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PGCert Advanced Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine / Overview
Year of entry: 2021
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- Degree awarded
- Postgraduate Certificate
- Duration
- 1 year PT
- Entry requirements
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See the Independent Prescribing and Advanced Clinical Skills pages for specific entry requirements.
- How to apply
With one remaining cohort of the Advanced Clinical Skills course, there are two routes to the PGCert in Advanced Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine (ASTEM).
Route 1: This pathway is for pharmacists who completed the Independent Prescribing course at The University of Manchester and who have not used these credits towards another award, eg, PGDip/MSc Clinical Pharmacy. It requires completion of the Advanced Clinical Skills short course for which you need to apply by following the instructions on dedicated course page.
Route 2: If you have already completed an independent prescribing qualification at FHEQ level 7 at another university, you may be able to transfer a maximum of 15 credits to the award of PGCert in Advanced Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine. You must study the Advanced Clinical Skills short course and a further 15-credit unit:
Please note that there is no route to PGCert ASTEM for pharmacists with an FHEQ level 6 independent prescribing qualification, although it is possible to study Advanced Clinical Skills as a standalone course.
Please contact the Admissions Team to find out the deadline for applications: pgtaught.pharmacy@manchester.ac.uk
Course options
| Full-time | Part-time | Full-time distance learning | Part-time distance learning | |
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| PGCert | N | Y | N | N |
Course overview
- Learn to independently assess and manage patients with acute/urgent care needs, including prescribing.
- Study at a university ranked 5th in the UK for Pharmacy and Pharmacology (QS World University Rankings 2021).
- Fit part-time study around work through face-to-face and online study days.
- Pharmacists working in urgent/emergency care in an NHS organisation in NW England may be eligible to have course fees paid by Health Education England North.
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Fees
Fees for entry in 2021 have not yet been set. For reference, the fees for the academic year beginning September 2020 were as follows:
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PGCert (part-time)
UK students (per annum): £4,800
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Scholarships/sponsorships
Pharmacists with a level 7 independent prescribing qualification may be eligible to access a funded place on the final Advanced Clinical Skills cohort. However, the additional fees for PHAR63031 Mental Health or PHAR63041 Paediatrics (the top-up route) are not funded by Heath Education England North.
For the latest scholarship and bursary information please visit the fees and funding page.
Contact details
- School/Faculty
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
- Telephone
- (+44) 0161 543 4699
- pgtaught.pharmacy@manchester.ac.uk
- Website
- https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/pharmacy/
- School/Faculty
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Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
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