Collaborative Practitioners Prescribing Programme (CP3)

Fees

	International Participants	Singapore Citizens		Singapore PRs
		39 years old or younger1	40 years old or older1
Full Programme Fee	SGD26,325.00	SGD26,325.00	SGD26,325.00	SGD26,325.00
Less: SSG Grant Amount	Not Applicable	SGD18,427.50	SGD18,427.50	SGD18,427.50
Nett Programme Fee	SGD26,325.00	SGD7,897.50	SGD7,897.50	SGD7,897.50
9% GST on Nett Programme Fee	SGD2,369.25	SGD710.78	SGD710.78	SGD710.78
Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST	SGD28,694.25	SGD8,608.28	SGD8,608.28	SGD8,608.28
Less Additional Funding if Eligible	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	SGD5,265.00	Not Applicable
Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST,after additional funding	SGD28,694.25	SGD8,608.28	SGD3,343.28	SGD8,608.28

¹Age as of 31 Dec of the year of enrolment

Programme Overview

The Collaborative Practitioners Prescribing Programme (CP3) prepares APNs and pharmacists to prescribe under a Collaborative Practice Agreement with a medical practitioner(s). Collaborative prescribing involves assessing the patient, considering treatment options, reaching a shared decision, prescribing, providing patient education, monitoring and reviewing of the patient. Through this programme, the individual will acquire skills and competencies in history taking, data interpretation, diagnostic formulation, physical examination, clinical decision making, applied therapeutics, psychosocial aspects of prescribing, collaboration with multidisciplinary team, effective communication and documentation.

The programme is designed to build on the basic skills already acquired in the APNs’ and pharmacists’ training. The core components comprise of areas involving safe and professional prescribing, as well as improving prescribing practice and prescribing as part of a team. The core competencies required include inter-professional collaboration, understanding prescribing systems, and professional and ethical considerations of prescribing. Based on differences in baseline skillsets of APNs and pharmacists, a portion of the curriculum is conducted separately to strengthen areas requiring further skills development in the two professions to perform collaborative prescribing

 

Eligibility Criteria

Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs):

1. Candidates must be working in an area with existing or potential need for Collaborative Prescribing service, and
2. Candidates must have identified a clinical supervisor who, together with his/her team, will provide supervision to the candidate during the clinical practicum.

Pharmacists:

1. Candidates must be at least 3-year post-pharmacist registration with experience in direct patient care setting and working in multidisciplinary / team-based practice for at least 1 year,
2. Candidates must be working in an area with existing potential need for Collaborative Prescribing service, and
3. Candidates must have identified a clinical supervisor who, together with his/her team, will provide supervision to the candidate during the clinical practicum.

 

Assessment

CP3 trainees will undergo the following assessments:

• Mock OSCE(s)
• Formative OSCE
• Summative OSCE
• Final Written Examination
• A series of portfolio reviews comprising of an 80-hour clinical practicum with a clinical supervisor chosen by the trainee
• E-learning courses & quizzes

 

Application

Applications for the upcoming intake are opened on Online Application Portal (OAP) (https://myapplications.nus.edu.sg/). Hard copies applications are no longer required.

One set of CP3 Statement of Intent form must be completed and uploaded onto OAP in pdf, together with the supporting documents listed below (uploaded as separate documents on OAP).

• Singapore NRIC (both front & back) or Passport
• Passport-Sized Photo
• Current Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• SPB/SNB Practising Certificate (both front & back)

Click here to download the CP3 Statement of Intent form.

Guides for uploading documents on OAP and submitting an application:

• CP3 OAP App Guide_(Corporate Sponsored)

• OAP-User-Guide

 

Learning Materials

Consultation and Physical Assessment

General approach to patient

Calgary Cambridge consultation model by RCSI Perdana JC1 Medical Humanities
How to get your FIRST MINUTE right in the CSA Exam by Aman Arora
How to use ‘ICE’ efficiently in the CSA Exam by Aman Arora

Consultation/History-taking skills

CSA – 1st five minutes.m2ts by Matthew Smith
Clinical communication skills – verbal communication – version 2 of 2 by U of Nottingham

Communication skills

How to form a MANAGEMENT PLAN in the CSA Exam by Aman Arora

Physical assessment and clinical examination

New! Macleod’s Clinical examination 13th edition by Iain Hennessy

Suggested Reading

OSCEs for Medical Finals (2013) by Khan, H; Khan I; Gupta, A; Hussain, N; Nageshwaran, S

The patient history: an evidence-based approach to differential diagnosis (2012, 2nd ed.) by Henderson, Mark C; Tierney, Lawrence M., Jr; Smetana, Gerald W

History Taking – Authored by Dr Colin

History and Physical Examination – Authored by Dr Roger Henderson

Interpreting Diagnostic Tests and Procedures

ECG interpretation

http://www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com/ecgs/ecg-interpretation/

https://geekymedics.com/understanding-an-ecg/

https://lifeinthefastlane.com/ecg-library/

ABG Interpretation 

http://www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com/abgs/abg-interpretation/

https://geekymedics.com/abg-interpretation/

https://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/acid-base-interpretation/

 

For more details, please visit the NUSMed Edu-CET page here.

For further inquiries, please contact:
NG Dick Sheng (Mr)
Email: dicksheng@nus.edu.sg

TEO Xin Yi (Ms)
Email: teoxinyi@nus.edu.sg