Core Clinical Skills (Postgraduate Pharmacy CPD)
Key Details
- Module Cost
- £590
- Credits
- 10 Credits
- Further Information
- pha.nqp@uea.ac.uk
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Module Overview / Introduction
Students taking this module will be learning the fundamental skills needed to effectively undertake the role of the Clinical Pharmacist professionally and autonomously. There is a focus on broad data collection and integration (including physical assessment skills), the key aspects of clinical reasoning as well as clear, unambiguous communication both verbally and in writing.
Student feedback:
"Excellent session, presented really well. I learnt so many new things that I can now apply to my own clinical practice. Excellent learning opportunity and the session was delivered very well."
Course Dates:
Application Deadline: 22/07/2025
Course Start Date:
Face to Face Study Day UEA 09/06/2025 or Harlow Study Centre 16/09/2025
Formative Assessment 22/10/2025
Summative Assessment 28/11/2025
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate and interpret patient-specific data commonly associated with disease risk, general diagnostics and the monitoring of patient care
- Predict how these patient-specific data could be altered by drugs and disease processes
- Identify factors which may produce erroneous or misleading patient-specific data
- Analyse patient-specific data to classify organ function (e.g. renal or liver impairment) in order to design alternative regimes and monitor treatment goals
- Recommend and apply an appropriate selection of patient-specific data to monitor patient outcomes
- Integrate a broad range of patient-specific data and form reasonable judgements about the nature and severity of the underlying clinical issues
- Create patient-centred, evidence-informed management plans focussed around the effective, safe and judicious use of therapeutics relative to the current clinical status of the patient and their predicted clinical trajectory
- Communicate in verbal and written form using language and behaviour that is motivational and unambiguous, in a structured, concise way that leads to action
- Practice with the autonomy and authority required of a clinical pharmacist
Teaching & Assessment
Module Delivery:
eLearning Package (approximately 10 hours)
Face to Face study day
Formative and Summative Assessment
Study Days
The study day for this module is face to face and delivered at our sites in Harlow (Essex) and Norwich.
Assessment:
This module is assessed by a Case Based Discussion and is structured on a Pharmaceutical Care Plan based on a patient from the Pharmacists own practice. The assessment in 12 minutes, online via MS Teams.
Funding
NHS England-funded places are available for pharmacists delivering NHS services within the East of England. This includes those working in NHS hospitals, GP practices serving NHS patients, and community pharmacies dispensing NHS prescriptions.
For those outside the East of England or working for non-NHS service providers, self-funded or employer-funded places are available at a cost of £590 per module. In the event you are funded by your employer, full invoicing details and a financial purchase order will be required to confirm your place.
How to Apply / Disclaimer
If you are applying to undertake your first CPD module with the University of East Anglia you will need to complete the course application form via the Apply link
You will also need to complete the Postgraduate Pharmacy Module selection form
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.
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