Regulator to monitor registration assessment performance of three further pharmacy schools Data from the General Pharmaceutical Council's report on the June 2023 registration exam show low pass rates for students from the University of Hertfordshire, University of Lincoln and University of Portsmouth.…
RPS forms working group to address attainment and awarding gaps for black students The group will meet quarterly to discuss how to improve the attainment and awarding gap for black students in the registration exam and MPharm degree.…
Clinical placements can give pharmacy students a real-life lesson in health inequalities Teaching staff at the University of Nottingham School of Pharmacy say their practical placement pilot for second-year MPharm students should be adopted more widely to promote a reduction in health inequalities.…
MPharm students to be able to dispense medicines on undergraduate clinical placements The University of Bath has produced a list of 47 entrustable professional activities that MPharm students can undertake during supervised clinical placements.…
University wins contract to pilot foundation year independent prescribing training and assessment The University of Bradford will explore how independent prescribing training can be integrated into the pharmacy foundation year.…
Only pharmacists have signed up to postgraduate pharmacogenomics course Exclusive: The course, run by Bangor University, had 16 participants in its first year, all of whom were pharmacists.…
‘Several’ universities planning new MPharm courses, says Pharmacy Schools Council The pharmacy body welcomed the NHS's 'Long-term workforce plan', but warned that capacity and funding will be important challenges.…
Ethnicity awarding gap for UK pharmacy graduates narrowed during COVID-19 pandemic Exclusive: Data analysis suggests a 4-percentage-point drop in the difference between the proportions of white and ethnic minority MPharm graduates awarded an upper-class degree.…
University of Leicester launches first distance-learning independent prescriber course The university aims to train 250 pharmacists each year through its distance-learning course, which it says was developed following “employer demand”.…
No pharmacists apply for fully funded place on genomic medicine course Exclusive: There have been no applications for funded places on the genomic medicine postgraduate course at Swansea University since the funding was allocated in 2019.…
