This document provides information about career opportunities for pharmacists and how to build a career. It discusses roles in various practice settings like community pharmacies, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry. It also mentions roles in government agencies, academia, and research. The document then provides tips for career development like obtaining additional education and skills through online courses from organizations like USP, WHO, and Uppsala Monitoring Centre. It emphasizes the importance of ongoing learning and lists social media and networking platforms like LinkedIn for connecting with others in the field.
2. Regulatory Affairs Manager – Boston Biopharma
B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Cairo University
M.Sc. in Biochemistry
17 Years experience in the pharmaceutical field
Expert in CTD, NeeS & eCTD compilation & submission of dossiers
Speaker of more than 45 workshops in Egypt & GCC for RA,
CTD/eCTD sessions and pharmaceutical field
Asmaa Khalil El-Kersh
4. Career opportunities for pharmacists
Pharmacist
Practice
Community pharmacy /
Community pharmacy /
wholesale “drug store”
Hospital
Clinical
Industry
Business
Development
Research &
Development
Supply chain
Warehouse
Production &
Engineering
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Pharmacovigilance
Governmental
agencies
Academic
& Research
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6. • Processing prescriptions:
checking the prescription from the doctor and preparing the medication for
the patient.
• Dispensing medications:
labeling the medication correctly with instructions for the patient about how
to take the medication.
• Providing advice:
helping patients to understand their health and medicines and giving
appropriate advice.
• Promotion of healthy lifestyle
• Supporting patients to make healthier choices
such as eating more nutritious food,
exercising more often or stopping smoking.
Community pharmacy
7. Hospital pharmacists work in hospitals and provide medications to
patients.
Job responsibilities include:
Preparing IV prescription medications
Providing information to medical staff
Ensuring the medication is safe for the patient
Filling out paperwork
Monitoring and ordering inventory
Hospital pharmacy
8. Job responsibilities include:
Evaluating for untreated health issues.
Performing medical tests on patients.
Ensuring patients receive the correct medications.
Advising patients about health-related matters.
Tracking the progress of patients.
Clinical pharmacy
9. Industry
Departments of the Manufacturing Site
Warehouse
Production & Engineering QA QC PhV
Medical Affairs Artwork/Labelling
RA Marketing
13. Education & Skills
Virtual meetings using Microsoft Teams program:
• The importance of work,
• Digital transformation,
• Career planning,
• AI “Artificial Intelligence”,
• Goal setting,
• Data analysis,
• Entrepreneurship
• Digital literacy,
• Windows, Microsoft Office
• And others.
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14. Knowledge Learning
💫 US Pharmacopeia :
GMP,
Quality
RA topics
https://www.usp.org/courses-search?aggregated_field=gmp
15. Knowledge Learning
💫 WHO:
Clinical management
Responding to COVID-19
Infection prevention and control
COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/training/online-
training
16. Knowledge Learning
💫 Uppsala Monitoring Centre:
Basic PV,
Signal detection and causality assessment,
And statistical reasoning.
https://who-umc.org/education-and-training/