The ABPI have offices at 2nd Floor Goldings House, Hay’s Galleria, 2 Hay’s Lane, London, SE1 2HB, and currently adopt hybrid working – the exact number of days in the office/working remotely can be negotiable for the right candidate, so do not let location dissuade you from applying. All IT equipment required to undertake the project can be supplied to you.

The FPM have offices at 19 Angel Gate, 326a City Road, London EC1V 2PT and also adopt hybrid working, although ABPI offices would be the project base.

Andrew Croydon, Education & Examinations Policy and Partnerships Director

• • A CV and covering letter should be sent to Andrew Croydon, Education & Examinations Policy and Partnerships Director, ABPI (acroydon@abpi.org.uk)

The ABPI exists to make the UK the best place in the world to research, develop and use new medicines. We represent companies of all sizes who invest in discovering the medicines of the future.

Our members supply cutting edge treatments that improve and save the lives of millions of people. We work in partnership with Government and the NHS so patients can get new treatments faster and the NHS can plan how much it spends on medicines. Every day, we partner with organisations in the life sciences community and beyond to transform lives across the UK.

As part of ABPI’s work to communicate on the discovery, development, regulation and manufacture of medicines, we have an award-winning Resources for Schools website (https://www.abpischools.org.uk/) with interactive content and animations to support science teaching and learning for teachers and young people. The resources are in line with the curriculum, and many of them link topics studied in school to their application in industry and research. All our resources link science topics covered in school to the world outside and, particularly, to the treatment of disease.

The ABPI is offering an exciting opportunity for a PIPS student to apply bioscience knowledge in a science communication context.

The prescribing of medicines is the most common patient facing healthcare intervention and medical schools prioritise the teaching and learning of safe and effective prescribing. Despite this, medical students receive little or no exposure to the workings of the pharmaceutical industry in relation to drug discovery and development, medicines regulation, drug safety reporting and the maintenance of high ethical standards as a medical practitioner.

The ABPI first developed and provided medical education content to meet the above needs, through a pilot collaboration with a prestigious medical school and the Royal College of Physicians Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FPM).

The pharmaceutical medicine education content developed comprised 12 lectures developed by pharmaceutical physicians from both ABPI member companies and/or members of the FPM. The time commitment required to deliver all lectures f2f across multiple medical schools is a limiting factor to scale up of the existing model. Consequently, a virtual interactive offering was explored, resulting in successfully production in-house of a pilot package.

This 12 week project centres around the student conducting online research, liaising with subject experts or other external stakeholders as appropriate, training on use of in-house software for content creation, and drawing on the student’s own creativity and knowledge to digitalise the content from 11 of the original 12 lectures.

The output of the project is expected to include:

· Produce digitalised content covering all existing lectures

· Explore hosting the content on a delivery platform

· Presenting the package to external stakeholders as time and opportunity allows

The student will be working within the Education & Examinations team at the ABPI. The student will liaise with colleagues across ABPI, FPM and within ABPI member companies as required. Where there are opportunities for attendance at meetings or with pharmaceutical site companies, the student will be able to take advantage of these, alongside any other opportunities to build a personal network.