PGDip Pharmacy Practice(Part-Time)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able to:

- demonstrate in-depth specialist knowledge of pharmaceutical care for a range of core conditions
- exhibit competence in the exercise of generic and pharmacy-specific intellectual abilities
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of techniques for evaluating and managing the risk associated with prescribing, supplying and administering medicines to ensure patient safety
- take a proactive & self-reflective role in working & to develop professional relationships with others
- evaluate current issues and research in pharmacy.

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional pharmacy practice
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations
- independent learning & the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development
- critical engagement in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms in pharmacy.

Assessment

Achievement for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:

- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study
- evaluating received opinion
- making sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.