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248 | Pharmacy
Pharmacy
MPharm
Why study this course?
You’ll benefit from innovative and inclusive teaching and state-of-the-art
facilities, whilst gaining practical experience through placements in hospital,
community and industrial settings. The skills you gain from this course will
prepare you for your future career.
The treatment and prevention of disease with medicines remains at the
heart of the global healthcare system. Pharmacists play a key role in
many aspects of the design, development, delivery, and optimisation of
the use of medicines and related products. They are clinicians and scientists,
with strong management and communication skills. These skills ensure
that pharmacists are highly effective in community pharmacy, hospitals,
GP surgeries, the pharmaceutical industry, academia, regulatory affairs
and public health. Pharmacists promote the safe and effective use of
medicines and ensure the highest quality patient care. Often, they are
the first point of information for the public and other healthcare
professionals, and as such must be effective communicators.
All aspects of the Pharmacy programme are taught in dedicated, well-
equipped facilities using a wide variety of teaching methods. Placements
form an important learning experience throughout all years of the course
giving you the opportunity to place your learning in context within
different working environments.
What will this mean for my future?
Graduates from this course will have a portfolio of skills that are
attractive to potential employers in primary care, hospitals, community
pharmacies and in the pharmaceutical industry both in the United
Kingdom and globally. Throughout the course, you will be able to assess
which areas of pharmacy are of most interest to you and practising
pharmacists will be available to provide advice. MPharm graduates need
to complete a statutory one year pre-registration period and the GPhC's
registration assessment to qualify to practice.
INDICATIVE MODULES
• The programme provides a truly
integrated and fully contextualised
MPharm degree. Each year of the
programme is based on a single
120-credit module that spans both
semesters.
Core Topics include:
• The roles required of the modern
pharmacist
• The underpinning science essential
for the practice of pharmacy
• Legal, ethical and professional
aspects of healthcare
• Service quality and standards
applying to pharmacy
• Understanding the signs and
symptoms of illness
• Improving the public’s health
• Medicines management
• Advice to other healthcare providers
KEY INFORMATION
UCAS Code - B230
Foundation Year
Yes
Indicative entry
requirements
Single Honours
A level: AAB-ABB
BTEC: DDD
Course duration
4 years
For further information on entry requirements please visit keele.ac.uk/entryrequirements