Dr Rowan Yemm
Lecturer
- yemmr@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5805
- Redwood Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB
Overview
I am a lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the Cardiff University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. I am Associate Course Director of the postgraduate Independent Prescribing programme. I am also lead for further Professional and Educational training courses (also known as CPD) offered by the School.
My MPharm undergraduate teaching contributions include health psychology and behaviour change, Practice of Pharmacy and dispensing, and advanced consultation skills. I also teach research methods at postgraduate level. I am an active member of the School’s Research Ethics Committee
Qualifications
- MPharm, University of East Anglia, 2009
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 2010
- PhD in Pharmacy Practice, University of East Anglia, 2014
- Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning, 2016
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016
Biography
Publications
2020
- Wale, A. et al. 2020. Unlicensed “special” medicines: understanding the community pharmacist perspective. Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice 2020(9), pp. 93-104. (10.2147/IPRP.S263970)
2018
- James, D., Yemm, R. and Deslandes, R. 2018. A novel behaviour change learning activity for pharmacy undergraduate students. Pharmacy Education 18, pp. 311-318.
2017
- Yemm, R., Jones, C. and Mitoko, T. 2017. Displaying medication costs on dispensing labels as a strategy to reduce wastage: views of the Welsh general public. Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice 6, pp. 173-180. (10.2147/IPRP.S145567)
2014
- Yemm, R., Bhattacharya, D. and Wright, D. 2014. What constitutes a high quality discharge summary? A comparison between the views of secondary and primary care doctors. International Journal of Medical Education 5, pp. 125-131. (10.5116/ijme.538b.3c2e)
Teaching
Undergraduate 2019-2020: Health psychology and behaviour change; Practice of Pharmacy and dispensing; Advanced consultation skills. Previously: child health; responding to symptoms; law and ethics; male and female health.
Postgraduate 2019-2020: Independent Prescribing; Research methods; MUR accreditation
Research skills
- Qualitative interviewing and analysis
- Questionnaire design and quantitative data analysis
- Discrete Choice Experiment design and analysis
Research interests
- Health psychology and behavioural change
- Optimisation of communication between care settings, use of information technology and inter and intra-professional collaboration at hospital discharge; working cultures in healthcare settings
- Medication errors
- Cost of medication and medicines wastage