Curriculum

The School of Pharmacy was established in 2003 and is based in the College of Medicine and Health, which also comprises Schools of Clinical Therapies, Dental School and Hospital, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Midwifery. The School enrolled the first class of 50 undergraduate students for the B. Pharmacy degree in September 2003.

From September 2015 students who enter the UCC Pharmacy programme will graduate with a Level 9 MPharm degree. This programme will educate students to provide the highest level of pharmaceutical care as part of a health care team and will cultivate an ideal environment and necessary infrastructure conducive to interdisciplinary approaches to addressing research challenges relating to the translation of genomics, protomics and metabolomics into effective therapies.

The degree adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on existing expertise in key disciplines across UCC including Pharmacology, Chemistry, Physiology, Microbiology, Anatomy and Biochemistry, all of which have expertise in the education of students in the health professions at undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional levels.

Modules

The teaching of subjects in the School of Pharmacy, and indeed throughout the University, is modularised.  Each year is worth 60 credits of modules.  Each module is given a certain weighting of credits, depending on the course content.  Listed below are some of the modules which will be taken by the pharmacy students throughout their five years of study.