Pharmacists are experts in medicine and responsible for the safe and effective supply of medicines to patients and the public. and for giving advice on how to take prescribed drugs, including monitoring requirements or potential side effects. They also play an important clinical role in the care of patients, including prescribing medicines. As prescribers, pharmacists are required to use diagnostic skills alongside their clinical expertise to deliver high quality, person-centred care.
Pharmacists have an important role to play as part of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team, liaising closely with other healthcare professionals to ensure the safe and effective care of patients. Working in a variety of healthcare settings, pharmacists need to demonstrate excellent consultation and communication skills every day to ensure patients use their medicines safely.
Through continued interprofessional collaboration between staff and students from a variety of professions, the utilisation of innovative learning technologies and extensive, diverse patient-focused placements, the programme will prepare students to apply their expertise in medicines and to work in multiple roles to support the safe and effective use of medicines.
With over 100 years of experience, the Leicester School of Pharmacy will help provide you with the practical and professional skills needed to work as a pharmacist. With pharmacy being the third largest healthcare profession, and an integral part of health provision in the UK, your career opportunities are extensive and varied.
Key features
- Integrated, experiential placements across all four years of the course in the community, GP and hospital setting, providing the opportunity to demonstrate core consultation and prescribing skills under supervision.
- Learn in our dedicated teaching spaces including our new purpose-built practice and simulation suites as well as our industry standard laboratories.
- Collaborative learning with other future health and social care students and practitioners through our established Inter-Professional Education (IPE) programme.
- Learning alongside experts in research, allowing students to see how our award-winning, real-world research projects such as work to support uniform washing for healthcare professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic and dried blood-spot analysis make a difference to patient care.
- Our students have gained international experience related to their studies through our DMU Global programme. Pharmacy students have visited Dubai and New York to understand the healthcare provision provided by pharmacists outside of the UK and learned about the medicinal uses of hemp and cannabis on a trip to Amsterdam.
- Our graduates gain rewarding and stimulating careers in all pharmacy sectors – DMU students have gone on to work for major employers in primary and secondary care settings, and primary care networks, as well as roles within global pharmaceutical companies.