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MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice with Extended Placement

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Why choose Herts?

Teaching Excellence: You will be taught by Clinical experts using excellent clinical simulation facilities.

Work-Related Learning: You will undertake Clinical Placements in local NHS Trusts.

Employment Opportunities: Our graduates work as pharmacists in a range of clinical settings from regional hospitals and clinics to international private healthcare organisations.

You must be a registered pharmacist in your home country with at least 6-months of patient facing practice in a hospital and a good batchelor’s degree in pharmacy (at least 55% GPA) or equivalent.

You will need a secure IELTS score of 7.0 or equivalent with a minimum of 6.0 in any band. International Students should be aware that this course does not lead to registration to practice as a pharmacist in the UK.

Anyone wanting to undertake this course must comply with the Department of Health and Social Care immunisation guidelines which, from 1 April 2022, must now include the vaccine against Covid-19. This applies to all health and social care settings regulated by the Care Quality Commission and applies to all workers including students conducting placements.


Institution code	H36
School of study	School of Life and Medical Sciences
Course length	Full Time, 20 Months
Location	University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

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About the course

The purpose of the Clinical Pharmacy Practice programme is to enable pharmacists who have at least 6 months patient-facing post registration experience to develop advanced knowledge skills and attributes in the professional practice of Pharmacy and ensure safe, effective and rational use of medicines. The programme will provide a wide range of opportunities to enable individuals to develop an in depth understanding of the evidence base and safety framework for healthcare and medicines management. The programme offers the opportunity for multi-professional working with others who are involved in the provision of health care. The changes in healthcare and the implications for the changing role of Pharmacists are integral to the development of this programme. Patient safety and medicines optimisation are integral to the goals of developing healthcare services and is fundamental to safe effective and rational use of medicines.

MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice

This programme provides an opportunity to study a wide range of pharmacy practice, medicines management and public health related theory and to explore the professional practice of pharmacy in a clinical setting.

MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice with extended placement

This pathway builds on the MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice to allow students to demonstrate an advanced knowledge and systematic understanding of pharmaceutical care delivery in a hospital setting. This will be achieved by students undertaking 6 months of clinical rotations based in local NHS hospitals.

What will I study?

Our facilities

Our school, at the University of Hertfordshire offers world-class teaching and learning facilities, including Europe's largest medical simulation laboratory.

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Level 7

Module	Credits	Compulsory/optional
Clinical Pharmacy in Practice	45 Credits	Compulsory
This module will allow students to develop the clinical skills required to safely practice in a clinical pharmacy setting. The students will learn how to interpret clinical data and apply the pharmacological and medicinal information acquired to patient scenarios. By the end of the module, the students will be able to assess patients, investigate their medical conditions and devise a pharmaceutical care plan. The students will also acquire the necessary skills and attitudes for effective counselling, professional practice and safe patient care.
Core Competencies in Pharmacy Practice	30 Credits	Compulsory
This module provides an opportunity to develop cultural competence in a range of health care and pharmacy situations. It equips the students with the necessary skills to critically analyse the relation between knowledge and practice competence at masters level 7 study.
Leadership in Practice	30 Credits	Compulsory
This course will enable the student to understand the multi-faceted nature of leadership. It will encourage the practitioner to recognise their approach to leadership, how leadership us undertaken within their work setting and the multiple factors that shape prevailing leadership styles and the impact of this on colleagues, team working and for clients. Within the course, particular attention will be given to the practitioner as leadership within contemporary organisations. This course will equip the practitioner to recognise and develop their leadership potential so that they can develop new insights, new ways of working and promote change and sustained development within their work setting.
Project (ACPP)	60 Credits	Compulsory
This module develops the students' ability to design and execute a research project in an area of relevance to pharmacy under the supervision of an academic supervisor. During the first weeks of the module, the students will review the related literature and generate a research question. A summative literature review and research proposal will be submitted to the project supervisor for feedback and guidance. The data collection and analysis will be based on the agreed proposal, followed by the production of the dissertation demonstrating the student's critical understanding and interpretation of the methodologies and results of their research. The results should be disseminated through a poster presentation.
Work-Based Learning for Pharmacists	15 Credits	Compulsory
The module is designed to introduce pharmacists from overseas or from primary care to the UK context of secondary care. It will allow this exposure during observational clinical placements and will provide support in the development of students' skills in reflective practice in order to enhance learning from observation of practice in a clinical pharmacy setting. Students will be encouraged through the use of a learning portfolio to explore key factors affecting clinical decision making and patient management. The module will also explore the principles of effective pharmaceutical care in relation to inter professional team working and patient advocacy.
Extended Clinical Placement	60 Credits	Compulsory
This module develops the student's clinical pharmacy skills to enable them to apply pharmaceutical knowledge to patient care in acute and non-acute pharmacy settings. Much of the learning will take place at the placement site, with a range of clinical rotations in a variety of specialist and non-specialist areas. Students will normally have fortnightly meetings with the academic link tutor to sign off sections of their portfolio. The placement is supported by regular university based study days for the consolidation of learning and preparation for the summative assessments.

Key staff

Dr Claire Hough
Programme Lead
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Dr Nada Shebl
Admissions Tutor
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Further course information

Course fact sheets
MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice with Extended Placement	Download

Programme specifications
MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice	Download

Additional information
Sandwich placement or study abroad year	n/a
Applications open to international and EU students	Yes

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Funding and fees
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Fees 2022
UK Students

Full time
- £10320 for the 2022/2023 academic year
- £34080 for the Extended Placement for the 2022/2023 academic year
EU Students

Full time
- £20020 for the 2022/2023 academic year
- £43780 for the Extended Placement for the 2022/2023 academic year
International Students

Full time
- £20020 for the 2022/2023 academic year
- £43780 for the Extended Placement for the 2022/2023 academic year
*Tuition fees are charged annually. The fees quoted above are for the specified year(s) only. Fees may be higher in future years, for both new and continuing students. Please see the University's Fees and Finance Policy (and in particular the section headed "When tuition fees change"), for further information about when and by how much the University may increase its fees for future years.

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Living costs / accommodation

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Read more about additional fees in the course fact sheet

2022

Start Date	End Date	Link
18/09/2022	22/09/2023	Apply online (Full Time)

2023

Start Date	End Date	Link
18/09/2023	22/09/2024	Apply online (Full Time)

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, examinations may be replaced by an alternative form of assessment during the academic year 2021/2022. Please refer to the Programme Specification on these pages for further details.

MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice with Extended Placement

Why choose Herts?

About the course

MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice

MSc Advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice with extended placement

What will I study?

Our facilities

Key staff

Further course information

Student experience

Other financial support

Fees 2022

UK Students

Full time

EU Students

Full time

International Students

Full time

Living costs / accommodation

2022

2023