LONDON Department of Pharmacy, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 8WA
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King’s college offers a four-year programme leading to the MPharm degree. It aims to produce graduates having the scientific and professional knowledge with personal and transferable skills necessary for practice in all branches of pharmacy and to support continuing pharmaceutical and professional education throughout their careers. The department was rated “excellent” in the recent QAA audit. King’s college operates a personal tutor scheme and all first year students are offered places in college halls of residence. The department is housed in the new Franklin-Wilkins building along with other departments of the School of Health and Life Sciences. This building is part of the college’s Waterloo campus on London’s South Bank, opposite the Stamford Street student apartments and close to the Strand and Guy’s campuses of the college, as well as London’s South Bank arts and entertainment centre. The programme starts with a 12-week foundation module on the basic sciences of pharmacy and continues to the end of the third year with four teaching streams covering the scientific and professional knowledge base. The streams cover the drug, its formulation, the disease and its treatment, and the profession; they are linked through integrated studies and topic weeks. Coursework is continually assessed and contributes 30 per cent to the marks during years one and two, and 40 per cent in years three and four. Satisfactory performance is mandatory for progression through the programme. The final year course consists of a research project, clinical pharmacy (including ward and general practice visits) and two electives (examples include chemical mediators and disease, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical microbiology and biotechnology, pharmaceutical phytochemistry, hospital pharmacy, medicines control, plants and pharmacy, science of dosage form design, receptor pharmacology, language modules and Erasmus placements). A research project is undertaken by all students in their final year, which may be laboratory or field-based. The programme makes use of traditional lectures, laboratory classes, workshops and computer-aided learning and has a purpose-built pharmacy studio for teaching professional communication skills. Postgraduate degrees and diplomas offered are: diploma in community pharmacy, MSc in community pharmacy; MSc in biopharmacy; MSc in pharmaceutical analysis and quality control; and MSc in pharmaceutical technology. The department has an international research reputation based on six research groups: peptide pharmaceuticals; metallopharmaceuticals; bioactive natural products; biopharmacy and drug distribution; drug delivery and absorption; and pharmacy practice. Research programmes leading to MPhil and PhD degrees are offered by all groups.
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