Pharmacy with Integrated Pre-registration Training MPharm

University College London

The five-year MPharm with Integrated Pre-registration Training is primarily aimed at international students who want to complete the Pharmacy degree and UK pre-registration training whilst maintaining their student status. After graduating, students will be ready to apply for registration as a UK Pharmacist. We offer you the opportunity to become a confident and competent healthcare professional with patient safety and wellbeing as your primary concern.

Degree benefits

• The UCL School of Pharmacy has a long tradition of academic and research excellence and is internationally recognised as being one of the leading pharmacy schools worldwide. It is ranked seventh in the world for Pharmacy and Pharmacology (QS World University Rankings 2021).

• The five-year MPharm programme integrates the year of pre-registration training into the undergraduate MPharm programme, enabling students graduating from this programme route to immediately become eligible to sit the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration examination.

• The fifth year placements in community and hospital pharmacy are guaranteed for all students on the five-year MPharm programme.

• The programme includes contact with patients from the start, in the form of pharmacy visits and patient interviews. You will have the chance to study abroad during the fourth year.

Your learning

You will be exposed to many different styles of teaching and learning. The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, practical classes, tutorials, problem-solving classes, clinical seminars and workshops, skills workshops with patients, journal clubs, independent learning, visits to hospital and community pharmacies and clinical placements.

Assessment

Your performance is assessed through a combination of coursework, essays, MCQs, practical exams (OCSEs), portfolios, work-based assessments, short answer questions and extended written case studies in examinations as well as integrated examination questions and a research project. Coursework contributes about 40% and examinations about 60% to your final mark (Years 1-4).

Careers

MPharm Pharmacy with Integrated Pre-Registration Training graduates must pass the GPhC registration examination to qualify as a professional pharmacist. As a pharmacy professional you will be a frontline healthcare provider and can have a direct impact on people's lives and health.

Many pharmacists work in community pharmacies on the high street or in supermarkets. Another popular branch of the profession is hospital pharmacy, working closely with doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals and specialising in areas such as cancer, paediatrics, HIV and surgical. An emerging role is the clinical pharmacist working in GP surgeries and care homes.

There are also career routes into industry and academia. Industrial pharmacists work in research and development, production, quality control, clinical trials, product registration and medical information. Those choosing to stay in the academic world undertake teaching and research.