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PMP101
Health, Disease and Patient
A comprehensive understanding of human body systems, encompassing their structure and function in both health and disease, is essential for health care professionals, including pharmacists. The Health, Disease and Patient (HDP) module aims to develop this knowledge by delving into the body¿s essential cellular and molecular processes. This foundation is built upon to explore how cells and different organ systems function and interact to maintain a healthy physiological state. The HPD module also explores the consequences of dysfunction in these systems that lead to diseases and the body¿s response to infection, nutritional imbalance, and genetic disorders. Learners will use this knowledge to gain a basic understanding of how drugs and therapeutics can be used to address and manage these pathological conditions. To achieve these learning objectives, the HDP module focuses on the integration of various bioscience themes and disciplines, including Cell Biology; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology; Microbiology; Genetics (covered within the Cellular & Molecular Biosciences theme), Anatomy and Physiology; Pharmacology & Therapeutics. The HDP module will be delivered using various teaching resources and methods encompassing didactic, experiential, problem-based and interactive learning. Themes integration is progressively introduced in Year 1 through integrated case studies, which will link different themes and two or more patient-centred modules progressively. Due to the integrated, spiral nature of the curriculum, learning outcomes from this module will also be reinforced and contextualised by learning delivered within the Practice of Pharmacy (PMP-103) and Drugs and Medicines (PMP-102) modules. Likewise, learning outcomes primarily delivered within PMP-102 and PMP-103 modules may also be covered during this module to ensure that students' scientific knowledge relates to and informs their clinical practice. Professionalism skills will be reinforced and contextualised via the Pharmacist as a Professional (PMP-100) module.
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PMP202
Patient-Centred Learning II (PCLII)
PMP202 is the second of three Patient-Centred Learning (PCL) modules delivered in Years 2 and 3 of the MPharm Pharmacy (Hons) programme. This semester-long (11 weeks) module encompasses 6 vertically integrated study units (ISUs), including central nervous system (CNS), pain, musculoskeletal system (MSS), eyes, ears, nose and throat (EENT), kidney and liver (K&L) and skin. PMP202 also horizontally spirals up with the 7 subject themes: pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, cellular & molecular biosciences, anatomy & physiology, pharmacology & therapeutics, clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy practice.
The module aims to enable students to reasonably apply their fundamental knowledge (drugs & medicines, health, disease and patient, and practice of pharmacy) acquired from the Year 1 module (PMP101, PMP102 and PMP103) along with the skills developed in PMP201, to the patient and people-centred professional scenarios explored in PMP202. The module aims to enable students to transfer knowledge from educational and psychological, pharmaceutical, and pharmacological theories into solving problems and making decisions in new previously unseen patient-related situations. In addition, the learning will be supported by robust contextualisation of science into pharmacy practice, emerging developments with precision/ personalised pharmacy and working with other healthcare professionals (interprofessional education) through multi-disciplinary teaching & learning, and extensive clinical exposure with simulated patients and professional scenarios via in-person community, hospital and GP pharmacy placements. Thus, this module also envisages a progressive development of transferable skills, including recognition, responsible action, problem-solving, ethical, and emotional intelligence, decision making and others.
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PMP301
Patient Centred Learning III (PCLIII)
PMP301 is the third of three Patient-Centred Learning (PCL) modules delivered in Years 2 and 3 of the MPharm Pharmacy (Hons) programme. This semester-long, 11 week-module, encompasses 6 vertically integrated study units (ISUs), Endocrinology, Nutrition, Cancer, Genitourinary, Vaccines, Injury and Trauma. The ISUs in PMP301 spirally integrate the 7 subject themes: pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, cellular & molecular biosciences, anatomy & physiology, pharmacology & therapeutics, clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy practice.
The module aims to enable students to apply their fundamental knowledge acquired from the Year 1 modules (PMP101, PMP102 and PMP103) along with the skills developed in PMP201 and PMP202, to the patient and people-centred professional scenarios explored in PMP301. The module aims to enable students to apply their knowledge from educational, psychological, pharmaceutical, and pharmacological theories to solving problems and making decisions in previously unseen patient-related scenarios. These scenarios will be of increasing complexity when compared to PCLI (PMP 201) and PCLII (PMP202). Student-learning will be supported by robust contextualisation of science into pharmacy practice. It will cover both the emerging developments in precision/ personalised pharmacy and working with other healthcare professionals (interprofessional education) through multi-disciplinary teaching & learning. There will be extensive clinical exposure via simulated patients, patient or patient-representatives and SPEs. Thus, this module will encourage a progressive development of transferable skills, including recognition, responsible action, problem-solving, ethical and emotional intelligence, decision making and others.
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PMP303
New Knowledge (NK60)
PMP303 New Knowledge is the dissertation research project for the MPharm Pharmacy (Hons) programme, conducted in semester 2 of year 3. This semester-long (11 weeks) module comprises largely of independent experimental/research work and production of a written dissertation demonstrating in-depth knowledge of research methodology and enquiry through designing and conducting a research project (under the direction of one or more project supervisors) in areas of the science or practice of pharmacy including but not limited to clinical pharmacy, digital pharmacy, drug delivery, pharmaceutical chemistry, microbiology, cell and molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology, data science, pharmacy education and public health.
The aim of this module is to provide the opportunity for students to explore a specific issue of improving the science or practice of pharmacy including health and well-being of the patients through participating in their own enquiry-based research project. The research project maybe completed individually or are completed collaboratively in small groups (4-5 students; students will be responsible for their own area of a larger research project) under the direction of one or more project supervisors (e.g., university academic and external supervisor e.g. a hospital or community pharmacist). The focus of the projects varies but the science or practice of pharmacy remains at the core of all projects. Like in previous modules PMP302 also horizontally spirals up with the 7 subject themes: pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, cellular & molecular biosciences, anatomy & physiology, pharmacology & therapeutics, clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy practice ¿ forming the basis of student research projects with the inclusion of additional themes (where appropriate) for example, data science (prescribing) and pharmacy education.
Where projects are external to the university, they have been pre-agreed between the university and the project placement site. The project may be laboratory or non-laboratory based, but it will always involve a research question that is drawn from the literature and focused on a topic relevant to Pharmacy. It will ask a novel research question and involve the critical analysis of research findings.
Students have dedicated time to spend on their project. This time is allocated to tasks such as project planning, literature review, developing a specific tool/resource, collecting data, analysing data that they collect or that has been collected by others (data science), meeting with supervisors, meeting with wider research team, reflecting on findings and problem-solving. Students will refine their project management, and oral and written communication skills to FHEQ Level 6 through creating a project overview and Gantt chart on scoping the project background, an appropriate PICO based research question, study methodology including research ethics/governance and timeline; and presentation of an academic poster summarising their research at an in-house `MPharm conference¿ and a written dissertation on their research including conclusion and suggested further research. Successful projects will require significant self-directed learning and the ability to work well in a team.
