Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Mike Vickers

Mr Mike Vickers

Teacher Practitioner

Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Division of Pharmacy Practice
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
University of Portsmouth
St Michael's Building
White Swan Road
Portsmouth
PO1 2DT

mike.vickers@port.ac.uk

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Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Dip Clin Pharm, MRPharmS

Internal memberships / posts

Facilitator for inter-professional learning

External memberships

Member of RPSGB Academic Pharmacy Group
Member of Joint Programmes Board for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education in the South East

Key teaching responsibilities

Level 1: Inter-professional learning
Levels 2 & 3: Wound management, dermatology, hospital pharmacy
Level M:  Therapeutic frameworks, oncology and integrated cancer care, evidence-based prescribing.
MSc:  Endocrinology, diabetes, pharmacokinetics, hypnotics, evidence-based medicine

Key research interests

Clinical psychiatry
Pharmacy education
Undergraduate placements and their role in the MPharm programme
Hospital pharmacy practice
Pharmacokinetics and its’ practical applications in the hospital environment
The understanding of legal and pharmaceutical aspects of drug storage and administration by hospital practitioners
The teaching of clinical pharmacy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels