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Pharmacy Undergraduate Brochure MEDICINES MATTER At Reading School of Pharmacy, we pride We are ranked in the top 20 for Pharmacy The desire to ourselves on our teaching and research and Pharmacology in the UK1 and more achievements. We offer an exciting and than 85% of our research output is rated as take medicine innovative curriculum that integrates internationally excellent or world leading2. professional practice with strength in Our strength in research feeds into our is perhaps science. We use a variety of teaching teaching and enables our students to methodologies to deliver the curriculum, develop problem-solving skills and a deep the greatest making extensive use of electronic learning understanding of how research impacts all feature which platforms, and podcasting our lectures. Our areas of health. This provides you with the specialist pharmacist Teacher Practitioners skills fit for becoming a future leader in an distinguishes keep the course relevant and our staff are ever-changing pharmacy landscape. man from friendly, enthusiastic and creative. animals. Dr Katrina Bicknell William Osler, Physician Head of Reading School of Pharmacy 1849-1919 www.reading.ac.uk/pharmacy 1 11th in the Guardian University Guide for Pharmacy & Pharmacology, 2019, and 20th in the Complete University Guide for Pharmacology & Pharmacy, 2019. 2 Research Excellence Framework, 2014 – Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy. www.reading.ac.uk/pharmacy WALKING But for Catherine it didn’t end there. THE WALKHer determination to help her students have a greater understanding of their patients’ challenges has been further Catherine enhanced by the introduction of an Inter- Langran professional Learning Symposium. Catherine worked as a medical admissions Students have the opportunity to talk and anticoagulant pharmacist before to elderly patients and then get to moving into the Education and Training experience for themselves the everyday arena at Frimley Park Hospital – and got difficulties these patients face. the bug for teaching. For example, by wearing visual In 2011 she joined the University as a impairment glasses, students can Senior Teaching Fellow in pharmacy empathise with how challenging simple practice. “As soon as I arrived at Reading, tasks can become – like reading a I knew there was something I needed to medicine label, filling out a hospital bring to the course – and that was more menu or simply finding the toilet. hands-on experience of real-life patients. By putting on bariatric suits Training workshops and simulations are (which simulate being overweight) and useful, but nothing can beat the movement-restricting elderly simulation real thing.” suits, students discover how hard and True to her vision, Catherine launched stressful it can be for some people to the Healthy Living Assessment (HLA) get back up after experiencing a fall. later that year. “Today, empathy with the problems After training and competency tests, Year that patients face is paramount to 4 students are able to undertake a Healthy any would-be pharmacist,” Catherine Living Assessment on real patients. This summarises, “and there is no substitute entails performing a series of diagnostic for real, hands-on experience – which is tests to calculate the possible risk of something that I am determined every heart disease. They also consult with pharmacy graduate from Reading School the patients and discuss their lifestyle of Pharmacy walks into work with.” (such as diet, exercise regime and alcohol consumption) enabling them to give evidence-based healthy living advice. system diseases and their causes. charity and industry, academics are Developing more By mimicking features of healthy human helping to improve healthcare. At brains and brains affected by Alzheimer’s Reading, our particular strengths include relevant human in vitro disease, Angela’s work aims to identify neurobiology, cardiovascular disease, models of disease can help Dr Angela and test life-changing new drugs. crystallography, nanomedicine and health service innovation. us to better investigate the Bithell She also brings her research to her Try to imagine a dish that thinks it’s teaching. You might learn with her during Reading School of Pharmacy is also one underlying causes. As such, a brain. If you can, you can seriously your MPharm or BSc Pharmacology of the University’s key supporters of they may also help to identify start thinking about working studies and could be offered the equality. In fact, Angela leads the School’s alongside Dr Angela Bithell. opportunity to carry out your final Athena SWAN programme, promoting new therapeutic targets year research project alongside her the careers of women in science, and test pharmaceutical As a lecturer in Stem Cell Biology and have your name published on any technology, engineering and mathematics and Regenerative Medicine in the resulting research papers. (STEM), as well as Diversity and Inclusion drug candidates. Pharmacology division, her research in higher education. has led to the development of 3D Research within Reading School of ’brain network’ models in