Professional skills
It takes more than clinical knowledge and technical skills to reach your full potential in pharmacy practice. Professional skills — such as teamwork, leadership, communication and decision making — are equally important for delivering high-quality patient care.
Our collection of professional skills and career development resources is informed by the RPS’s Post-registration Foundation Curriculum and the Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum, organised into nine categories.
New content is added regularly so if you have suggestions for further topics that you would like to see included, please contact the research and learning team.
Career and professional development
Test yourself: the 2024 CPD and learning quiz
Writing an effective CV for pharmacy roles: a guide for graduates
Entrustable professional activities: a new approach to supervising trainee pharmacists on clinical placements
How to design optimal induction pathways for pharmacy professionals
How to support pharmacists during hospital rotations
All hail, the specialist generalist!
Communication and consultation skills
Test yourself: the 2024 CPD and learning quiz
Maternal vaccination: rationale, recommendations and role of pharmacists
Prescribing dilemma: clozapine prescribing in prison
Pharmacy teams identify patients with ‘red-flag’ cancer symptoms in early diagnosis project
How can pharmacists best support patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia?
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Health psychology and advanced communication skills for prescribers
Best practice principles for inclusive care of transgender and non-binary patients
Equality, diversity and inclusion
How to make the pharmacy workplace inclusive for neurodivergent team members
Best practice principles for inclusive care of transgender and non-binary patients
How to incorporate strategic priorities into clinical pharmacy practice
Architecture exhibit aims to start a discussion on the use of space in community pharmacies
Addressing microaggressions to deliver cultural competence in pharmacy
How to improve cultural competence in pharmacy practice
‘We are all fighting something’ — shattering the silence on hidden disabilities in pharmacy (audio)
Leadership, management and teamwork
How to incorporate strategic priorities into clinical pharmacy practice
Entrustable professional activities: a new approach to supervising trainee pharmacists on clinical placements
How to design optimal induction pathways for pharmacy professionals
How to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
How to support pharmacists during hospital rotations
Supporting recently qualified hospital pharmacists: advice for the first few years
Educational supervision, assessment and feedback for pharmacists
Practice-based skills
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: diagnosis and management
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How to conduct a health assessment for pharmacists
Medication maths: using a resource or artefact when calculating doses and dose regimen
Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefits of off-label migraine treatment in a child
Pharmacy teams identify patients with ‘red-flag’ cancer symptoms in early diagnosis project
Reflective practice for pharmacist prescribers
Prescribing
Test your knowledge of gastrointestinal conditions
Prescribing dilemma: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for heart failure in an older patient
How to conduct a health assessment for pharmacists
Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefits of off-label migraine treatment in a child
Understanding human factors in patient safety when prescribing
Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when treating sertraline sexual dysfunction
Health psychology and advanced communication skills for prescribers
Professional judgement and decision making
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: diagnosis and management
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Understanding scope of practice and accountability when prescribing
How to use clinical reasoning in pharmacy
Test yourself: the 2024 CPD and learning quiz
Prescribing dilemma: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for heart failure in an older patient
Prescribing dilemma: clozapine prescribing in prison
Medication maths: using a resource or artefact when calculating doses and dose regimen
Research skills and experience
Top ten articles of 2024 from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s research journals
Working across boundaries to enable research in pharmacy
*DEADLINE EXTENDED* Nominate an outstanding early-career pharmacy researcher for OPERA 2025
From paper to practice: a pharmacy professional’s guide to critical appraisal tools
Why are some research papers cited more than others?
Is research really an exclusive activity or one we can all embrace?
Getting into research
Service innovations and improvement
How to implement an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system in a paediatric setting
Designing an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system in a paediatric setting
Principles of sustainable healthcare in pharmacy practice
How to incorporate strategic priorities into clinical pharmacy practice
Replacing automated medication dispensing machines: how to plan and implement change when equipment reaches end of life
Case-based learning: social prescribing and pharmacy professionals
