Master of Pharmacy

• Provide pharmacists with an opportunity for advance study in the pharmaceutical sciences and related disciplines.
• Provide South Africa with pharmacists with an advanced level of professional or scientific knowledge, insight and expertise in the Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• Equip pharmacists with research skills that will facilitate their employment at senior levels in academia, public/private hospitals, other health care institutions and pharmaceutical industries.
• Improve the health status of society, to raise the status of UD-W and South Africa as centres of excellence in applied research.

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1. Demonstrate adequate knowledge of research methodology/techniques as well as skills to effectively and independently design, implement, write up and evaluate research projects.
2. Identify and solve problems from a creative and critical perspective in terms of relevant theoretical frameworks.
3. Identify and use appropriate theoretical approaches, tests, advanced principles.
4. Appropriate decision-making and implementation of interventions.
5. Work effectively in a team, organisation or community setting - other health professionals and community members.
6. Work independently and make complex decisions about medical problems and interventions.
7. Create initiatives and opportunities for work in the field.
8. Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information.
9. Develop strategies for gathering relevant information to aid in problem identification etc.

• Write research proposals that indicate that learners are able to identify a problem and subsets of problems in Pharmacy and formulate research proposals.
• Formulate hypotheses.
• Select and utilise research instruments that are relevant in the research of problems in Pharmacy.
• Select and use appropriate data analysis methods to interpret the findings of an investigation.
• Conduct fieldwork during the actual investigation.
• Report the findings of investigation, and formulate recommendations that emanate from the findings.