Thursday, 10 July 2014

career options for pharmacy students

Career options after completing B Pharm or M Pharm posted by Mijjumaniyar@gmail.com.







1. Teaching - B Pharm - First Class students are eligible to teach as lecturers in

the D Pharm programme, where as M Pharm, First Class students can get a

lecturer’s job in pharmacy degree colleges. It takes about 5 years to reach the

grade of Sr. lecturer and about 10 years to become Assistant Professor and

about 12 years to become Professor or a Principal of a college. While in

teaching profession they can do research in pharmaceutical field and strive to

become a well-known Research Scientist.







2. Pharmacist – Being in the health-related field, the B Pharm graduate can be

Health-system Pharmacist or Hospital Pharmacist or Community Pharmacist.







3. Quality Assurance Health Manager – The Pharmacy graduate can play an

important role in the development of clinical care plans, can investigate

adverse medication events and in some cases can suggest preventive measures.

He can play a key role in spreading awareness amongst the people about AIDS

and the preventive measures to be taken.







4. Medical Transcription - The B Pharm graduate can work with medical

practitioners to maintain the patient treatment history, the drug to which

he/she is allergic etc.







5. Analytical Chemist of Quality Control Manager – The pharmacy graduate can

play a crucial role in controlling product quality. The drug and the Cosmetics

Act (1945), Rules 71(1) and 76(1) says that the manufacturing activity should be

taken up under the supervision of a technical man whose qualification should

be B Pharm, B Sc, B Tech or medicine with Bio-Chemistry.







6. Sales and Marketing – Ambitious achievers with pleasant personality and good

communication skills can opt for the job of Medical Sales Representative. The

companies prefer pharmacy graduates for this job, as they have a good

knowledge about the drug molecules, their therapeutic effects and the drug –

drug interactions.







7. Clinical Research - B Pharm/ M Pharm degree holders can take up career in

clinical research. The human testing phase is called the clinical trial. A

pharmacist can work as clinical research associate or clinical pharmacist and

can rise to the position of project manager. The clinical research associate

plays an important role of monitoring and overseeing the conducts of clinical

trials, which are conducted on healthy human volunteers. They have to see

that the trials meet the international guidelines and the national regulatory

requirements.







8. Data Manager - A pharmacist can seek employment as “Data Manager” to store

the data in the computer and process it using software developed for the

purpose.







9. Regulatory Manager - A pharmacy graduate can work as “Regulatory

Manager”(RM) in companies and contract research organisation. As an RM he

has to oversee regulatory documentation such as Clinical trial approval

permission, marketing approval permission etc.







10. Career in Regulatory bodies - A Pharmacist can be absorbed in the Regulatory

bodies like Food and Drug Administration. Pharmacist having experience in

clinical trial centres can also work as an inspector to inspect the clinical trial

process. For these government jobs the student needs to appear and pass the

MPSC examination.







11. Biotechnology is a fast growing branch and the B Pharm graduates can opt for

post graduate diploma programme in Bioinformatics.







12. They can handle the job of monitoring the conduct of clinical trials that are

conducted on human volunteers. It is their responsibility to see that the clinical

trials are carried out as per the international guidelines.







13. The B Pharm Science programme is considered as a paramedical programme.

The B Pharm Science graduates can therefore work in hospitals as hospital

pharmacist or community pharmacist.







14. Since they have a good knowledge of therapeutic effects of drugs and that of

drug-drug interaction, they are more suitable for a job in clinical research.

They can opt for the post of clinical pharmacist or clinical research associate in

a clinical research laboratory 🔬