Independent Prescribing for Pharmacists University of Portsmouth

Overview

If you're an experienced practicing pharmacist and want to further your career in a specialist area, joining our PgCert Independent Prescribing for Pharmacists course is the perfect way to fulfil your ambitions.

On this course you'll develop your clinical examination and consultation skills, and build on your understanding of pharmacology and therapeutics, to inform evidence-based management decisions alongside patients within your chosen scope of practice. 

When you graduate, you'll be qualified for a career as an independent prescriber within a clinical setting.

On this course, you'll:

• Learn from experts in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, and the School of Health and Care Professions
• Get hands-on experience in clinical examination and history taking
• Study topics including pharmacology and therapeutics for prescribers, clinical skills for prescribers, and professional aspects of prescribing
• Improve your counselling and consultation skills in our practice dispensary facilities, where you'll consult with patient actors
• Build on your clinical simulation experience in our clinical skills suite, featuring a Laerdal human patient simulator
• Be supported by experienced clinical pharmacists as you develop your competencies portfolio

Career development

What can you do with a Independent Prescribing for Pharmacists qualification?

Graduates have gone on to take roles in:

• Mental health
• Rheumatology
• Minor ailments
• Pain management
• Nutrition
• Travel medicine
• Critical care
• Cardiology
• Renal disease
• HIV medicine
• Respiratory and dermatology

We'll provide you with as much support as possible in finding employment through contacts, careers events, recruitment fairs and individual advice.

Entry requirements for this course

Contact University of Portsmouth to find course entry requirements.

View foundation and pathway programmes to help you meet academic and language entry requirements.