vitro. Pharmacy as a whole spans a broad “The result is a nice working environment, spectrum from study of molecules free from obstacles. We make sure that The in vitro models have been specially and chemistry, through formulation, both staff and students are aware of created to help us build a better diagnosis and pharmacology, to everything that’s in place to support them.” understanding of central nervous patients. With funding from government, JOURNEY INTO Physician Associates (PAs) are medically Samantha just like all our trainee trained professionals who work alongside PAs was taught by various MEDICINEother healthcare roles helping to diagnose healthcare professionals, such as patients, formulate management plans consultants and registrars, from the and, ultimately, make a real difference Royal Berkshire Hospital. in patients’ care. The role was first “The placements and guest lectures introduced into the NHS in 2003 really helped my career prospects. recruiting PAs trained in the USA. My neurology placement sparked Quick to see the potential of this new role my interest the most. I find the The world of healthcare The University of Reading working with brain so fascinating.” local NHS trusts and the Royal Berkshire is changing, and patient Samantha now channels her Hospital developed a postgraduate fascination of the brain into three needs are changing with it. programme to train PAs in the UK and is clinics at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. one of the first institutions to introduce Physician Associate’s have She runs a headache clinic, a nerve a new integrated master’s programme conduction clinic for patients suffering an integral and fundamental in physician associate studies (MPAS) from nerve problems in the upper allowing students to study to be a PA role to play as an integrated, limbs, and a Botox clinic for patients with straight after A-levels. neuromuscular disorders affecting the frontline, generalist clinician. Samantha Bautista was in the very first face and neck. We are educated, trained cohort of PAs at Reading, graduating from Alongside her three days a week at the our PGDip programme in 2017. She is now and equipped with the skills RBH, Samantha works with Dr Richard thriving in two roles for the NHS, splitting Perry – a GP and Lecturer on the PA and competences needed her time between jobs at the Royal programme – at his local Practice, and is Berkshire Hospital and a local GP surgery. to provide excellent patient Health Education England PA Ambassador “It is an exciting new way to practice Regional Lead for the South, helping to medical care. The role is medicine. When I visited the University promote the role of the PA to colleagues both varied and rewarding, of Reading, I got a strong sense that they in the NHS and prospective students. were really enthusiastic and passionate and is certainly an exciting about this new role in the NHS.” profession to enter. GROWING However, I was also delighted to be able to HOPE maintain formal links with the University of Reading, where I had the chance to flourish as a scientist and contribute Professor tangibly across a diverse range of work.” Ben Whalley Ben is evidence that a Pharmacy degree can lead to various opportunities. “Don’t be afraid to step sideways and Our graduates have careers in explore a new opportunity.” These are industrial pharmacy, community the words of Professor Ben Whalley – pharmacy, government and regulatory a pharmacist turned academic turned bodies, hospital pharmacy, education company director – whose own circuitous and research, and medical writing. career path is proof that there is more Employers from many of these areas than one route for a registered pharmacist. of practice attend the School’s annual Ben has been guided by his need to find careers fair, making it a good event challenge, surprise and satisfaction in his for finding work placements and work. While working as an independent job opportunities. locum pharmacist in the 1990s, he According to recent data, 100% of became interested in neuropharmacology. Reading School of Pharmacy graduates Ben sought a PhD opportunity and when are in work or further study within six he finished his postgraduate studies, he months of graduating.1 The numbers joined Reading School of Pharmacy. Here, speak for themselves, but what makes he led a research programme focused on Pharmacy graduates so employable? cannabis-derived medicines, particularly Ben has his thoughts: for the difficult-to-treat forms of epilepsy. In 2017, Ben took up the post of Director “Pharmacy provided me with a skillset of Research for GW Pharmaceuticals, and a mindset that I have always found a global leader in pioneering novel valuable in my roles. From the rigour therapeutics from the cannabis plant. of scientific thinking, through to the ability to consider the context of non- Ben’s work along with other members of clinical drug development, pharmacy the Pharmacology group resulted in FDA provides an incredibly diverse yet robust approval of a cannabidiol (CBD) containing foundation on which to build a career.” medicine.
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