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PM-344
Capstone Project
The aim of this module is to provide a capstone experience to students¿ learning, through participating in their own enquiry-based research project, with guidance from an academic supervisor. 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 the life sciences. It will ask a research question and involve the critical analysis of research findings. Students will refine their oral and written communication skills to a graduate level through an oral presentation and dissertation on their research findings and conclusions.
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PMP101
Health, Disease and Patient
An in-depth understanding of human body systems, 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 exploring the body¿s essential cellular and molecular processes . It builds on this platform to explore how cells and different organ systems function and interact to maintain a healthy physiological state It also explores the consequences of dysfunction in these systems to disease and the body¿s response to infection, nutritional imbalance, and heredity. The learner will use this knowledge to gain a basic understanding of how drugs and therapeutics can be used to manage these conditions. To achieve these learning objectives, the HDP module focuses on the integrated areas of Cell Biology; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology; Microbiology; Genetics (Cellular & Molecular Biosciences), Anatomy and Physiology; Pharmacology & Therapeutics. The HDP module will be delivered using various teaching resources and methods including didactic, experiential, problem-based and interactive learning. Also, the concept of integration is introduced incrementally 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 those modules may also be covered during this module to ensure that students' scientific knowledge relates to and informs their clinical practice. Skills in professionalism will be reinforced and contextualised via the Pharmacist as a Professional (PMP-100) module.
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PMP201
Patient-Centred Learning I (PCLI)
The PMP201 is the first of the three Patient-Centred Learning (PCL) modules delivered in Years 2 &3 of the B230, M.Pharm Pharmacy (Hons) programme. This semester-long (11 weeks) module encompasses 4 vertically integrated study units (ISU), including cardiovascular (CVS), respiratory (RES), Infection (INF) and gastrointestinal (GIS). Further, PMP201 horizontally spirals up with the 7 subject themes: pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, cellular & molecular biosciences, anatomy & physiology, pharmacology & therapeutics, clinical pharm223acy, 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) to the patient and people-centred professional scenarios. The module aims to enable students to transfer knowledge from educational and psychological, pharmaceutical, 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 in the transferable skills, including recognition, responsible action, problem-solving, ethical, and emotional intelligence, decision making and others.
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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 B230 M. Pharm Pharmacy (Hons) programme. This semester-long (11 weeks) module encompasses 5 vertically integrated study units (ISUs), including central nervous system (CNS), 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)
This module continues to build on the skills developed in ¿Patient-Centred Learning I and II (PCLI and PCLII)¿ modules. Subject themes (Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Biology & Biochemistry, Anatomy & Physiology, Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice) within the semester-long ¿Patient-Centred Learning III¿ module are intercalated by ¿vertical¿ integrated study units focussing on the endocrine system, nutrition, cancer, genitourinary and vaccines.
The module aims to enable students to transfer knowledge from educational and psychological, pharmaceutical, pharmacological theories into solving problems and making decisions in new previously unseen patient-related situations with increasing complexity as compared to PCLI and PCLII. This learning will be supported by robust contextualisation of science into pharmacy practice and working along other healthcare professionals through trans-disciplinary teaching and learning and extensive clinical exposure in the Pharmacy Skills Suite and in placements.
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PMP303
New Knowledge (NK60)
This module aims to develop your knowledge in the areas of Research Methodology and Enquiry:
This module allows students to develop in-depth knowledge of research methodology and enquiry through designing and conducting a research project (under the directions of one or more project supervisor) 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, pharmacy education and public health. The module stimulates research enquiry skills and enables students to conduct a laboratory-, literature-, data-, fieldwork-, computer-based research projects.
Content will include research methods, literature review, data analysis, a poster and a dissertation.
