BSc (Hons) Clinical Pharmacology

at St Georges University Of London

Your knowledge and skills in these topics will develop progressively through the course.

• Fundamentals of science: Understanding how the body works and what goes wrong in disease.
• Pharmacokinetics: How the body handles drugs.
• Pharmacodynamics: How drugs exert their effects on the body.
• Drug development and clinical trials: How drugs are discovered and developed as medicines.
• Drugs in healthcare: How information from clinical trials and drug development is used to guide the use of medicines for patients in clinical practice.
• Data and statistics: How to collect, manage, analyse, present and interpret research data relating to drugs.
• Skills portfolio: Developing clinical trials, laboratory, presentation and personal skills required to be successful in a work environment and demonstrate this to employers.

• Higher Secondary Certificate/Standard XII (any board, state or central): 70% including Biology and Chemistry.

International Students:
£ 21,250 / year

Potential careers:
 

• Academia (teaching or research)
• Bioanalytical company
• Biomedical company
• Biotechnical company
• Clinical trials unit – industry or healthcare
• Contract research organisation
• Large pharmaceutical company
• Publications house
• Regulatory affairs