Pharmacy, MPharm (Hons)

Embark on your pharmacy career at a globally top-10 ranked institution, as recognised by QS World University Rankings for 2022 and 2023. Our curriculum, co-designed with current students, integrates professional practice, drug prescribing, and patient care across therapeutic themes. Gain practical skills through simulated patient assessments, role-playing in our Simulated Clinical Suite at Queen's Medical Centre, and placements in community, GP, and hospital pharmacies. You will also manage a fully immersive simulated pharmacy, focusing on patient counselling, dispensing, and prescribing, while developing expertise in safe medicine use.Opportunities for study abroad in destinations like Malaysia, Canada, and Australia enhance your research and cultural exposure. The program progresses through foundational science in year one, advancing integrated drug, medicine, and patient modules in subsequent years, including a supervised research project. Final-year modules prepare you for mandatory one-year foundation training post-graduation, ensuring readiness for registration as a pharmacist.

In semester one of year one, you will explore the foundation science and professionalism that underpin pharmacy. This semester also supports your transition to living and studying university. Semester two introduces our integrated drug, medicine and patient (DMP) modules. Defined placement visits are structured into your timetable. In year two, The DMP modules continue to develop your integrated knowledge and understanding of how medicines work and their safe and effective use. Your professional skills and competencies will continue to develop through training in dispensing, law, ethics and pharmaceutical calculations. Defined placement visits are structured into your timetable. In semester one of year three, you will continue with the DMP themes, development of your professional skills and competencies and placement visits. In semester two you will undertake a supervised research project with the opportunity to select a topic across the range of science and professional practice research interests of our staff. The final year prepares you for the foundation training year. You will have DMP modules on the latest developments in drug discovery and future medicines. You will run a simulated pharmacy and be challenged with simulated patients allowing you to demonstrate your integrated knowledge, and professional and clinical skills.