Overview:

Become the point of contact for patients for the safe and effective use of medicines. Our four-year Pharmacy programme prepares you for a successful career as a pharmacist in community or hospital settings.

Hosted at the Medway School of Pharmacy, our fully accredited programme is based on three interlinked themes: practitioner and patient; medicines design and manufacture; the patient; and disease and drug action. Our curriculum is outcomes-focused and designed to prepare you for your future professional practice. You study basic and applied science as well as clinical and professional practice, all in the context of patient care. You will also undertake external placements throughout your course, so that by the time you graduate you have the skills and the confidence to kickstart your career.

The MPharm programme is centred around three main themes; the medicine, the patient and the professional. These aspects come together and are integrated through demonstrating patient care around integrated cases. We have a strong focus on developing professional actualisation and working with other health and care professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team working around, and improving the care of, patients and the public. The importance of learning from and about a range of health and care is developed through the programme.

A range of teaching methods will be used from traditional lectures and video recordings, seminars, tutorials, laboratory sessions, practical's, online work, reading, independent study, reflecting on assignment feedback and practice-based learning.

This will be delivered in person, online (using computer aided learning) and via patient-simulation with our standardised patients. This is supported by developing our high fidelity simulations enabling the provision of a realistic and safe environment supporting the development of knowledge and skills.

Application and demonstration of knowledge and skills through teaching and learning is critical to embedding learning. The placement in the workplace further builds on this and contextualises practice whilst also building links with a range of health and care professionals.