PHARM D CHOOSE THE RIGHT CAREER PATH FOR YOURSELF

Wondering what you should do after graduating Pharm D? You are not alone. This article will guide you about different skills to learn in advance to help you get your career and make you standout, the most possible career paths in pharmacy and in the last the most important that what to study for a specific field in advance so it can be easy for you choosing a career, so stay connected and read thoroughly to get a full view of what it means to be and how to become a legally qualified and a competent pharmacist.

Additional Skills required for a Pharmacist

Lets talk about the skills that will make you standout in a crowd and that will help you in your future career paths being a pharmacist. Learning these skills in advance will dramatically increase your productivity within an organization and will reduce the burden of learning these skills after graduating, when you will have to work for the organization.

Computer skills

MS word: as it is used by many organizations, it is necessary to learn, at least how to use it.

MS PowerPoint: it seems very much like; what is the point of learning PowerPoint while working in an organization!? But believe me, depending on organization you will be given tasks to make presentations on different topics. And not knowing how to prepare presentation slides will make your organization dissapointed

MS Excel: It is necessary to learn MS excel as you will have to go through many types of data, calculations and charts that are either patients related, drug procurement related or research data of patients or drugs.

Writing skills

Learn how to write to different positions in an organization, learn how to use persuading words.

Communication Skills

This is the most important skill to learn working in an organization. Learn how to communicate properly with your colleagues and other members of your organization

Regular study habit

Make a habit of regular study this will make ensure that you can stick with your work routine for longer times and you will be able to cope any mistake or problem that occur in the organization very easily and very fast from your colleagues.

Career Paths in the field of Pharmacy

There are tons of career paths in the field of pharmacy, so you will not be left alone after your graduated. But the main point is what you should do and how you should choose which path do you want.

Solving this question if you are still a student or want to enter in the field of pharmacy this article is ideal for you. Or even if you are graduated you can still take guidance from this article and choose the right career path for yourself.

Following are most of the possible ways you can choose for yourself

There are Two main types of careers you can choose in the field of Pharmacy that are either to become employer (do business) or become an employee (work in an organization)

Business paths in Pharmacy

You can choose different business paths in pharmacy that are

• Opening and registering pharmacy educational institute

• Opening a Community pharmacy

• Opening a retail medical store

• Opening pharmacy chain

• Registering as a broker with different industries to procure drugs to many community and hospitals

• Opening and registering a hospital

• Opening and registering a Pharmaceutical Industry

Jobs in Pharmacy

Government Jobs

• In Educational institutes as a pharmacy teacher/ Lecturer/ Professor and researcher

• In Government Hospitals

◦ As Hospital and/ or Clinical pharmacist

◦ as pharmaceutical administration body

• In Governmental Regulatory organizations

◦ Regulatory writer

◦ Forensics

◦ Drug Laboratory testing

Private Sector

• In private educational institutes as a pharmacy teacher/ Lecturer/ Professor and researcher

• Being an employee in Community pharmacy

◦ providing professional services to patients

◦ As a counseling pharmacist

◦ Drug review and intervention pharmacist

• In private sector Hospitals as hospital and/ or Clinical pharmacist

• In pharmaceutical Industry

◦ As Quality assurance

◦ As Quality control

◦ As Production

◦ As Sales and Marketing

◦ As Regulatory Affairs

◦ All these can be of different positions, e.g; QC officer, QC manager, or QC specialist etc.

• In foods and drinks Industry

◦ As food specialist

◦ As Nutritionist

Now lets talk about what to study for a specific field in pharmacy, you can choose a career path on interest based on career position or the subjects that interest you.

It is important that you know at least the basics of all subjects included in the Pharm D curriculum. There are subjects in pharm D curriculum that are suitable for specific fields and you should master them more from others.

Mastering these subjects will only help you in a specific field and are not the standard to follow, that’s why it is advisable to know most from all the subjects.

Mastering subjects related to field will make you competent in the desired field.

1. Being Clinical Pharmacist

• Basics of Pharmaceutical Mathematics and Bio-statistics

• Anatomy

• Physiology

• Microbiology and Immunology

• Pathology

• Pharmacology and Therapeutics

• Clinical Pharmacy

• Biochemistry

• There are many books out of your curriculum which can help you get clinical knowledge and how to communicate with your patients and physician while on round with the Physician.

2. Being Industrial Pharmacist

• Basics of Pharmaceutical Mathematics and Bio-statistics

• Pharmaceutics

◦ Physical Pharmacy

◦ Dosage forms and Science

◦ Industrial pharmacy

◦ Biopharmaceutics (Mostly research based)

◦ Pharmaceutical Quality Management

◦ Pharmaceutical Technology

• Pharmaceutical Analysis

• Medicinal Chemistry

• Pharmaceutical Management and Marketing

• Out of curriculum books for sales and marketing (there are tons of good books available in the market, you should regularly read different books to keep your self updated with the market trends)

• There are also many books on pharmaceutical production, which will help you get the idea of how production works in pharmaceutical industry

3. Being Community Pharmacist

• Basics of Computer operation

• Pathology

• Pharmacology and Therapeutics

• Dispensing, Community, Social & Administrative Pharmacy

• Pharmaceutical Management and Marketing

4. Being in Forensics

• Forensic Pharmacy

• As government jobs are mostly test based you will have to study other subjects according to the requirement of test

We highly hope you will have gotten the idea of how you will place yourself and what you will choose in different fields of pharmacy. If there is any question or doubt feel free to comment below and we will try to assess you as soon as possible.

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