Health and Wellbeing
OUR COMMITMENT TO HEALTH AND WELLBEING
We will emphasise the importance of mental and emotional resilience throughout each of our programmes, allowing us to develop well-rounded professionals who are fully equipped to work in an inclusive, empathetic, and adaptable manner.
OUR INNOVATION IN PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND ISSUES
Consideration of the health and wellbeing of our students, and those whose lives they'll work to improve is a key area of focus within our programmes, and we make use of various innovative approaches to develop these characteristics in our students. Key areas of innovation are related to:
- Managing study and professional stress
- Resilience
- Veganism
- Mental health
- Achievement goal orientations
- Self-care and use of OTC medicines
Below, you'll be able to read more about our ongoing innovation which helps to ensure that our educational activities are considerate of the health and wellbeing of our students, and those who'll they'll interact with as professionals.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
- Associations between achievement goal orientations and academic performance among students at a UK pharmacy school
- A questionnaire study to investigate stress among future pharmacists by gender and year group
- UK pharmacy students’ opinions on mental health conditions
- The resilience of final-year pharmacy students and aspects of the course they found to be resilience-building
- Veganism: Are future pharmacists ready to provide advice?
- Pharmacy students’ use and views on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines: a questionnaire study
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Our scholarship
MORE SCHOLARSHIP THEMES
Teaching, Learning, and Skills