Advanced Education
We have a long and distinguished history of producing graduate pharmacists of the very highest calibre. Today, we offer some of the most advanced facilities in pharmaceutical education, including a Pharmaceutical Care Centre which enables students to simulate real-life clinical situations and demonstrate competence in the full range of skills required by modern pharmacists.
Undergraduate Course
The Master of Pharmacy Programme (MPharm)
The MPharm is of four years duration and is accredited by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. This programme will help you to develop an understanding of how the body works, the effects of disease, how drugs are delivered to and affect the body and, importantly, how to ensure that patients get the maximum benefits from medicines with the minimum incidence of side effects. The programme, at longest established School of Pharmacy in the UK, is at the forefront of innovative educational change and much emphasis is placed on experiential learning, supported by increasing amounts of placement provision, and the development of communication, counselling and prescribing skills which are aligned with the expanding role of the pharmacist in the NHS.
Postgraduate
- At postgraduate level the School of Pharmacy offers the award bearing MSc courses in Clinical Pharmacy and Prescribing Sciences and a short course on Pharmacist Independent Prescribing accredited by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB.
- Multi-professional input in course development and delivery from community and hospital practitioners enhances the quality and clinical perspective of the courses.
- Innovative web-based course delivery is facilitated by the Virtual Learning Environment offering considerable flexibility to students, enabling them to undertake the programme from home or the workplace. Short residential periods enable multiprofessional networking opportunities and the development of practice related skills.
- Learning credit can be transferred from the PgCert Prescribing Sciences to the Pharmacist Independent Prescribing course or vice versa.
Research
Research in the School of Pharmacy
Research in the School is represented by five main research areas:
- Biomedical Sciences
- Formulation and Delivery
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Pharmacy Education
- Pharmacy Practice
There are numerous collaborations within and between groups, as well as with colleagues in the other Schools within the faculty of Health and Social Care. Staff also have a number of external collaborations with clinical and non-clinical departments in other UK Universities. The laboratory-based research groups have excellent, newly-refurbished laboratories that are equipped to an exceptionally high standard that cater for the wide range of subject disciplines that contribute to the activities of the research groups. The School holds a fortnightly research seminar series link to page showing seminar programme.
