Master of Clinical Pharmacy Programmes - How to Choose?
Submitted by Tolo Harbour on Sun, 2008/04/27 - 1:49pm.
Some members have been seeking information about local and long-distance MClinPharm courses in order to make an appropriate choice. Just wondering any one of you had experience in this - afterall, I finished my own MCP with the CUHK nearly ten years ago, so things must have changed!
Some issues they'd like to know include:
Quality of teaching
Assessment methods
Workload demand
Convenience: time and location
Follow-up on projects
Clinical exposure
Whether you find it useful overall
The costs involved
How strongly you would recommend the course to other members
Thanks!
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Robert Gordon University
Difficult to contact with RGU. They did not send me the 8th module to me. I cannot finish my course till now.
Also, they will urge you to pay even though I did pay them the whole course fee already. Their account system is a chaos.
Master of Clinical Pharmacy, CUHK
The programme is well organized and the preceptors are very helpful in answering questions. There are lectures and case discussion conducted by physicians and professors.
UNI OF SUNDERLAND
Quality of teaching
Variable (same applies to all uni anyway) – but most lecturers are quite professional and upto date with national and international standards; more importantly, many of them are actual teacher practitioner so basically not only theorectical but they also sound at practical issues.
Assessment methods
I have yet to receive any homework from the school so hard to comment – but they are taking their time; however considering that they are based in uk so it may take abit of logistic time and effort (nothing to do with the laid back culture of the Brits so no offense)
Workload demand
2-3 pieces of coursework every month so quite manageable to us hardworking pharmacists.
Convenience: time and location
Well it depends where you commute from; HKUSPACE campuses are at convenient (in fact, prime) locations; most lectures were held at Admiralty
Generally one to two lecture or tutorials per module, spaced out every one to two months.
Follow-up on projects
As per above – painfully slow
Clinical exposure
In terms of physical exposure = zero; all teaching sessions are classroom-based.
In terms of coverage on relevant clinical topics and applications via case studies – not bad
Whether you find it useful overall
It is definitely useful for relieving knowledge crave; just that we may not have the chance of putting things into practice. (so intake, fully digested, expressed on paper, no way to excrete)
The costs involved
After shopping around I found courses offered by the three are pretty much the same so no pricing difference; duration-wise CUHK is more condensed (2yrs) while the Sunderland normally takes 3yrs.
Conclusion: I enjoy my course.