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Community Pharmacy

Doctorate in Pharmacy

KEY FEATURES: The Community Pharmacy programme offers community pharmacists the opportunity

KEY FEATURES: The professional doctorate (Doctor of Pharmacy; DPharm) provides the opportunity

to enhance their knowledge in therapeutics and offers a wide range of learning to enable pharmacists to

for pharmacists to achieve the highest academic qualification in a progressive way related to their

feel more confident to develop and deliver high quality services. It is delivered online at a distance and

professional and career development. The course is mainly delivered by distance learning. You will be

there are no compulsory study days. The Programme is fully supported by a team of experienced, friendly,

fully supported by academic tutors at Keele.

and approachable academic, administrative and technical staff based at Keele and also supported by our
network of experienced, practising community and primary care tutors.

WHO IS IT FOR? Candidates for the DPharm programme must be pharmacists or pharmacy
technicians who are registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), or equivalent for

WHO IS IT FOR? Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), or

applicants working overseas, and working full-time or part-time in an appropriate organisation where

equivalent for pharmacists working overseas, and be practising either full-time or part-time within

they are permitted to conduct work-based research and evaluation.

community practice or primary care. It is also essential that you have the support of your workplace to
access patient data where necessary for course learning activities and assessment.

LEVEL: DPharm.

LEVEL: MSc; Postgraduate Diploma; Postgraduate Certificate.

MODE OF STUDY: Part-time by distance learning.

MODE OF STUDY: Part-time by distance learning.

LENGTH OF PROGRAMME: The minimum amount of time to achieve a doctorate is four years and
the maximum time allowed is seven years.

LENGTH OF PROGRAMME: Normally PG Certificate (one year); PG Diploma (two years); MSc (three
years). Students have a maximum of five years to achieve their final award.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Candidates must have a: Postgraduate Master’s degree in a relevant
subject, or MPharm, minimum 2:1, and a postgraduate pharmacy diploma, or postgradu