B.Sc. Pharmacy Degree

The School aims, through the B.Sc. (Pharmacy) undergraduate programme, to produce pharmacy graduates who will enhance health care through their patient-oriented understanding of aspects of disease, health strategies, medicines and pharmacoeconomics of existing and new therapies.

The final year of the B.Sc. Degree Programme is 2017-18

The Pharmacy undergraduate syllabus leading to a B.Sc. (Pharm) degree is taught over four years and satisfies the requirements of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, i.e . the statutory registration body. It also complies with the training standards defined in three pharmaceutically relevant EU Directives –2005/36/EC as amended, 2001/82/EC as amended and 2001/83/EC as amended.

Directives 2005/36/EC specifies the educational requirements necessary for the mutual recognition of registered pharmacists within the European Economic Area (EEA) member states. Directives 2001/82/EC and 2001/83/EC specify the educational requirements necessary to perform the functions in the pharmaceutical industry of the ‘Qualified Person' i.e., one who is responsible for the supervision and control of the manufacture of pharmaceutical products for human and veterinary use.

While a Pharmacy degree is an essential requirement if you wish to practise as a community or hospital pharmacist, Pharmacy at Trinity provides graduates with a wide variety of professional opportunities in both industry and the healthcare sector.

The Pharmacy syllabus has been designed to provide students with an all-round education in both the basic and pharmaceutical sciences and in the practice of pharmacy itself.

The provision of a common Pharmacy syllabus allows individual graduates to choose for themselves the branch of pharmacy within which they wish to practise.

The pharmacy degree alone does not entitle you to practise as a pharmacist in community or hospital - graduates are required to undertake a one-year training period subsequent to the completion of their degree prior to registration with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. The “internship year” may be undertaken in a range of pharmaceutical settings but at least six months of this year must be spent in community or hospital practice.