Brief idea regarding pharmacy careers and education

2. What you know about Pharmacy Profession?
BY SEFEERA
(M.PHARM)

3. What is a Pharmacy?
• Pharmacy is a art of science dealing with practice, or
profession of preparing, Preserving, compounding
and dispensing of medical drugs.
or
• A place where medicines are compounded or
dispensed.

4. HISTORY AND DERIVATION OF WORD
“PHARMACY”
• Pharmacia – Latin term – Administration of
drugs.
• Pharmakeia - From pharmakeuein – Greek
term - to administer drugs.
• Pharmakon - Magic charm, poison, drug.

5. Who is a Pharmacist?
• A Person who licensed to prepare, compound, and
dispense medicaments upon written order or
Prescription from a licensed practitioner such as a
physician, dentist, or advanced nurses.
• A pharmacist is a health care professional who
cooperates with, consults with, and sometimes
advises the licensed practitioner concerning about
drugs.

6. Careers in Pharmacy
• Pharmacist-/Clinical/retail/whole sale/industrial.
• Wholesale Chemist/retail/Drug store
• Pharmacoepidemiologist /data analyst (latest emerging field)
• Drug Therapist
• Drug Inspector, Drug Analyst.
• Lecturing or Academicians.
• Researcher.
• Pathological Lab.
• R&D (Basic and Applied)
• Bio-tech Industries
• Sales and Marketing
• Hospital management
• Pharmaceutical Industry (Production/ QA-QC/ Documentation)
• Clinical Research Organizations
• Regulatory affairs field - Member of regulatory organizations like FDA, WHO
etc

7. Career prospects in Pharmacy profession based on qualification:
1. Diploma in Pharmacy ( D. Pharm. )
• Retailer (Medicine Shop)
• Dispensing Pharmacist
• Graduation (B. Pharma)
• Marketing (Medical Representative)

8. 2.Bachelor in Pharmacy( B. Pharm.)
• Post graduation Studies (M.Pharm / M.B.A/ M.Tec)
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Regulatory Affairs
• Insurance Sectors
• Marketing (Medical Representative)
• Drug Inspectors
• Researcher
• Various certificate courses in Management, Industrial
applications
• Can establish own Pharmaceutical Company.
• Can become a member of Pharmacy Council of India.

9. 3. Post-graduation ( M. Pharm. )
Major branches –
• Pharmaceutics,
• Pharmacology,
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
• Pharmacognosy,
• Quality Assurance,
• Industrial Pharmacy,
• Pharma Management
• Clinical Pharmacy
• microbiology

10. • Careers
• Academic
• R & D scientist (Basic / Applied research)
• CRO's (Clinical research organization)
• Production
• Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO)
• Researcher

11. 4. Ph. D ( In Pharmacy branches )
• Academics (Pharmacy colleges/University)
• Research & Development
• Post-doctorate.
5. Pharm D (Doctor of Pharmacy)
• Academics (Pharmacy colleges/University)
• Clinical pharmacist
• Research & Development
• Pharmaco-epidemiologist
• Pharmacists.
• Drug inspector / analyst.

12. REFERENCES
• Review article- Career opportunities in pharmacy profession: An informative
note - Year : 2010 | Volume : 1 | Issue : 2 | Page : 7-1
• www.google.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pharmacist