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Online English for Pharmacy Course
Helping healthcare professionals improve their medical English.

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CPD accredited course

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Course Overview

Pharmacy is a trillion-dollar industry where the lingua franca is English. This 20-hour, online course is deigned specifically for those working in pharmacy or studying pharmacy who want to use English more proficiently at work, in research or in their studies.

 

At the end of this course, you will have learnt the English you need to discuss pharmacy in many areas. You will also have created the basis for further, more detailed English language study in specialist fields.

 

The course is designed for students with an upper-intermediate or advanced (B1orB2) level of English.

The English course covers the language you need to describe important areas of pharmacy, including:

 

Drugs and drug classification

Nomenclature

How drugs work

Describing data

Describing the industry

Developing new drugs

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The course is dynamic and engaging. It includes video, audio, articles, vocabulary, recording and pronunciation activities.

Online Course Content

  • An Introduction to Pharma

  • An Industry Overview

  • Drug Classification

  • Pharmacological Classification

  • Analysing Similarities and Difference with in Classes

  • How Drugs Work

  • Major Therapeutic Targets

  • Drug Interactions

  • Working on Receptors

  • Working on Enzyme

  • The Lock and Key Analogy

  • Designing New Drugs-Key Criteria

  • Drug Nomenclature

  • Matching Chemical, Generic and Trade Names

  • Using Mathematical Language

  • Describing Graphic Data

  • Developing New Drugs

  • The Drug Discovery Timeline

  • The Drug Development Process

  • The History of Pharmaceuticals

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