Pharmacy (Professional MSc)

Entry requirements

The Masters programme is structured to be suitable for pharmacists from all areas of professional practice and is flexible to your own learning needs and the needs of your employer.

Entry to the Masters year requires satisfactory completion of a postgraduate Diploma award that is associated with one of the relevant Keele programmes, or an ‘equivalent’ postgraduate Diploma award from another university. Candidates who wish to gain direct entry after having completed a Diploma at another university will have to provide full details of the syllabus covered/assessment strategy for consideration with their application to Keele. Decisions on the equivalence of other diplomas to allow entry to the Keele Professional MSc are at the Programme Manager’s discretion.

Months of entry

February

Course content

Please note, all course information including entry requirements relates to the 2022/23 academic year.

The Professional MSc year is structured to ensure it meets the need to build greater research capacity for the profession and the NHS. The three modules that comprise the year provide the knowledge and skills for you to develop your own research project and carry this out in your workplace.

The programme is open to pharmacists working in all areas of practice.

The Masters programme is taken over one year and it is structured to be suitable for pharmacists from all areas of professional practice and is flexible to your own learning needs and the needs of your employer.

Our MSc is grounded in an individual’s professional practice. It enables you to advance your practice and develop research skills and it maximises the experiential learning opportunities that being in practice offers, and this means that the findings are directly applicable to your work.

The MSc gives you the opportunity to evaluate an area of your professional practice, of interest to you, for the benefit of both yourself and your workplace.

The learning materials are delivered on-line. Induction and student progress sessions occur ‘virtually’ so there is no requirement for you to attend Keele. You will undertake a 6 month service evaluation or research project and we strongly encourage you to publish the results of their work and will provide support to enable you to do this.

The course team have a proven track record of success in developing Masters level researcher-practitioner leaders in professional pharmacy practice and we can offer high quality supervision in a wide range of research methodologies.

You may be able to obtain funding towards our Professional MSc programme. Two current funding streams that we are aware of are:

NPA Health Education Foundation Bursary for Community Pharmacists http://www.npa.co.uk/About-the-NPA/Who-we-are/Health-Education-Foundation/

Pharmacy Research UK awards http://www.pharmacyresearchuk.org/pharmacy-research-funding/personal-awards-2/

Information for international students

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ENTRY REQUIREMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

If English is not your first language, you must either:

Hold a degree from a school where English was the language of instruction

OR

Take the IELTS (average of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in all categories)

Please note that IELTS exams must be no more than two years old at the start of the programme for which you have applied.

Fees and funding

For information related to fees and funding, please visit the individual course page on the Keele University website.