Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy

  • Type: Graduate
  • Credit Hours: 36hrs
  • Language : English
  • Campus: Al Ain

Overview

About the Program

Our Masters in Clinical Pharmacy is a program designed to support pharmacists to develop the knowledge, clinical skills and behaviors required to provide more patient-centered care as part of multidisciplinary healthcare teams.

 

Vision

To revolutionize clinical pharmacy practice and healthcare through interdisciplinary education, training and research.

 

Mission

Our mission is to educate and inspire a diverse group of professional clinical pharmacists to be leaders, advance patient care, and improve health for all.
We seek to create, disseminate, and apply new knowledge that endows our graduates with the skills, abilities, behaviors, and attitudes necessary to apply the clinical sciences to the provision of inter-professional patient-centered care, management of medication use systems, advocacy of population health and wellness, and collaborative discovery and implementation of solutions to today’s and tomorrow’s healthcare problems.

 

Objectives

The following are the MSc. Clinical Pharmacy program’s educational objectives (PEOs):

  1. Provide students with advanced knowledge and practice of clinical pharmacy
  2. Enhance critical thinking and problem-solving skills through conducting clinical research of graduate level
  3. Graduate professionals who are able to advance pharmacy practice in different clinical settings
  4. Graduate clinical pharmacist able to utilize evidence-based medicine and high standards of ethics in decision-making process

 

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this program, the graduate will be able to:

#Program Learning OutcomeAligned with L9 QFE Descriptor
1

Demonstrate a comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge in delivering specialized clinical services required, building on the existing knowledge of disease states, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and therapeutics to be implemented in the clinical practice

QFE 2, 3, 5
2

Design a complex personalized pharmaceutical care plans, considering comorbidities and socioeconomic factors to optimize patient health outcomes

QFE 4, 7
3

Demonstrate effective inter-professional teamwork in complex clinical situations, ensuring accurate and reliable communication with specialist and non-specialist audiences (e.g.: healthcare providers and patients)

QFE 5, 8
4 Detect, predict, prevent, and report adverse drug reactions, medication errors, and other aspects of medication safety. Provide advanced and specialized recommendations for patient safety QFE 1, 2, 8
5 Critically evaluate the literature and undertake practice-based research to enhance problem-solving skills and employ it into the clinical practice. QFE 7, 8
6

Utilize self and continuing professional learning skills at an advanced level to continuously enhance pharmacy professional practice.

QFE 1, 5
7

Apply ethical and evidence-based pharmacy practices in complex decision-making processes.

QFE 9

 

Job Opportunities 

 Leadership Positions

As a clinical pharmacist, your opportunities to be a leader are greatly expanding. All pharmacists are leaders in their everyday practices by successfully influencing the behavior of physicians, nurses, pharmacy technicians, interns, support staff, and others to enhance medication safety and optimize patient outcomes. Formal leadership positions are also available to those interested. Within these roles, practitioners may hold many different titles and responsibilities while working with other health care professionals in promoting superior patient care:

  • Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
  • Clinical Manager
  • Clinical Coordinator
  • Clinical Pharmacy Operations Manager
  • Pharmacy Supervisor
  • Pharmacy Assistant Director
  • Pharmacy Associate Director
  • Pharmacy Director

 Academia and Clinical Pharmacy Careers

Clinical pharmacists interested in teaching can working in universities and teaching in colleges of pharmacy.

 Research-Oriented Careers

The demand for clinical pharmacist scientists is becoming more widespread within the healthcare arena. Clinical scientists can oversee clinical development strategies, design studies, and analyze data for publication. Other areas include participation and leading preclinical studies on new technologies, and developing protocols for pharmacogenomics and biomarkers. Clinical research does not only involve a “lab-type” research setting. Clinical research also involves studies of human subjects, not limited to surveys, cross-sectional, case-series, case-control, cohort, and first-in-human studies, proof-of-principle projects, and all phases of clinical trials.

