Postgraduate Medicine 2024-2025

This course focuses on prescribing governance and the professional aspects of prescribing practice along with the advanced clinical skills required to be a competent independent/ supplementary prescriber.

This course constitutes one part of the SCQF 11 Independent and Supplementary Prescribing Programme. Those students who wish to register with their governing body as Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribers will have to successfully complete this course together with the course- Applied Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Clinical skills for Prescribing.

A prerequisite for undertaking this course is the successful completion of both Fundamentals of clinical method and decision making (I) and Fundamentals of clinical method and decision making (II) courses or equivalent.

This course focuses on the clinical pharmacology and therapeutics together with related science knowledge and clinical skills required for safe and effective advanced practice in medicines management and prescribing.

This course constitutes one part of the SCQF 11 Independent and Supplementary Prescribing Programme. Those students who wish to register with their governing body as Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribers will have to successfully complete this course together with the course Prescribing in Practice course.

A prerequisite for undertaking this course is the successful completion of both Fundamentals of clinical method and decision making (I) and Fundamentals of clinical method and decision making (II) courses, or equivalent.

This course will enable the experienced practitioner to gain knowledge, skills and experience in their chosen field of practice.  The experienced practitioner as part of their continuous professional development will identify an area of practice they wish to develop in and map their learning and assessment to the course learning outcomes in order to develop in practice whilst gaining academic learning and credits. 

This course will enable the experienced practitioner to gain knowledge, skills and experience in their chosen field of practice.  The experienced practitioner as part of their continuous professional development will identify an area of practice they wish to develop in and map their learning and assessment to the course learning outcomes in order to develop in practice whilst gaining academic learning and credits. 

Advanced clinical practitioners must engage with quality and safety improvement. Most adverse events are medication-related, so drug safety competencies are essential. Human Factors explores how people interact with work systems. This course introduces systems-thinking principles and a ‘Human Factors toolkit’ to support safety, quality and better learning from adverse events. This course is for those interested in patient safety, especially those undertaking non-medical prescribing courses.