Current students discuss the benefits of the full time programme at the University of Birmingham.
Duration: 03.10 mins
Speakers
S1 Samuel Musi, Current Student
S2 Arnold Busmic, Current Student
Transcript
S1 Hi, my name is Samuel Musi, I’m a student on the Masters of Pharmaceutical Enterprise course at the University of Birmingham. I am a pharmacist and I’ve been practising as a pharmacist for the past five years in the Manchester area. One of the main reasons I chose to come to the University of Birmingham was the fact that the University of Birmingham was the only institution offering the Masters in Pharmaceutical Enterprise course and I also did a bit of research on Professor Barnes who is the course administrator, the course Director, and I was quite impressed by his pedigree and his past experience.
S2 Before I started this course I was a student in Leeds so I thought OK, I want to be still in science but I want to do something with business and then I found this course and I thought it’s perfect.
S1 The course has been structured in such a way to allow me to have the perfect mix between my current professional status and the fact that I’m a student at the same time, so I think it was initially challenging but the course is very well structured and I’ve been able to keep up to standards. Being a pharmacist I thought I knew what the pharmaceutical industry was but I’ve been made to realise, or to understand, that there are many aspects of this industry that I wasn’t aware of. For example, the CROs which is a very part of the pharmaceutical industry which I knew nothing about before I joined the course. I mean that’s just one example or one career path I might choose to follow.
S2 I honestly believe that it gives me the prospects of going and opening my own company, like a business or a pharmaceutical, just because of all the externals and all the support from the university, it’s just huge.
S1 I’m very pleased that the course has been run from the Medical School building, which is a plus and also we’ve got the University of Birmingham train station just across the road from the building, which is ideal for me because I have to commute all the way from Manchester and I make it here on a daily basis so it's very well set up, the fact that there is a train station just right next door to the campus.
S2 I do enjoy the big main library because it has really good facilities for resources and also it has quite a big PC cluster where you have big monitors with like just big screens and you can have touch screens as well, so it’s just nice and good and just cool!
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