The Fundamentals of Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Course 2024
This one year course is for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who are working in or are new to critical care to provide a structured training in the fundamental aspects of critical care pharmacy.
We are pleased to offer places on our Fundamentals of Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Course 2024
The course will be delivered virtually over Microsoft Teams using a range of teaching methods. Participation in the course will provide the knowledge and skills necessary to practice at foundation level.
How the course works
There will be a series of 12-14 ICU clinical topics covered over the course of the year, involving participant attendance at live course sessions over MS Teams each month, with pre-reading material to read/watch prior to the live sessions
You will receive a Certificate of Attendance if you attend all the sessions of the course over a year.
For those wanting further learning from the course, you can complete additional clinical tasks each month at your base site (such as case based discussions, and regular patient reviews (for pharmacists) ) and you will get a Certificate of Competence. For this you will need a local clinical supervisor (specialist ICU pharmacist, registrar or consultant to provide a local sign off)
The Faculty will comprise of the Specialist Critical Care Pharmacists and other members of our MDT.
For further details please click on the tabs in the top right corner
Who is this course for?
For registered pharmacists/pharmacy technicians:
Currently working in critical care and would like to expand their learning/skills
Who are new to critical care
Who cover critical care on weekends/oncall/during surge
Who work in other specialist areas, interested in developing an in-depth understanding of their critically ill patients
We are also pleased to offer a number of supported places to low and lower middle income countries (please see enrolment tab for more details)
Platforms needed to attend the course
Microsoft Teams- for live course sessions
To access course material
Gmail account to access the classroom
Smartphone to access live quizzes
The Faculty
Dr Rob Shulman Course Director
Lead Critical Care Pharmacist, UCLH and Honorary Associate Professor at UCL School of Pharmacy
Nishma Gadher Senior Critical Care Pharmacist, UCLH
Dr Dereck Gondongwe
Lead Pharmacist Education and Senior Critical Care Pharmacist, UCLH
Sandeep Rai
Senior Critical Care Pharmacist, UCLH
Meera Dalal
Senior Critical Care Pharmacist, UCLH, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosciences
Bryan O'Farrell
Lead Pharmacist Intensive Care & Theatres, Royal Free Hospital
Rakhee Mandalia
Senior Pharmacy Technician, UCLH
Shayena Begum
Pharmacy Technician, UCLH
This is the 4th year we have run this course. Here is some feedback from our previous attendees:
"Really good course that I highly recommend to be pushed out to more people to ensure they have the right skills prior to covering ICU. I wish I have done this course earlier in my career."
"I feel the course exceeded my expectations especially when we were going face to face in ICU and talking about the challenges we all faced together. I also learnt about new practices and the UCLH approach to different conditions."
"Really well organised and really lucky to be learning from very experienced pharmacists."
"Critical care pharmacy course is clinically oriented, that its gives me confidence and knowhow to manage ICU patients from the pharmacy point of view."
"The Critical Care course for Pharmacists is well thought out and quite apt, considering the health indices in the developing world; it will definitely help pharmacist in this part of the world contribute effectively via Pharmaceutical Care to the management of critically ill patients."
For further enquires about the course please email:
uclh.pharmacy.criticalcare.education@nhs.net