entry requirements: Registration
with the appropriate professional/
regulatory body (GPhC or PSNI
for pharmacists, HCPC for allied
health professionals). A first
degree or evidence of having
studied at level H (for those
wishing to undertake a Master’slevel
qualification); at least two
years’ post-registration clinical
experience (pharmacists); at
least three years’ post-registration
clinical experience (allied health
professionals).
This programme, approved by
the appropriate professional/
regulatory bodies, provides
a distance learning option for
qualification as a non-medical
prescriber. Eight contact days
cover communication and
diagnostic skills. Other topics
on the syllabus include the legal,
policy, professional and ethical
aspects of prescribing, plus
pharmacology and patient
assessment and monitoring.
You can take the programme as a
stand-alone PCert in Independent/
Supplementary Prescribing, or as
one pathway into the Medicines
Management programme (see
below), by studying prescribing
as either the first or second year of
the Medicines Management PDip.
On successful completion, the
School will notify the appropriate
professional/regulatory body
that you have qualified as an
independent/supplementary
prescriber.
Course content
• Consultation and Decisionmaking
• Non-Medical Prescribing in
Context
• Putting Prescribing into
Practice
• Safe and Effective Prescribing