Rate My Professor Tim Harrison

An academic dedicated to advancing the pharmacy profession through continuing professional development and lifelong learning, Harrison specializes in designing and delivering modular postgraduate education using distance and blended learning formats, integrating learning technologies and simulation. His teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy programs, focusing on clinical practice skills including complex decision-making, clinical reasoning, communication, consultation skills, medical law and ethics, and research concepts. He supports pharmacists in developing advanced skills, particularly for prescribing practice, to build a resilient workforce. Research interests encompass Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Education. Notable publications include 'How to use clinical reasoning in pharmacy' (The Pharmaceutical Journal, 2022, with P.M. Rutter and E. Mills), 'Differential diagnosis in pharmacy practice: Time to adopt clinical reasoning and decision making' (Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2020, with P.M. Rutter), and 'What influences prescribing decisions in a multimorbidity and polypharmacy context on the acute medical unit? An interprofessional, qualitative study' (Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2020, with P.H. Rivers, N. Langford, and A. Whitehead). Harrison serves on the Pharmacy Schools Council's Postgraduate Task and Finish Group and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Post-registration Foundation Assessment Panel. He teaches on the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy, Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing, and Masters in Pharmacy.