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How students at the University of Manchester are promoting inter-professional education

Healthcare students at the University of Manchester have set up a society to improve inter-professional learning. Pharmacy student Linda Owens describes its most popular event, the clinical skills evening.…

GPhC sheds light on lower pass rates in Black-African pharmacy students

An investigation into why Black-African trainee pharmacists perform less well in the registration assessments has been carried out by the General Pharmaceutical Council and the results suggest they could be more likely to struggle because many are also mature or overseas students.…

Why pharmacy students should volunteer with Team Up

Team Up is a volunteering programme that partners trainee and student healthcare professionals with organisations that help disadvantaged communities. Here, four pharmacy students talk about the projects they participated in.…

My predictions on community pharmacy’s future over the next decade

Now that I have retired from community pharmacy, The Pharmaceutical Journal’s splendid April issue gave me plenty of food for thought to attempt to predict the future of our profession over the next decade. With a pharmacist in every GP surgery, surely the obvious place for medicines use…

Delivering personalised medicines will be our forte

Our expertise is unique, built on a foundation of science, combined with clinical knowledge to improve the health of our nation. This century has seen a revolution in the way medicines are developed, with personalised medicines set to become the norm rather than the exception. We need to ensure that…

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?…

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.…