Month: April 2026

We’ve added dark mode to the BPS Assessment eLearning portal and wanted to let you know in case it’s useful to pass on to your students.

 

It’s a small update but one that can make a genuine difference for learners doing extended revision sessions. Prolonged exposure to a bright screen increases eye strain and can affect concentration, so giving students the option to switch to a softer display is a straightforward way to support more comfortable and sustainable study habits. For those working on laptops or tablets away from a power source, dark mode also uses less battery on OLED and AMOLED screens, which is a minor but practical benefit.

 

Everything else on the portal works exactly as before and students can switch freely between light and dark mode at any time. We’ve put together a short video showing how to find the setting and toggle between modes.

 

Watch the video

 

Dark mode is available now across desktop and mobile with no downloads or updates required.

 

Interested in seeing what the BPS Assessment platform can do for your institution?

If you’ve been thinking about how to strengthen prescribing education within your programme we offer demonstrations of the full BPS Assessment platform including the EPS Simulator, Prescribing Skills Assessment tool and our customisable platform licensing option which lets institutions build their own assessments and eLearning around their own learning outcomes. Whether you’re looking to complement existing teaching or explore something more integrated, we’re happy to talk it through and show you around.

 

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The British Pharmacological Society recently published an updated curriculum for the teaching of clinical pharmacology, therapeutics and prescribing in medical degrees and if you work in medical education it is well worth a read.

 

Prescribing a medicine is the most common patient facing healthcare intervention, and the process is a complex one. The curriculum sets out the core knowledge and skills that graduating doctors will need as a foundation for safe and effective prescribing throughout their careers. 

 

The curriculum is divided into four sections and the first covers the principles of clinical pharmacology, giving students the foundations they need early in their degree. The second is a suggested student formulary, a core list of drugs that a graduating doctor should know in some depth. The third addresses therapeutics, covering the clinical conditions and their pharmacological treatment that every graduating student needs to understand. The fourth focuses on prescribing and related skills. 

 

Importantly, the curriculum is designed to be flexible in how its content should be delivered. Individual medical schools are best placed to decide how to use it within their own programmes and it is designed to serve as a supportive framework for mapping learning rather than a rigid instruction. 

 

The updated curriculum was produced through a modified Delphi process involving experts with a broad experience of clinical pharmacology education from across the United Kingdom, and was overseen by a steering committee of expert educators in the field.

 

At BPS Assessment, a number of our eLearning modules and assessments already align closely with areas covered across the four sections in the curriculum. If you are reviewing how your teaching maps to the updated guidance, our resources may be a useful complement.

 

Get in touch with the BPS Assessment team if you would like to find out more.

 

You can view and download the full BPS curriculum here