Overview

The Advanced Pharmacy Practice degree offered at the Robert Gordon University delivers a focused education, with content mapped to relevant professional development frameworks. The Pharmacist Independent Prescribing qualification is mandatory at the diploma stage.

There are also several elective modules appropriate to advanced practice, with opportunities for interprofessional learning with other healthcare practitioners through shared modules with the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Practice. You will have many opportunities to use and build on your experience of professional practice, enabling you to reflect analytically as a life-long learner. This career-enhancing course will develop your ability to make a positive impact on patients' lives..

Job Prospects

This course is designed to enable you to develop in the key competency areas for advanced practice including Pharmacist Independent Prescribing; the option of advanced clinical skills training as an elective module at the diploma stage complements this. The interprofessional nature of some modules offers opportunities to enhance multi-disciplinary team working.

The course has been designed in collaboration with employers across the profession, in community pharmacy, primary and secondary care and in other settings to ensure that it is kept up-to-date and in line with current practice and the demands of the workplace, benefiting you and your employer.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Pharmaceutical Care Planning

Therapeutics

Pharmaceutical Care Planning

Therapeutics

Pharmacist Independent Prescribing

Managing Long Term Conditions

Advanced Concepts of Improving Health and Wellbeing

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-02-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-19 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Chemistry Pharmacy Biochemistry View 23 other Masters in Pharmacy in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Lower Second Class

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants should have an 2:2 undergraduate honours degree in Pharmacy from a UK university, and two years post-registration relevant work experience* OR
An integrated Master’s degree in Pharmacy (MPharm), and two years post-registration relevant work experience* OR
The Overseas Pharmacists' Assessment Programme qualification and two years post-registration relevant work experience*
Additionally, applicants must be registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council or the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland.

Tuition Fees

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5210 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

3210 GBP / year

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Additional Details

UK/EU Students

£2,070 for stage 3

International Students

£3,370 for stage 3

Funding

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