Professional and Personal Development
Through professional and personal development we will ensure that our graduates have a strong identity as pharmacists and scientists, which in turn will allow them to demonstrate professionalism and integrity, as well as to truly appreciate the societal impact that they will have within healthcare or health science.
We ensure that the development of students' professional identity is fully integrated throughout our programmes, offering opportunities for students to learn about, and practice key aspects of professionalism, as well as engaging with professional role models. Key areas of focus include:
- Preparedness for practice
- Fitness to practise cases
- Unconscious bias
- Professional identity
- Moral reasoning and ethical dilemmas
- Professionalism (social media, smoking tobacco and alcohol, use of cognitive enhancers, and promotion of products that lack evidence of effectiveness)
Consideration of the health and wellbeing of our students is another aspect of personal and professional development. 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 in the enhancement of our students' professional identity, in a manner considerate of their health and wellbeing, and of those who'll they'll interact with as professionals.
- Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmacy students: Usage and views on professional issues
- A questionnaire study investigating future pharmacists’ use of, and views on cognitive enhancers
- An investigation of final year pharmacy students’ moral reasoning ability, and their views on professionalism and fitness to practise panel determinations: a questionnaire study
- Topic analysis of UK fitness to practise cases: What lessons can be learnt?
- Do you have any ID? Exploring opinions and understanding of Year 4 MPharm students on professional identity
- Use and views on social networking sites of pharmacy students in the United Kingdom
- Pioneering an Unconscious Bias Educational Activity with Pharmacy Students
- Future Pharmacists’ Opinions on the Facilitation of Self-Care with Over-the-Counter Products and whether this should remain a core role
- 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