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Pharmacy MPharm

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    Key Information

    • Study Level:

      Bachelor

    • Duration:

      4 Years

    • Study Mode:

      Full Time

    • Tuition Fees EU/EEA:

      £ 9,250 Per Year

      These fees apply to students from the EU/EEA

    • Tuition Fees International :

      £ 18,500

      These fees apply to students from outside the EU/EEA

    institution

    Aston University

    Aston University was founded in 1895, and has been noted for the quality of its research, teaching and industrial cooperation for more than 100 years. Since the turn of the last century, it has been very highly rated for graduate employability both nationally and internationally..

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    Course Summary

    Pharmacy is a very broad subject, incorporating not just clinical, patient-facing practice but also the development, design, supply, delivery and control of drugs and medications of all kinds. Aston University’s MPharm degree program is a 4 year course of study designed to give graduates the skills they will need to become pharmacy practitioners, either under the NHS or in the private medical care sector. It was developed in consultation with health care providers, industry regulators, major employers of pharmacists and with the patients themselves.

    Aston’s MPharm is ranked among the UK’s top ten pharmacy programs by the 2017 Complete University Guide, and provides a world class education to 170 new students every year. The program is very much patent-focused. It includes a range of casework, clinical scenarios and problem based learning to convey the practical skills pharmacists need in addition to the scientific background they will rely upon every day.

    If you are changing direction after starting in another career area, you will possess valuable work experience and professional awareness. Many employers actively seek candidates with these benefits. Our network of contacts, a dedicated employability service and a reputation in the legal profession mean we also have an outstanding track-record of finding students legal employment.Many employers favour GDL students in an increasingly competitive legal job market. Through studying another degree subject, you will have gained many transferable skills. By taking the conversion route into law, you are showing motivation and determination by choosing law at a later stage than some others. This looks good to employers.

    If you are changing direction after starting in another career area, you will possess valuable work experience and professional awareness. Many employers actively seek candidates with these benefits. Our network of contacts, a dedicated employability service and a reputation in the legal profession mean we also have an outstanding track-record of finding students legal employment.Many employers favour GDL students in an increasingly competitive legal job market. Through studying another degree subject, you will have gained many transferable skills. By taking the conversion route into law, you are showing motivation and determination by choosing law at a later stage than some others. This looks good to employers.

    Course Outline

    Year 1 Modules

    • Cell and Molecular Biology
    • Drug Molecules, Mechanisms and Analysis (pharmaceutical chemistry)
    • Formulation and Optimisation of Medicines: How medicines are made
    • Introduction to Pharmaceutical Patient Care
    • Introduction to the Practice of Pharmacy
    • Pharmaceutical Calculations
    • Physiology (how the body works)
    • Professional Studies: Effective Learning, Career Management and IT 

    Year 2 Modules

    • Medicine Supply: Law and Practice
    • Medicines Optimisation through Formulation
    • Pharmaceutical Microbiology: Pharmacogenomics, Pharmacogenetics and Immunology
    • Professional Workplace and Scientific Communication Skills
    • Spectroscopic Analysis of Medicines
    • The Pharmacological basis of Clinical Care

     

    Year 3 Modules

    • Applied Clinical Skills: applying scientific knowledge to real patient cases
    • Chemotherapy and Selective Toxicity
    • Medicinal Chemistry: Analysis, Metabolism and Drug Discovery
    • Neuropharmacology
    • Personal and professional development: preparing for your project and your pre-registration
    • Pharmaceutical Formulation III
    • Quality assured Pharmaceutical Technology: Aseptic parenteral and radio pharmaceutical delivery

    Year 4 Modules

    • Clinical pharmaceutics and drug delivery
    • Interprofessional learning
    • Practical Therapeutics
    • The Professional Pharmacist: Medical law and medicalisation
    • Essential Skills: Research Project

    Learning And Teaching

    Students at Aston University’s MPharm program will experience many different teaching methods, including clinical patient simulations and other computer based learning, group work and problem solving exercises, hospital and clinical placements, interactive workshops, small tutorials and large lecture classes. You will also do quite a bit of individual study. Your assessment will be based on your examination results, your portfolio, your project work and computer exercises as well as on your essays, reports and delivered projects.

    Career Possibilities

    The most recent DLHE survey conducted shows an incredible 100% of Aston’s MPharm graduates in graduate level employment within 6 months of completion. They have become Clinical Pharmacists, Pre-Registration Pharmacists, Hospital Pharmacists, Dispensing Assistants, Pharmaceutical Trainees, Project Managers, Senior Clinical Pharmacists and even Directors of pharmacies for organisations like the NHS, Boots, Superdrug, Tesco, the Cooperative Pharmacy, GSK and many individual hospitals and NHS Trusts.

    Entry & Credit

    This course grants you a 4 year MPharm degree.   

    Applicants must typically have achieved 3 A Levels at ABB or higher including Chemistry as well as at least one other science such as Biology, Physics or Maths. International equivalents and other qualifications are accepted. Full details can be found here.

    English language requirements for international students can be found here.

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