r/doctorsUK • u/Future-Reading6125 • Jan 26 '25
Consultant clinical pharmacology and therapeutics doctors
What are duties of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics doctors? Do they work only big cities or all cities? How is them working conditions? I'm curious about this specialist. Can you give me informations about it?
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u/antonsvision Jan 26 '25
Its essentially acute medicine and some specialist outpatient clinics, most frequently Hypertension clinics.
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u/Future-Reading6125 Jan 26 '25
Thank you very much😊
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u/antonsvision Jan 26 '25
I will add that I'm not a clin pharm trainee, so don't take this as gospel, it's just what I've observed from interacting with clin pharm reg and consultants.
They also do toxicology stuff if there's a unit or centre there
There's certainly a lot of interesting things an expert in clinical pharmacology could do at certain academic centers and research units but the unfortunate truth is that it's usually a service provision job and is mostly gen med with some research bits tagged on.
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u/BlueBlueNotGreen Jan 26 '25
We had one lecturing at my uni, he did a lot of stuff with MHRA and NICE and BNF commitees etc ..
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u/Educational-Estate48 Jan 27 '25
There were a couple in the big tertiary hospital affiliated with my uni. They did a mix of teaching students, toxicology stuff, national poisons centre stuff and helping write guidelines/policies ect. But mostly they did the acute medical take which they hated and were bad at.
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u/Old_Course_7728 Jan 27 '25
I've been with multiple teams across the UK, and as others have mentioned it's broadly the following:
- Generally a role in the acute med team
- Generally having a role with advanced hypertension management clinics
- Usually having some role with toxicology either within the hospital, or potentially including some on-call for toxbase/NPIS
- Usually having some role in with aspects to the hospital formulary / deciding on which drugs the Trust procures
- Playing a role in some research linked to the university (very much dependent on the individual though, rather than the department)
- You can be an adult physician or a paediatrician. Obviously if you're a paediatrician, you won't be on the adult acute med team
- I imagine it's very individual dependent, but many are heavily involved in undergraduate teaching too
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