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Pharmaceutical Medicine

Postgraduate Pharmaceutical Medicine at King's

King’s offers three MSc programmes in Pharmaceutical Medicine. Pharmaceutical Medicine is the scientific discipline for the discovery, development, evaluation, registration, monitoring and medical marketing of medicines for the benefit of patients and the public.

In every MSc you will learn the clinical development process, from early-phase studies to post-marketing activities and also the regulation of medicines and pharmacovigilance. Then, depending on the MSc you choose, you will specialise in either the pharmacological issues of the development of medicines, the science of the development of medicines or medical affairs.

You will also undertake a research project that will give you the academic mastery of a subject of cutting-edge importance in your chosen sector of pharmaceutical medicine.

Students from the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science walking in corridor

 

Our Pharmaceutical Medicine Courses

Example Career Destinations

Taking a Pharmaceutical Medicine MSc can set you up for a wide range of careers, including:

 

 Clinical Pharmacologist

Involved in the design and management of the early clinical studies. Evaluates what the body does to the drug = pharmacokinetics, and what the drug does to the body = pharmacodynamics.

Clinical Investigator

The medical doctor with local accountability for the conduct of a clinical trial, including being responsible for the care of the patients or healthy volunteers that participate.

Clinical Research Associate

Involved in the design and management of clinical trials.They liaise with hospital staff to ensure the timely capture of high quality data according to Good Clinical Practice standards.

Medical Writer

May be responsible for drafting a range of internal company documents, clinical trial reports, scientific publications, medical education and ppromotional material.

Regulatory Affairs Specialist

Involved in the ensuring that the organisation meets all of the applicable regulations.This includes completing and filing paperwork with the appropriate local, national and international agencies.

 Health Economist

Involved in designing and implementing health economic and payer evidence strategies to produce evidence for payers to achieve market access.

Medical Science Liaison

Educates clinicians about specific medicines and answers their scientific questions. Acts as a bridge between data and the healthcare environment.

 

Short Courses

King's offers a wide-range of Continuing Professional Development Courses (CPD).
Discover more about our short courses below:

  • Advanced Clinical Pharmacology
    Learn about practical and ethical issues associated with non-patient volunteer studies, the design of such studies and interpretation of the results.
  • Ethics and Good Practice for Medicine
    This module provides training over five days on the concepts of ethics, good practice and risk/benefit in the development and marketing of medicines. It introduces the principles of ethics before focusing on ethical practice and the regulation of these practices.
  • GMDP Academy - Kings College London Medical Affairs in Medicines Development Programme
    Offered by King’s College London and the GMDP Academy (Global Medicines Development Professionals), this online CPD programme is designed for biomedical professionals working in medical affairs related functions and other areas of the medicines development arena within the biopharmaceutical industries and clinical research organisations.
  • ICH Q6A: How to write a successful specification for new chemical drug substance and products
    This 1-day course will be the second International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) Recognised Training Programme delivered by King’s College London to cover guidelines on pharmaceutical manufacturing standards produced by the ICH, which are applied by a growing number of regulatory authorities around the world.
  • ICH Q8 Pharmaceutical Development Guideline: From regulatory principles to practical experience
    This 1-day course will be the first International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) Recognised Training Programme delivered by King’s College London to cover guidelines on pharmaceutical manufacturing standards produced by the ICH, which are applied by a growing number of regulatory authorities around the World.
  • Medicines and the Healthcare Market
    This module provides advanced training over five days in the principles of how to develop effective medicines through integration of medicines development into the context of the current and future healthcare market. It introduces the topic of clinical development of a product and explains how a medicine can achieve its full potential through acceptance by patients, healthcare professionals, policy makers and regulators, and market positioning.
  • Principles and Practice of Medication Adherence Support
    This CPD course addresses a fundamental issue which cuts across healthcare: how to support patients to use treatment most effectively.
    The course comprises a short-online module, self-directed reflective practice and a half-day in person training session (available dates listed above). It provides a practical evidence-based foundation for clinicians wishing to understand, identify and address nonadherence to medications.
  • Strategic Medical Affairs
    This module provides, over five days, training on the skills and knowledge required to function in one of the strategic roles held by practitioners working in Medical Affairs teams of pharmaceutical companies. The module will provide an overview of the roles of medical affairs professionals, their approaches in developing and actioning strategic projects that facilitate the development, commercialisation, life-cycle management and use of new medicines.
  • The Regulation of Medicines
    This module introduces the core concepts of regulatory science, notably the scientific-technical basis for creating-amending regulations; the interplay of science and public policy e.g. for protecting the public and the influence of regulations on the development and lifecycle of medicines.

 

GMDP Academy Online Short Course

Offered by King’s College London and the GMDP Academy (Global Medicines Development Professionals), this online CPD programme is designed for biomedical professionals working in medical affairs related functions and other areas of the medicines development arena within the biopharmaceutical industries and clinical research organisations.

It consists of six modules to be offered asynchronously online, synchronous webinars and group projects, aiming to create a well-rounded, competent Medical Affairs workforce. A CPD certificate is granted to those students completing the six modules and final assessment.

Applications open in the autumn of each year and the programme runs from January-December.

We also offer the option to take one or two modules from our MSc courses, as part of your continued professional development. The modules are self-contained units taught over four or five days, and assessed independently. 

GMDP Medical Affairs

GMDP Medical Affairs

Offered by King's College London and the GMDP Academy (Global Medicines Development Professionals),…