Undergraduate Masters in Pharmacy (MPharm)

A personal tutor will support you throughout your degree. They will be an academic member of staff who can provide individual academic and pastoral support. We also have a Senior Tutor based in the School of Pharmacy. They are available to our pharmacy students and staff as a source of advice and information relating to student wellbeing. You'll also have access to a peer mentor in your first year – a fellow student who can help you settle in and answer any questions you have.

What you will study

Our MPharm degree will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge base to contribute to high-quality patient care. Through a varied range of teaching methods, you will develop a strong base of theoretical and academic knowledge related to:

• the structure and function of the human body
• abnormal pathology
• chronic disease management
• pharmacology and medicinal chemistry
• cutting-edge pharmaceutical science
• injections, implants, and transdermal delivery systems

You will develop practical skills to enable you to excel in professional practice, such as:

• effective communication and consultation with patients
• clinical examination skills and physiological monitoring
• law and ethics as it applies to pharmacy
• medicine management systems
• prescribing and decision making 

We develop your academic and research skills to help you complete your degree and prepare you for a research career, should you wish to pursue one.  Skills include: 

• conducting research
• literature searching
• academic writing
• statistics 

You'll also undertake many hands-on clinical placements during your degree. This will prepare you for work as a patient-focused professional. These are an essential part of our pharmacy programme and introduce you to the varied settings in which pharmacists work.

At Newcastle, you’ll benefit from inter-professional learning opportunities. You will work and train alongside professionals and other students in the Faculty of Medical Sciences. This will develop your understanding of pharmacy within the complete healthcare system.