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Advanced & Specialist Practice (MSc/CPD)

Institution:

University of Bath

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Dept/School/Faculty:

Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Duration:

3 - 5 years

Entry Requirements:

BPharm or MPharm if you are a pharmacist, or equivalent professional degree if you are a member of another professional group. Be a registered member of the General Pharmaceutical Council/Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland or other professional registration body. Be working at a senior level in your area of practice and have at least 4 years experience post registration. Demonstrate a commitment to CPD by providing up-to-date records of formal professionally recognised CPD activity.

Masters Fees:

£450 (6 credit unit) £900 (12 credit units)

Start Month(s):

September, January

Masters Degree Type:

MSc

Contact Name:

Dr Andrea Taylor

Study Type:

Bath’s range of CPD courses for mid career and senior health professionals offer complete flexibility, recognising experience gained through practice. They support the development for senior roles in health, including the Consultant Pharmacist pathway and Pharmacists with Special Interest accreditation. Study separate Advanced CPD courses or combine them for an Advanced Practice MSc.

Courses include:
• Advanced clinical practice
• Leadership
• Managing in health
• Supporting education, training and development
• Research design and methods for practice
• Advanced professional development
• Plus a choice of more than ten 6-credit courses including key therapeutic areas as well as Medicines Management, Minor Ailments, Mental Health, Public Health and Pharmacist Prescribing.

Develop your area of expertise using a blend of flexible peer, action and work-based learning, supported by web-based resources and online discussion events. Occasional professional conferences embed new knowledge and skills and explore ideas and concepts at the forefront of service delivery and network with other professionals.
Courses are mapped to the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework, and in addition, other relevant frameworks are also applied e.g. the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework for the ‘Leadership in Health’ course.

What you can achieve:

• Identify and lead innovation and service development relevant to your area of practice, and evaluate the impacts
• Review and manage complexity in your clinical and practice setting
• Foster and develop high level leadership skills and effective inter-professional communication and working
• Critically assess evidence and use appropriately to inform your decision making process
• Evaluate, challenge and manage change in your clinical or practice setting
• Develop and support others to work effectively and pragmatically and analyse the impacts of development
• Design and conduct audit and research in practice and effectively commission and make sense of that research
• Create and support learning activities for a practice-based environment

Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) criteria may apply to those applicants who have previous learning experience and academic credits. Previous experiential learning may also be considered.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/pharmacy/postgraduate for more detail and fees or contact:
Dr Andrea Taylor, Director of Postrgraduate Programmes direct on 01225 386029

Visit the Advanced & Specialist Practice (MSc/CPD) page on the University of Bath web site for more details!

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