Clinically Enhanced Independent Prescribing PgCert - Postgraduate MA/MSc courses

Study the Clinically Enhanced Independent Prescribing Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) at Aston University, Birmingham to enhance your practice as a clinician and delivery of care to your patients while gaining a General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) accredited qualification.

The Clinically Enhanced Prescribing PgCert has been designed to enhance your practice as a clinician and delivery of care to your patients, and is suitable for all clinical specialties.

Taught predominantly online and the in-practice learning environment, this accredited qualification will enable you to evaluate and challenge prescribing practice with reference to evidence based practice, equality and diversity and clinical governance, and develop clinically enhanced skills relevant to your specialist area.

The aims of the programme are to enable you to:

• Develop the knowledge, skills and clinical confidence to prepare students to become safe independent prescribers, working effectively within a health care team.
• Develop clinical enhanced skills relevant to specialist area i.e. acute or emergency medicine, mental health, paediatrics.

When achieved, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate person-centred care.
• Demonstrate professionalism as a prescriber.
• Demonstrate professional knowledge and skills commensurate with being an independent prescriber.
• Demonstrate clinical and professional collaboration with patients and other health care workers.
• Understand, apply and assess clinical skills and knowledge appropriate for a prescriber working within a clinical specialty to support the clinical management of patients.
• Utilise clinical and professional collaboration with patients and other health care workers.

More detail of module content covered in the 45-credit core practice certificate, and 15-credit standalone modules can be found on the individual course pages.

• A 2:2 (or above) UK Honours degree, or equivalent internationally recognised qualification, in an Engineering, Science or technology subject. Other qualifications and relevant experience will be assessed on an individual basis.

As well as:

• Two professional references - at least one must be from an academic referee
•  A completed application form.

To be accepted onto our programmes, you must be able to satisfy the University's English language requirements. The level required will depend on the programme you are applying for. We strive to make your application process as easy as possible, however in all cases we reserve the right to request an English language qualification and / or conduct an interview.

We accept a wide range of English language qualifications including:

• IELTS Academic
• TOEFL
• PTE Academic
• TOEFL iBT Home Edition
• Password
• Duolingo English Test (for entry onto Pre-Sessional English programmes, and direct entry courses starting in January 2022 and September 2022, excluding Aston Medical School, OSPAP, and Postgraduate Research degree programmes).
• Kaplan International Tools for English (KITE) 

Successful candidates will enhance their confidence, skills and practice as an autonomous clinician. Enabling full management of patients assessment, medication and condition as a clinically enhanced independent prescriber. 

The programme will:

• enhance your career opportunities
• enable you to become a holistically focused practitioner
• empower you to focus on person centred care provision.

You may also wish to consider the PgCert in Advanced Health Assessment at Aston to further advance your clinical expertise. In addition, you have opportunity to progress to the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, delivered at Aston by the Academic Practice Unit.