Continuing Education
Graduate Certificates and Modular Courses (Stand-alone Courses)
NUS Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences aims to complement the national effort towards continuing education and lifelong learning and contribute towards enhancing relevant personnel skills set and manpower availability to make Singapore competitive in the pharmaceutical and allied industries, as well as the healthcare sector at large.
To this end, modular courses (stand-alone courses) are designed and delivered to cater to targeted groups of prospective students who are already working in or are aspiring to enter the pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical or community-based clinical care settings industry. These courses provide up-to-date knowledge and technical know-hows to facilitate the upskilling or re-skilling of adult learners towards that transformation and adaptation in their areas of practise.
By positioning these courses as stand-alone courses, the contents and skills training are more targeted and complete on their own. It allows a lower entry-barrier for adult learners to pick and choose the relevant courses in accordance to their needs and interest, and to learn them at their own pace over time. We envisage these courses to benefit learners who are exploring their interests, needs and aptitude in a new or expanded area, without having to commit to a full qualification programme upfront.
At the same time, the modular courses provide adult learners with the option of accumulating credits for a few similar courses, and subsequently working towards a graduate certificate (2-4 modular courses). We now have three graduate certificates: Graduate Certificate in Pharmaceutical Process and Technology; Graduate Certificate in Advanced Pharmacy Practice; Graduate Certificate in Community-based Geriatric Pharmaceutical Care.
Application period for Jan 2025 intake: 4 Oct 2024 – 1 Nov 2024
Certificate of Essential Therapeutics in Clinical Pharmacy (CETCP)
NUS Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science promotes the development of clinical pharmacy with this certificate which strengthens participants’ pharmacotherapeutic skills through online and in-person learning. The program is targeted at any healthcare professional with a Bachelor of Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, or equivalent interested in learning how to better manage patients’ medication therapy. The online learning materials cover 13 therapeutic areas which are then reinforced in live case-based workshops at NUS. The Certificate culminates with an assessment on campus which if passed leads to a Certificate from the NUS Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science.
Pharmacy-based Immunization Delivery Certificate Training Program
NUS Department of Pharmacy is the first licensed partner of American Pharmacists Association (APhA) in Singapore to conduct the Pharmacy-based Immunization Delivery Training Program. It is based on national educational standards for immunization training from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This practice-based curriculum represents a fusion of science and clinical pharmacy. The program, which emphasizes a health care team approach, seeks to foster the implementation of interventions that will promote disease prevention and public health. The purpose of this certificate training program is to prepare pharmacists with comprehensive knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to provide immunization services to patients across the life span.
Cardiometabolic, Renal & dIabetes Optimisation Unified Services (C-RIOUS) Workshop
This all-in-one workshop seeks to provide new budding practitioners a broad understanding of cardiometabolic diseases collectively and provide practical tips for management. It will cover topics on cardiometabolic diseases in totality, cardiology (hypertension & lipids), endocrine (diabetes & Obesity), renal and more. Participants will go through an in-person workshop and 4 hours of clinical shadowing.