This programme is no longer open for recruitment. From 2015/16 onwards students who entered the UCC Pharmacy programme registered for an integrated BPharm/MPharm degree (Master of Pharmacy) (NFQ Level 9).

Applicants who are under 23 years of age must satisfy the minimum entry requirements of the College of Medicine and Health as set out here.

Entry on the Grounds of Mature Years

Applicants who have not satisfied the minimum entry requirements may, on the recommendation of College, be considered for admission on the grounds of mature years (see under "Mature Students" in the Admission to Undergraduate Programmes section of the University Calendar).

Student Declaration

All students are required to sign a Student Declaration. This Declaration clearly outlines student rights and student responsibilities as registered students of the UCC School of Pharmacy. Copies of the Declaration are available from the Pharmacy School Office on request.

Fitness to Practise

Commencing with the 2013/2014 intake of first year students (including repeats), this programme will be subject to the University's Fitness to Practise Policy - full details may be found here.

Oral Examinations

Some modules of the BPharm degree have provision for Oral Examinations following Written Examinations. Students are reminded that they are expected to stay in Cork until the examination session is over, so that they are available for the examinations if required.

Attendance

Each student registered for the BPharm degree is expected to attend all timetable teaching activities. In the case of absences through illness, a student must give notice of each absence in writing and submit a medical certificate to the School Secretary within 48 hours of return.

A student will not be permitted to enter for an examination at the conclusion of a module if attendance at that module is not considered satisfactory by the Senior Vice-President Academic and Registrar following a report by the Head of School. The decision of the Senior Vice-President Academic and Registrar is subject to the appeal of the Academic Council of the University.

Two Year Rule

Students of Pharmacy must pass/progress within two academic years of first registration for each year of the programme. Students of Pharmacy are allowed to repeat any academic year once only and may not repeat any more than two academic years in any one programme.

REGULATIONS FOR THE BPharm (Hons) DEGREE

The programme is defined in terms of modules, which are measured in terms of credits. A module may correspond to 5, 10, 15 or 20 credits. One year of a degree programme consists of modules to a total value of 60 credits.

Students Repeating Third Year in 2017/18
A student who repeats the third year of the programme must pass and progress in the current prescribed programme. Where a student has been granted exemptions due to having passed module(s) in an earlier attempt year, an exemption in any particular module is relevant to the repeat year only where that module is included in the current prescribed programme. Students repeating third year in 2017/18 may be required to take new modules as prescribed by the School. In some instances, modules may potentially carry different credit weightings and content compared to an earlier attempt year.

Module Semester Information may be found here. Module Descriptions may be found here.
Examinations
Full details of regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards 2018 Book, and for each module in the Book of Modules, 2017/2018.

In order to be admitted to the Fourth University Examination in Pharmacy, each student must have attended modules to the value of 60 credits as follows:

PF4002 Clinical Practice II Part 1 (10 credits)
PF4003 Clinical Practice II Part 2 (10 credits)
PF4004 Pharmacy Project (10 credits)
PF4014 Central Nervous System (10 credits)
PF4015 Novel Drug Delivery (5 credits)
PF4020 Pharmaceutics of Biologics and Advanced Therapies (5 credits)
PF4021 Drug Design, Emerging Drugs and Mechanism of Action (10 credits)

Students Repeating Fourth Year in 2017/18
A student who repeats the fourth year of the programme must pass and progress in the current prescribed programme which may differ from the programme in an earlier attempt year. Where a student has been granted exemptions due to having passed module(s) in an earlier attempt year, an exemption in any particular module is relevant to the repeat year only where that module is included in the current prescribed programme. Students repeating fourth year in 2017/18 may be required to take new modules as prescribed by the School. In some instances, modules may potentially carry different credit weightings and content compared to an earlier attempt year.

Students repeating fourth year modules in the 2017/2018 academic year only will have these modules availables to them:

PF4002 Clinical Practice II Part 1 (10 credits)
PF4003 Clinical Practice II Part 2 (10 credits)
PF4004 Pharmacy Project (10 credits)

Students repeating the following modules will take replacement modules:

PF4001 Drug Design (5 credits) will take PF4021 Drug Design, Emerging Drugs and Mechanism of Action (10 credits)
PF4008 Novel Drug Delivery Systems (10 credits) will take PF4015 Novel Drug Delivery (5 credits) and PF4020 Pharmaceutics of Biologics and Advanced Therapies (5 credits)
PF4109 Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (10 credits) will take PF4015 Novel Drug Delivery (5 credits) and PF4020 Pharmaceutics of Biologics and Advanced Therapies (5 credits)
PT4447 Advanced Pharmacology and Veterinary Pharmacology (5 credits) will take PF4014 Central Nervous System (10 credits)

Note: For students who fail combinations of modules, repeat modules will be prescribed on a case by case basis.

Module Semester Information may be found here. Module Descriptions may be found here.

Examinations
Full details of regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be available in the Marks and Standards 2018 Book, and for each module in the Book of Modules, 2017/2018.

Programme Learning Outcomes for BPharm (Hons) Degree (NFQ Level 8, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• Define the role of the Pharmacist in hospital, community, industry, research environments and other positions where the pharmacist can be employed;
• Communicate effectively with patients and healthcare professionals for the purpose of counselling and advising on medicines and their safe usage;
• Interpret and evaluate prescriptions and supply medicines in accordance with current legislation and professional codes of practice;
• Apply the physiochemical properties of drugs to the design of small molecules and biopharmaceutical drug delivery systems and recognise the principles of pharmaceutical manufacturing encompassing good manufacturing practice (GMP), quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC) and regulatory affairs;
• Apply the principles of chemistry underpinning the design, development, manufacture, analysis and quality control of pharmaceutical compounds and excipients;
• Outline the physiological, biochemical, molecular and genetic basis of disease, drug therapy and drug delivery;
• Apply the pharmacodynamic, pharmacokinetics and pharmacological principles underlying the use of medicines in health care;
• Recognise common disease states and respond appropriately to presented symptoms;
• Conduct a literature review, design a research protocol, collect and interpret data and write a research report.