Queen’s University Belfast has developed an interactive pharmacy-based programme to encourage schoolchildren to engage with science.
Its School of Pharmacy has launched its Pharmacists in Schools initiative which will benefit over 400 pupils in 20 schools in Northern Ireland.
Under the scheme, children aged eight to 14 will be given the opportunity to be pharmacists for the day.
School visits
Staff and undergraduates from the School of Pharmacy visit each school in the scheme. Using props, they give children the opportunity to prepare “medicines” in response to prescriptions, label the medicines and dispense them.
The scheme also encourages the students to consider studying science-based career options. It aims to increase their awareness of the pharmacist’s role in the community and in health promotion activities.
In this way the children learn how pharmacists use scientific and medical knowledge to prepare medicines and to advise patients on their safe and effective use.
Learn more
Read about a career in pharmacy at MyScienceCareer.ie
View a video about the Pharmacists in Schools initiative
Learn more about the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University
