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The five-year pharmacy degree: what have we learnt?

Proposals for a five-year pharmacy degree – where preregistration training is integrated into undergraduate education – have been discussed since 2011. But how is the programme working in universities that already offer it?…

How to design and use learning objectives in clinical teaching

Understanding the value of learning objectives and what makes a successful one.…

Top 10 news stories for 2015

Drug safety was a hot topic in 2015, accounting for five of the top 10 news stories consumed by our readers.…

Understanding pharmacy practice in the UK and beyond

‘Pharmacy practice 2nd edition’, by Geoffrey Harding and Kevin Taylor.…

Putting together a conference about alternative pharmacy careers

The Alternative Pharmacy Careers conference is due to take place on 23 January 2016 at the University of East Anglia. Third-year pharmacy student Sarah Kirk describes how the conference came about.…

Learn the basics about physical pharmacy

‘Physical pharmacy’, by Blaine Templar Smith.…

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s top 5 comment pieces of 2015

Junk food tax, statins prescribing and opioid painkiller addiction were among the most read topics in the opinion section in 2015.…

Review of 2015: ten developments that are changing pharmacy

The pharmacy landscape continues to shift amid a backdrop of austere UK public spending and the rising spectre of centralised dispensing in the community. The Pharmaceutical Journal presents ten developments that affected pharmacists in 2015.…

Enhancing clinical practice through pharmaceutical science

‘Integrated pharmacy case studies’, by Sally-Anne Francis, Felicity Smith, John Malkinson, Andrew Constanti and Kevin Taylor.…

Trainees having to pay for placements must not become reality

I was concerned to hear Keith Ridge, chief pharmaceutical officer for England, say that some preregistration trainees may in the future need to pay for their placement year. ( The Pharmaceutical Journal, online, 12 November 2015) Undergraduate students already face paying £9,000 pe…