Pharmacy

Course Overview

Why MPharm Pharmacy at UEA?

Develop your professional identity as a pharmacist, building strong scientific knowledge for patient care. Work with healthcare professionals in dedicated clinical suites and apply theory through placements and simulated patient interactions.

Why choose UEA

• Real experience: Integrated placements across the UK let you deliver blood pressure checks, vaccinations, and real care from year one

• Interprofessional collaboration: Learn alongside other healthcare professionals through shared teaching, clinical simulation, and placements

• Make a difference: Quality improvement projects enable you to fix systems, ensuring medicines are given on time and treatments are properly monitored

What is MPharm Pharmacy?

Pharmacy at UEA is designed around the way modern healthcare actually works — as a team. You’ll learn alongside other health students, sharing teaching, simulation sessions, and real placement experiences. In our state‑of‑the‑art clinical skills suites, you’ll practise patient consultations and collaborative decision‑making, building confidence in interprofessional communication.

Integrating world-class science with hands-on clinical practice you’ll learn from experts with over 20 years’ experience training every level of the pharmacy profession. Be supported to develop as a reflective practitioner; gaining real life experience and tracking your progress in communication, leadership, teamwork, and patient‑centred decision‑making.

Working across hospitals, GP practices and community pharmacies, pharmacy leads to exciting careers in prescribing, research, industry and patient care, shaping the future of modern healthcare.

Disclaimer

Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: www.uea.ac.uk

Course Modules

In Year 1, you will cover the foundations of pharmacy, undertaking modules such as Life Sciences Chemistry and Foundations in Pharmacy Practice. In your second year, you will engage in more complex topics such as Neurophysiology, Synaptic Pharmacology and Endocrinology. In Year 3, you will develop your pharmaceutical and clinical knowledge undertaking modules such as optimising Patient Care through Pharmacy and Evidence-Based Care of Cardiovascular and Renal Disease. In your final year, you will be able to use the previously learned knowledge in complex situations for the benefit of patients. Modules include Pharmaceuticals Research Project and Clinical Therapeutics of the Central Nervous System.