Community Pharmacy - MSc Courses & Awards

There are four postgraduate Masters (MSc) awards that a community pharmacist could consider as their goal:

MSc in Community Pharmacy

MSc in Community Pharmacy (Open Learn)

MSc in Community Pharmacy (Independent Prescribing)

MSc in Advanced Professional Practice

To be eligible for entry to the Professional MSc Course, you will have completed the associated postgraduate Diploma. Applicants with an ‘equivalent’ Diploma from another UK university may also be considered.

All eligible students will register on the Professional MSc Course.

 

Professional MSC Course
The Masters year course is common to all Keele Medicines Management/School of Pharmacy’s principal postgraduate programmes, i.e. Community Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy (secondary care), Prescribing Studies and Advanced Professional Practice.

Entry to the Masters year requires satisfactory completion of the postgraduate Diploma award that is associated with one of the relevant Keele programmes, or an ‘equivalent’ postgraduate Diploma award from another UK university. Candidates who wish to gain direct entry after having completed a Diploma at another university will have to provide full details of the syllabus covered/assessment strategy for consideration with their application to Keele.

The Masters year was re-structured in 2007 to take into account a number of factors affecting education and professional role development for health professionals to embody an emphasis on the researching professional as a reflective practitioner. It is categorized by the University as a Professional MSc that is grounded in an individual’s professional practice. It will enable you to focus on an area of interest to you so that you can develop a comprehensive understanding and critical awareness of this at an advanced level and apply your learning to develop your professional practice/services through scholarship, research and enquiry that will, in parallel, enable you to achieve the standards for a Masters degree. This will be achieved through the three modules that form the structure for the Masters year:

Researching and Evaluating your practice – 15 credits
Advanced Practice Development – 15 credits
Independent Learning Project – 30 credits

For more information about the Professional MSc year.