Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Queen's University BelfastAdvanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice PgDip is a postgraduate degree at Queen's University Belfast, based in Belfast, taught distance learning (part-time) over 2 years.
About this course
Do you want to advance your pharmacy career while continuing in employment?
This postgraduate distance learning programme allows you fit your studies around your work and family commitments.
Our Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Practice programme was developed following extensive consultation with pharmacists and their employers both within and beyond the United Kingdom. It provides a flexible study pathway that is designed to develop the therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills of pharmacists to an advanced level. The modules are designed to help pharmacists to acquire and demonstrate the advanced-level competencies defined in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum.
The MSc is open to pharmacists in all employment sectors although students must be able to undertake a project in either the primary or secondary healthcare sector in their final year. The MSc can be completed entirely off-campus by distance-learning and is therefore open to pharmacists both within and outside the United Kingdom.
The PG Diploma programme is open to pharmacists in all employment sectors. The PG Diploma can be completed entirely off-campus by distance-learning and is therefore open to pharmacists both within and outside the United Kingdom.
Students in Great Britain may select the Independent Prescribing option in year 2, which includes a compulsory 5-day clinical skills residential at Queen's.
The PG Certificate programme is open to pharmacists in all employment sectors. It is studied entirely off-campus by distance-learning and is open to pharmacists both within and outside the United Kingdom.
Study Options
This course is available in 3 study options:
Duration: 2 Years
Qualification: PgDip
Location: Belfast
Duration: 3 Years
Qualification: MSc
Location: Belfast
Duration: 1 Year
Qualification: PgCert
Location: Belfast
Career Prospects
Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations. Click through for salaries, employment rates and other UK degrees that lead there:
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Course Details
- Qualification
- Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip
- Study Mode
- Distance learning (part-time)
- Duration
- 2 Years
- Start Date
- 2025
- Academic Year
- 2025
- Campus / Location
- Belfast
- Scheme
- Postgraduate
- Subjects
- Pharmacy, pharmacology, and toxicology
2025-entry data — 2026 offers may differ