Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice PgCert
Queen's University BelfastBelfast, United Kingdom
Course overview
Do you want to advance your pharmacy career while continuing in employment? This postgraduate distance learning programme allows you fit your studies around your work and family commitments. Our Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice programme was developed following extensive consultation with pharmacists and their employers both within and beyond the United Kingdom.
It provides a flexible study pathway that is designed to develop the therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills of pharmacists to an advanced level. The modules are designed to help pharmacists to acquire and demonstrate the advanced-level competencies defined in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum. This PG Certificate programme is open to pharmacists in all employment sectors.
It is studied entirely off-campus by distance-learning and is open to pharmacists both within and outside the United Kingdom.
Key highlights
- Studied entirely off-campus by distance learning
- Fits around existing work and family commitments
- Aligned to Royal Pharmaceutical Society Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum
- Developed through consultation with pharmacists and employers internationally
- Develops therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills to an advanced level
- Open to pharmacists in all sectors, in the UK or abroad
Entry requirements
- IELTS: 6 — 6.0 IELTS* score of 6.0, with not less than 5.5 in any component, or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University is require
Scholarships
International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship
Year one award of between £2000 and £5000.
Up to £2,000The Burdett Trust MSc Nursing Scholarships
For Home Students: Tuition fees £7,665 Stipend £10,250. For International Students: Tuition fees £24,295 Stipend £17,000
Vice Chancellor’s International Attainment Scholarship - Postgraduate Taught
Value: 50% of tuition fees paid for up to a maximum of two years.
Up to 50% of fees
Careers this course leads to
- Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
- Specialist Hospital Pharmacist
- Clinical Pharmacist
- Primary Care Pharmacist
- Community Pharmacist
Cost of study
UK/Home: £2,640 | International: £4,500
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Queen's University Belfast, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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