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Piloting an undergraduate student-led health check service

There is a growing focus on the development of communication and clinical skills during undergraduate pharmacy programmes; this has been demonstrated particularly by the General Pharmaceutical Council’s recent consultation on initial education and training[1] . A health check service …

Will pharmacy become a five-year degree?

Proposals from the General Pharmaceutical Council to overhaul pharmacy education and training have been met with a mixed response. …

Regulator will ‘specifically engage’ with Pharmacy Schools Council over education proposals

The chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council has said he plans to “specifically engage” with the Pharmacy Schools Council on funding for its new education and training standards.…

Training places in community pharmacy under threat following GPhC proposals, warn pharmacy bodies

Training placements in community pharmacy are under threat unless the sector is fully involved in implementing plans to introduce a five-year integrated pharmacy degree and the reforms are fully funded, it has emerged.…

GPhC education proposals not written with student development in mind, says BPSA

The British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association has said it “tends to disagree” with plans put forward by the General Pharmaceutical Council to integrate the five years of initial training and education for pharmacists.…

What to do when social media goes bad

The student-led Robert Gordon University Pharmacy Law and Ethics Group reminds pharmacy professionals of how online behaviour can influence younger members of the profession.…

Scottish government invests £2.85m to expand experiential learning of student pharmacists to new settings

Almost £3m is being invested by the Scottish government to expand experiential learning of student pharmacists, with some funding being used to enable students to experience remote and rural practice.…

Olutayo Arikawe: BAME representation, health inequalities and overcoming shyness

A minute in the company of the public health services advocate.…

Marie-Anne Durham: coffee, ethics and David Attenborough

Spend a minute getting to know the winner of the 2018 Scottish Pharmacy Awards Student Leadership Prize.…

How working with podiatry students improved my learning as a pharmacy student

Pharmacy student Evelyn Andrews describes how shadowing students in a podiatry clinic has changed her perceptions of the role.…