Manchester student wins PJ and BPSA writing competition Entrants were asked to discuss ways in which the MPharm curriculum, placements or foundation training could be changed to help get graduates ready for practice.…
Beyond graduation: closing the readiness gap in UK pharmacist training The Pharmaceutical Journal and British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association writing competition's third-place entry by Salman Diriye.…
Ready for the real world: peer-led pharmacy skills clinics to transform practice readiness The Pharmaceutical Journal and British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association writing competition's second-place entry by Hafsah Anwar.…
Preparing MPharm graduates for practice: integrating understanding of community pharmacy, mental health and digital health The Pharmaceutical Journal and British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association writing competition's winning entry by Sumayyah Khalid.…
The future pharmacist: empathy, equity and action Senior lecturer Dipa Kamdar shares how she is embedding the topic of health inequalities throughout the pharmacy curriculum at Kingston University.…
Pharmacy students included for first time in NHS Learning Support Fund travel expense scheme The travel and dual accommodation expenses provision of the NHS Learning Support Fund will cover some costs related to students traveling between student accommodations and practice placement sites.…
Using entrustable professional activities to build the future pharmacist Entrustable professional activities are used when training MPharm students to address the issue of competencies in practice-based environments not preparing students for real patient problems during experiential learning.…
PJ view: Pharmacy schools must reclaim past progress in closing MPharm awarding gap Pharmacy schools must take action against the widening MPharm ethnicity awarding gap before it has a significant impact on the sector and its ability to serve diverse patient populations.…
Spotlight: MPharm ethnicity awarding gap rewidens In this Spotlight episode of The PJ Pod, we discuss The Pharmaceutical Journal’s latest analysis of MPharm awarding gap data from 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.…
Ethnicity awarding gap for UK pharmacy graduates has widened since COVID-19 pandemic Exclusive: Data analysed by The Pharmaceutical Journal show that the ethnicity awarding gap for MPharm graduates widened to 11 percentage points in 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.…