Hospital careers

  • Different departments in the hospital
  • Polyclinics and health complexes
  • Centers for drug information and toxicity control

 

Admission Requirements

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  • A Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or its equivalent is approved by the UAE Ministry of Education with a minimum (GPA) of (3 out of 4) point scale, or its equivalent on the Bachelor's level.
  • A valid English Language Proficiency Certificate in one of the below certificates or its equivalent, at least as the following:
EmSATTOEFL ITPIELTS Academic
1400 550 6
* The exception to this requirement applies to students whose mother tongue is English and who finished a Bachelor’s degree from an institution where English is the language of instruction in an English-speaking country.

Conditional Requirements

If a holder of a bachelor's degree with a CGPA of (3.00 to 4) or equivalent, and does not meet the English language condition set above, he/she should:

  • Register in no more than (6) credit hours of courses studied for the graduate program during the conditional acceptance period.
  • Achieve at least (3 out of 4) or equivalent, in the first semester of study. Otherwise dismissed from the program.
  • At the end of the first semester of the program, the student will achieve at least a mark ( EmSAT 1400), TOEFL 550 or ( IELTS 6) or equivalent exams.

If a holder of a bachelor's degree with a CGPA less than (3 out of 4) or equivalent, and meets the English language condition, he/she should:

  • Register in no more than (9) credit hours of courses studied for the graduate program during the conditional acceptance period.
  • Achieve at least (3 out of 4) or equivalent, in the first semester of study. Otherwise dismissed from the program.

If a holder of a bachelor's degree with a CGPA less than (3 out of 4) or equivalent, and does not meet the English language condition set above, he/she should:

  • Register in no more than (6) credit hours of courses studied for the graduate program during the conditional acceptance period.
  • Achieve at least (3 out of 4) or equivalent, in the first semester of study. Otherwise dismissed from the program.
  • At the end of the first semester of the program, the student will achieve at least a mark ( EmSAT 1400), TOEFL 550 or ( IELTS 6) or equivalent exams.

  • (2.5 out of 4) or equivalent, he/she will be considered for admission if he /she has achieved a maximum of nine graduate-level credit hours as remedial preparation for the graduate program. These remedial courses are not for credit within the degree program. The student must achieve a minimum CGPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or its established equivalent, in these nine credits of remedial courses in order to progress to the graduate program or be subject to dismissal.

 

Graduation Requirements

To obtain a “Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy”, a student must successfully complete 36 credit hours, including 24 credit hours of didactic courses, 6 credit hours of the clinical and a dissertation of 6 credit hours. with minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3 out of 4.

Study Plan

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Guidance Plan

Course Description

Structure of Clerkship Training

Structure of Clerkship Training

  • Clerkship duration

Clerkship duration is 24 weeks divided into 6 rotations (4 weeks each rotation). This clinical training will be conducted in Department of Health- Abu Dhabi approved clinical settings. The rotation should cover four weeks’ rotations in each of the following five mandatory clinical (core) rotations:

  • Internal Medicine-1: Endocrinology, pain management, neurology, and hepatology and hematology units
  • Internal Medicine–2: Respiratory, Gastroenterology, nephrology and cardiology units
  • Critical or Intensive Care
  • Ambulatory care
  • Surgery

In addition to another 4 weeks of elective clinical rotations. Elective clinical rotations should fill reminder of the weeks dedicated for clinical clerkship training:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Psychiatry care
  • Pediatric care
  • Gynecology and Obstetrics
  • Oncology care

Students have to complete the first year successfully and pass the pre-clerkship exam before they can proceed for training. Students have to do a total of six rotations, each one will be four-weeks long. These hours will be arranged on individual bases based on hospital policies, availability of preceptors, and students’ timeframe.

Clinical Rotations

Clinical clerkshipsCredit HoursDuration (weeks)Duration (hours)
Internal Medicine-1 1 4 160
Internal Medicine–2 1 4 160
Critical or Intensive Care 1 4 160
Ambulatory Care 1 4 160
Surgery 1 4 160
Credit hours and contact duration 5 20 800
Infectious Diseases 1 4 160
Psychiatry Care 1 4 160
Pediatric Care 1 4 160
Gynecology and Obstetrics 1 4 160
Oncology Care 1 4 160
Total credit hours and contact duration 6 24 960

Contact us

Director of Master in Clinical Pharmacy Program 

College of Pharmacy

Al Ain University
P.O. Box. 64141 Al Ain - United Arab Emirates

Tel. : +971 3 7024888  
Fax : +971 3 7024777