B.Sc. (Pharm.) Degree
Curriculum overview
The aim of the B.Sc. (Pharmacy) course is to provide students with a basic education in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Practice of Pharmacy in all its forms. To quote from the Accreditation Document of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland "the purpose of undergraduate pharmacy education (the pharmacy degree course), is to produce pharmacy graduates who are able to communicate and apply in their chosen field of practice; the elements of pharmaceutical knowledge and care and whose relevant skills are based upon and underpinned by appropriate and sufficient understanding of the principles and techniques of the pharmaceutical sciences".
In order to achieve the aims of the course, the syllabus has been designed to provide students with learning opportunities in some of the basic sciences, the Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Practice of Pharmacy.
Modules covered in the four years of the course are listed below:
| Junior Freshman Year |
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| Physiology |
| Cell & Molecular Biology |
| Biochemistry |
| Sources & characteristics of substances used in medicines |
| Physical Pharmacy I |
| Discovery, isolation, separation & analysis of substances used in medicines |
| Introduction to pharmaceutics & formulations |
| Mathematical methods & pharmaceutical calculations |
| Practice of Pharmacy I |
| Orientation & learning skills & integrated pharmacy studies |
| Senior Freshman Year |
| Pharmaceutical properties of materials used in medicines |
| Physical pharmacy II |
| Isolation, separation & analysis of substances used in medicines |
| Formulation & pharmaceutical technology |
| Microbiology & Biochemistry |
| Practice of Pharmacy II |
| Professional development & career planning |
| Pharmaceutical biotechnology I |
| General principles of pharmacology |
| Molecular pharmacology & chemotherapy |
| Junior Sophister Year |
| Medicinal & pharmaceutical chemistry III |
| Natural sources of drugs & medicines |
| Sterile products |
| Pharmaceutical data analysis & bioinformatics |
| Practice of pharmacy III |
| Pharmaceutical biotechnology II |
| Endocrine & reproductive pharmacology & veterinary pharmacy |
| Respiratory & gastrointestinal pharmacology |
| Blood, cardiovascular & renal pharmacology |
| Senior Sophister Year |
| Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry IV |
| Ectoparasiticides, natural remedies & complementary medicine |
| Advanced drug delivery |
| Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, biopharmaceutics & drug metabolism |
| Practice of pharmacy IV1 |
| Practice of pharmacy IV2 (including Electives) |
| Addiction pharmacy |
| Neuropharmacology |
| Malignant disease, immunopharmacology & pharmacology of the eye |
| Research Project |