The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7199 p729-736
25 May 2002
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The diploma course is a two-year programme requiring 300 hours of study. Candidates must complete ten 20-hour units, including four compulsory units covering responding to symptoms, interpersonal skills and health promotion. Optional units cover cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases, respiratory disease, drugs acting on the central nervous system, gastrointestinal disease, managing skin conditions, IT and legislation, complementary medicine, PACT analysis, formulary development and social and behavioural aspects of pharmacy. Five structured workbooks, chosen from six and involving 20 hours' study each, are used to develop skills in aspects of community pharmacy practice. An open-book examination is set at the end of each year. For the MSc, an additional unit in research methods, plus a research project is carried out in the third year, requiring an additional 400 hours study. |
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The diploma course is a one- to two-year programme requiring 300 hours of study. Candidates must complete ten 20-hour units, drawn from a range covering clinical laboratory tests, clinical pharmacokinetics, therapeutic drug monitoring, adverse drug reactions and interactions, cardiovascular disease, infections and antibiotics, pain management, endocrinology, respiratory diseases, diseases of the central nervous system, gastrointestinal disease, skin diseases, total parenteral nutrition and feeding (half unit), interpersonal skills, statistics, clinical trials (half unit) and drug information (half unit). In addition, there is 100 hours of in-practice training comprising 40 hours of clinical case reports and 60 hours' study based on two clinical workbooks.Workbooks cover clinical pharmacy (compulsory), cardiovascular disease, endo-crinology, infection and antibiotics, respiratory diseases, therapeutic drug monitoring, clinical laboratory tests and clinical pharmacy in surgery. A critical literature review must also be completed. For the MSc, which takes at least two years, a research project requiring an additional 400 hours' work replaces the critical review. |
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