Medway school of pharmacy

The Medway School of Pharmacy offers a portfolio of short courses which are focused around the clinical and cost effective use of medicines and prescribing.

Currently the short courses available include:

Medicines Use Review (Pharmacists only)

• Skills for the Future 1 – Medicines Use Review (MURs)
• Skills for the Future 2 – MUR in Practice

Enhanced Services (Pharmacists and other health care professionals)

• Patient Monitoring In Practice
• Minor Ailments: Service Development
• Minor Ailments: Infections and Infestations
• Minor Ailments: Pain and Injuries
• Optimising Health
• Hypertension
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Obesity and Impaired Glucose Tolerance
• Asthma

CPD for Prescribers

• Medicines Management Updates
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Mental Health
• Pain and Symptom Management
• Cardiac Conditions
• Asthma and COPD
  

Teaching

Short courses include 5, 10 and 15 credit distance learning courses
Study days as appropriate

Assessment

Assessment is through completion of case studies and assignments which are principally work-based.

Careers

Students who are prescribers are required to carry out continuing professional development specific to their prescribing role and in some cases re-registration is dependent on this. Pharmacists who are undertaking advanced services under the new pharmacy contract are required to provide proof of training. Pharmacists who wish to engage in locally commissioned enhanced services will identify learning needs which can be addressed through short courses.