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The pharmacy school offers a broad-based four-year MPharm (Hons) course that aims to provide students with all the skills required for the rapidly evolving pharmacy profession. The school is completing an extensive refurbishment with state-of-the-art laboratories in which students gain practical experience in pharmacy practice (incorporating professional and clinical pharmacy), pharmaceutical manufacturing, microbiology and sterile production, pharmacology and pharmaceutical chemistry. Practical training is given alongside lectures, tutorials and workshops that together provide a strong foundation in the science that underlies the modern pharmacy profession. The course has a modular structure, allowing effective integration of the different components of pharmacy training, as well as allowing third and fourth year students to tailor some parts of the course to their own interests. In the final year, students spend some time with one of the school's internationally acclaimed research groups. Much of the pharmacology teaching is integrated with that of medical and nursing students, thereby fostering association between the professions from an early stage. Specialists from local hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry, a team of teacher-practitioners from community and hospital pharmacies, and other professionals from the university contribute to the teaching. Teacher-practitioners and clinical pharmacists provide work-based experiential learning. Teaching is by a mixture of lectures, practical classes and workshops, problem classes, small group tutorials and computer-aided learning (CAL). The school has extensive facilities for personal computing and CAL. Throughout the course emphasis is given to the development of students' intellectual, personal and communication skills. Assessment is through a combination of continuous assessment (coursework) and written examinations which are held at the end of each semester. The first year (qualifying year) examinations determine progression to the second year, but do not contribute to the final degree classification. The university is one of the UK's leading institutions for teaching and research, and attracts students of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities, offering excellent academic and recreational facilities. Academic departments, social and sports facilities, and accommodation are contained within a campus of extensive woodland, parks and playing fields three miles from Nottingham city centre. All first year students will be offered accommodation in a hall of residence; the university also has a self-catering apartment complex adjacent to the campus. A taught modular postgraduate MSc in pharmacy practice is offered. The school has an international reputation for research and has been awarded the highest rating in the research assessment exercise. All research postgraduates participate in generic and specific training programmes. Postgraduate studies leading to the degrees of MPhil and PhD are available in all subjects; many projects are multidisciplinary. Research studentships and fellowships are available.
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NOTTINGHAM The Pharmacy School, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 RD