The BSc Pharmacy isan integrated pharmacy degree programme created with the specific intention of developing graduateswho are medicine experts with the foundation knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours to become the next generation of international clinical and scientific leaders. The programme is designed to produce a pharmacist with the attributes of professionalism, collaboration, communication, advocacy, leadership and scholarship.

The programme is delivered over 4 academic years. The teaching and learning strategy is focused on developing workplace-ready graduates. The curriculum is delivered using a spiral approach, where students have the opportunity to re-engage with concepts in greater depth as the programme progresses. The curriculum will be delivered in a multi-modal fashion to ensure the students have the opportunity to learn in different ways: learning from experts, learning with others, learning through making, learning through inquiry, learning through exploring, learning through practising, learning through assessment, learning in and across settings.

Year 1of the programme focuses on the acquisition of fundamental scientific knowledge across the biological & physical sciences. Students also begin to develop their clinical skills and embark upon their professional formation as pharmacists, developing competency in areas including healthcare systems, communication and counselling skills, ethics, legal frameworks and critical reflection.

After Y1, this pharmacy programme uses a more integrated approach for curriculum delivery.Integrated health professions curricula aim to produce graduates capable of meeting current and future healthcare needs.The material in systems-based themes is centred around a body system (for example, the cardiovascular system), including basic life science, chemistry, therapeutics and practice associated with the system.The integrated pharmacy programme employs a spiral integrated approach where topics are introduced at a basic level and revisited throughout the programme with increasing depth. An example of this is the teaching of cardiovascular health. Early in the programme, students learn about cardiovascular health in a systems-based module. The topic is revisited in modules in Year 3 where cardiovascular disease features as a co-morbidity in kidney disease (Liver and Kidney module) and diabetes (Endocrine module) and is a feature of the Stages of Life module, where heart failure and stroke are integrated into the stages in case-based work with Infective endocarditis. The main integrative curricular teaching and learning approach is case-based teaching. This synergises with the other approaches used, namely interprofessional learning and experiential learning.Students undertake an experiential learning placement in hospitals or industry for semester 1 of year 3.At the end, students will complete a cap-stone 12-week immersive research project in a research laboratory.