Pharmacy

Study pharmacy at Sheffield and develop the knowledge, clinical skills and professional attributes you need to qualify as a pharmacist and support patients across a variety of settings.

Pharmacists are experts in medicines working with patients to improve health outcomes, by providing public health interventions, advice on treatment and prescribing.

Our innovative four-year pharmacy course is designed to give you the essential knowledge, skills and attributes needed to support patients as a reflective, ethical and professional pharmacist and prepare you for evidence-based prescribing. It is for people who enjoy science, are passionate about working with the public, and want to help improve people’s health and well-being.

We take an integrated approach to teaching, looking at all aspects of medicines, from design through to patient care. You will draw on the expertise of subject specialists including registered and practising pharmacists and other healthcare practitioners, building your expertise in consultation, clinical reasoning and teamwork. You will be supported in your journey through your personal tutor and professional mentor.

From day one, you’ll learn from patients, through both our Patients as Educators programme and our placements in community, hospital and primary care, ensuring your development as a truly patient-centred practitioner.

Why study this course?

• Learn from real patients: Put your theory into practice in a safe, supportive environment. Learn from real-life patients from our Patients as Educators programme to practise your physical assessment, decision-making, and communication skills.

• Experience your future career first-hand: You’ll spend a significant time on placement, in a range of community, hospital and primary care settings. Through these placements, you will experience working with patients and other pharmacy professionals (pharmacists and pharmacy technicians) and observe the roles of other healthcare professionals in practice.

• Unique social accountability placement: Sheffield pharmacy graduates will be 'of their community and for their community.' You will complete a unique, social accountability placement with one of over 130 partner charities or community organisations, where you’ll develop and deliver activities that have a positive impact on health and wellbeing.

• The University of Sheffield is working towards accreditation of this programme with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). The programme will be provisionally accredited until the accreditation process is complete. After being awarded your MPharm degree, you will need to complete a 12-month structured foundation training period and assessment, leading to registration as a Pharmacist with the GPhC.