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Medway School of Pharmacy salutes its postgraduates

Medway School of Pharmacy is celebrating another 'first' after six of its students collected the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice.

The students, who were honoured in a ceremony at Rochester Cathedral last week, became the first cohort from the School to complete the Pg Dip GPP programme. The latter is a part-time, Master’s-level course run over three years, designed to equip registered pharmacists with the advanced professional skills and knowledge needed in their careers.

All postgraduates who completed the programme at Medway have been working within the NHS at hospitals in Kent and Surrey for the past three years. Their employers include Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

Medway School of Pharmacy is run jointly by the universities of Kent and Greenwich, and is based at the institutions’ shared Chatham Maritime campus. The School opened its doors to its first 80 students in 2004. Today it has more than 550 undergraduate and 100 postgraduate students, and runs a range of degree programmes for healthcare professionals.

Linda Dodds, Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice at Medway School of Pharmacy, said she was delighted to witness the students’ success. ‘Fitting studying around a full time job is a huge challenge and they should all be congratulated for their hard work and commitment,’ she said.

‘It has been a pleasure working with them and seeing them develop as pharmacists over the last three years. Everyone at the School wishes them every success in their pharmacy careers and we anticipate great things from them in the future.’

In 2009, Medway School of Pharmacy topped the table of higher education institutions in the National Student Survey, when students rated their education as the very best in the country.

It has also established a reputation for high quality, internationally recognised research, investing more than £1 million in both research scholarships and research consumables as part of its current five-year plan for expansion.

The School has also launched the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice for community pharmacists, meaning that all pharmacists – wherever they work – can benefit from a work-based approach to learning. For more details, please see www.msp.ac.uk.

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Story published at 10:36am 3 August 2010