Our highly-regarded MPharm course is designed to ensure you develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and professional attributes to practice as a pharmacist. The course lasts four years and you'll graduate as a Master of Pharmacy. The MPharm is the only undergraduate qualification in the UK which leads to professional registration as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). All newly qualified pharmacists will now be independent prescribers at the point of registration.

 

There is a huge demand for pharmacist independent prescribers, with a range of opportunities within primary care, secondary care and specialist sectors. We provide placements across all these settings to supplement our onsite teaching and simulation activities, while giving you experience of the range of career opportunities available to you.

 

The teaching on our course integrates the fundamental pharmaceutical, chemical, and biological sciences with clinical therapeutics and patient-focused clinical skills. We have state-of-the-art facilities to enable the simulation of healthcare settings, where we teach alongside patients and their carers, and other healthcare students during interprofessional learning sessions. Most of our clinical staff continue to work in practice as prescribers alongside their academic work, ensuring the currency and relevance of our teaching for the pharmacists of the future.

 

You'll be taught mainly in small seminar groups, where you'll explore clinical therapeutics, the management of disease, prescribing skills, and clinical skills. You'll also work in small learning groups during practice laboratory classes and dispensing classes.

 

Larger group or online lectures cover key principles and are delivered by experienced and research active academics in the field.

 

You'll study alongside student doctors, nurses, paramedics, and physiotherapists in interdisciplinary learning opportunities. We involve patients, their carers, and the general public in many of our teaching and simulation sessions.

 

We provide a longitudinal placement model in all four years of the course, in a variety of settings including community and hospital, to general practice and more specialist sectors, such as within a prison or hospice.

 

Assessment methods include examinations, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), assignments, essays, reports and presentations.