Course Description
This Master’s course provides the training and development necessary to meet demand for highly skilled scientists within the expanding and global bioscience sector. It can lead to a wide range of careers including academic, commercial, industrial and healthcare applications of pharmacology.
The course has been designed to respond to the increasing demand for suitably trained professional pharmacologists, essential to speed up the critical task of translating basic laboratory medical research into commercially-ready medical biotechnology and drugs that can be used to diagnose and treat patients. As well as relevant biotechnical innovations associated with pharmacology and drug discovery, classical clinical trial design and health-outcomes research, the course also encompasses an emerging area of science that is known as ‘Translational Medicine’.
Translational medicine requires a new breed of pharmacologist who can apply basic science knowledge and skills to experimental study design, management and data analysis, and who understands the legislation and other regulatory procedures surrounding disease treatment. Our course is designed to provide such specialists by applying basic and clinical science to topics including diagnosis, understanding and treatment of disease, supported by our excellent staff, research expertise and laboratory facilities.
Course Content
- Year one
Overview
This course includes the Professional Development module. Each of the participating postgraduate courses have an individually tailored version of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Professional Development module.
Modules
- Postgraduate Diploma
- Research Techniques in Pharmacology
- Principles of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery
- Current Topics in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery
- Drug Discovery : from bench to bedside
- Critical Review in Pharmacology
- Pharmacology Scientific Presentation
- Global Professional Development - Entrepreneurship
- Research Principles and Preparation (MSc Pharmacology and Drug Discovery only)
- Master’s degree
- Research Project (MSc Pharmacology and Drug Discovery only)
- Master’s degree with Professional Experience
- Professional Experience Preparation (MSc Pharmacology and Drug Discovery with Professional Experience only)
- Professional Experience in Life Science 1 and 2 (MSc Pharmacology and Drug Discovery with Professional Experience only)
- Life Sciences Professional Experience Project and Reflection (MSc Pharmacology and Drug Discovery with Professional Experience only)
Entry Requirements
An Honours degree in a life sciences, pharmacology or clinical sciences undergraduate course; with a minimum of a lower second class (2.ii) classification (2.i for the professional experience course).
We would normally be looking for study of the following subjects in the final year of an undergraduate degree programme: physiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology or pharmacology.
Additional Information
Study options:
1 year full-time
18-20 months (with professional experience)
2 years part-time (UK/EU only)
How to Apply
Full time
Part time
Location:
Coventry University
Starting:
September 2020
January 2021
Fees:
£9,200
£13,700 (with professional experience)
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