CAREERS IN PHARMACY FIELD

CLINICAL PHARMACY

Clinical pharmacy is the branch of Pharmacy where pharmacists and pharmaconomists provide patient care that optimizes the use of medication and promotes health, wellness and disease prevention. Clinical pharmacists and clinical pharmaconomists care for patients in all health care settings but the clinical pharmacy movement initially began inside hospitals and clinics. Clinical pharmacists/pharmaconomists often collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals.

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INDUSTRIAL PHARMACY

The work in the pharmaceutical industry entails activities such as the development, production or marketing of new drugs. These drugs are primarily for clinical use. One could also find a good job as a medical representative for sale promotion work. The duty of a medical representative is to keep the medical practitioner or doctor informed about the new drugs developed by various pharmaceutical companies. This is the indirect way to promote sales of those drugs as the doctor prescribes those drugs to the patients.

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ENFORCEMENT PHARMACY

To ensure the import, manufacture, sale, supply, management, and use of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and health-care products are conducted in accordance to existing national legislation.

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ACADEMICIAN

Whether it's teaching, researching, practising or a mix of all three, academic pharmacists enjoy exciting careers in universities and research institutes.

Teacher practitioners spend on average around 60% of their time working in hospital, community or industrial pharmacy and the other 40% of the time as a pharmacy teacher or lecturer.

Alternatively you might like the idea of researching a whole wealth of topics from drug design through to the provision of pharmacy services. As a research pharmacist you will enjoy a rewarding and satisfying career, knowing your work is helping improve countless lives.

Put simply, academic pharmacists are involved in a huge variety of exciting roles, often working on their own initiative.

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COMMUNITY PHARMACY

Community pharmacies usually consist of a retail storefront with a dispensary where medications are stored and dispensed. The dispensary is subject to pharmacy legislation; with requirements for storage conditions, compulsory texts, equipment, etc., specified in legislation. Where it was once the case that pharmacists stayed within the dispensary compounding/dispensing medications; there has been an increasing trend towards the use of trained pharmacy technicians while the pharmacist spends more time communicating with patients.                                                                                                               For more information, click here

VETERINARY PHARMACY                                                                                                                                                                                                                As a pharmacist you can make a valuable contribution to the welfare of animals by supplying a professional service to pet owners. Since autumn 2005 much more emphasis has been placed by the government on involving pharmacy in the supply of animal medicines and the dispensing of veterinary prescriptions. 

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