Course Description
This M.Sc. course is administered by the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, in the Trinity Centre of Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin. It has been developed to provide medical and science graduates with specialist knowledge and skills in the area of clinical pharmacology and pharmaceutical medicine. In-take is on an annual basis. Components of the course include principles of:
•Pharmacology and biostatistics
•New drug development and the regulatory environment
•Pharmacoeconomics and rational use of drugs
•Pharmacovigilance and drug information
The course involves completion of taught modules and the additional undertaking of a research project. The modules consist of formal teaching and personal assignments and are run over five terms on a part-time basis (approximately two modules per term). Some of the modules are undertaken by way of distance learning. In addition, the students are assigned a research project (including field work), to be submitted as a dissertation for the degree of M.Sc. only.
The syllabus is compliant with PharmaTrain, an EU funded Innovative Medicines Initiative (www.pharmatrain.eu).