Undergraduate student

Training healthcare professionals from many disciplines

Pharmacist Mark Magas lectures students from a wide range of healthcare professions, including paramedics, midwives and nurses.…

Ludicrous to suggest removal of science from pharmacy degrees

I was disappointed to read the unhelpful and divisive report in The Pharmaceutical Journal (online, 9 September 2014) suggesting that I favour the removal of science from the undergraduate pharmacy programme. Nothing could be further from the truth. In response to a question at the RPS conference on…

Antipsychotics and forensics: my week in mental health pharmacy

In a week-long mental health placement at Nottingham Healthcare Trust, pharmacy student Catherine Leggett had the opportunity to visit a mother and baby ward and a low security forensic ward…

Science is an essential component of undergraduate pharmacy education

It was with incredulity that I read the reported comments of Scotland’s Chief Pharmaceutical Officer on the removal of science from the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum ( The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014:293:234 ). Given the enormous challenges of future healthcare provisi…