QUOTE(youngkies @ May 10 2008, 09:33 PM)
Nope. Nope never too much. Though the amount of people graduate and qualify as pharmacist is quite high every year, but the number of people leaving the job is high too.
Basically the career divided into 3 categories:
1. community pharmacy (so called retail pharmacy in Msia)
2. hospital pharmacy
3. industrial pharmaceutical.
1. Community / retail pharmacy in UK is where the pharmacist dispense medication to the patient presenting with a prescription from a doctor. Besides, the pharmacy might also offer various services such as diabetes testing, blood pressure testing, smoking cessation, health promotion and plenty more. They also make supply to doctor practices or health care centre. As for Msia, they do dispense drug but because usually the doctor clinic is allow to do that, hence pharmacy is under utilised. But mostly they make huge money by supplying drugs to the clinic.
2. Pharmacist in hospital do ward round, medicines management, writing guideline and protocols, plenty to study, pharmacist led clinic (e.g. warfarin, diabetes) and plenty more including dispensing, though most hospitals in UK have robot dispenser.
3. Industrial, yes basically they are manufacturing medicines. But as a pharmacist, you can do as Quality control or assurance officer, manufacturing officer, R&D, specialise in some equipment, even project manager such as developing a new factory in india, or representative of the company making deal with supplier, dealer, pharmacy, or government body or cleaner.
I read that if someone couldn't achieve a satisfactory in the 4th year, they can opt for BPharmSci instead.
Frankly, 4th year was not hard at all. I enjoyed it very much, because we have so much group projects and presentations, they were fun. But it was quite a lot of writing as well, critical writing of some drugs, etc, writing for journal/news/mag column in the first 4 months followed by some exams. For my Uni, if you have passed the exams in first semester (Jan) and pass all the assessments, basically you just have to do the project, submit meanwhile waiting for graduation in July.
There are actually 5 if you look into it. You've missed out clinical pharmacist and educational pharmacist.Basically the career divided into 3 categories:
1. community pharmacy (so called retail pharmacy in Msia)
2. hospital pharmacy
3. industrial pharmaceutical.
1. Community / retail pharmacy in UK is where the pharmacist dispense medication to the patient presenting with a prescription from a doctor. Besides, the pharmacy might also offer various services such as diabetes testing, blood pressure testing, smoking cessation, health promotion and plenty more. They also make supply to doctor practices or health care centre. As for Msia, they do dispense drug but because usually the doctor clinic is allow to do that, hence pharmacy is under utilised. But mostly they make huge money by supplying drugs to the clinic.
2. Pharmacist in hospital do ward round, medicines management, writing guideline and protocols, plenty to study, pharmacist led clinic (e.g. warfarin, diabetes) and plenty more including dispensing, though most hospitals in UK have robot dispenser.
3. Industrial, yes basically they are manufacturing medicines. But as a pharmacist, you can do as Quality control or assurance officer, manufacturing officer, R&D, specialise in some equipment, even project manager such as developing a new factory in india, or representative of the company making deal with supplier, dealer, pharmacy, or government body or cleaner.
I read that if someone couldn't achieve a satisfactory in the 4th year, they can opt for BPharmSci instead.
Frankly, 4th year was not hard at all. I enjoyed it very much, because we have so much group projects and presentations, they were fun. But it was quite a lot of writing as well, critical writing of some drugs, etc, writing for journal/news/mag column in the first 4 months followed by some exams. For my Uni, if you have passed the exams in first semester (Jan) and pass all the assessments, basically you just have to do the project, submit meanwhile waiting for graduation in July.
QUOTE(onelove89 @ May 11 2008, 08:44 AM)
I heard something bout WHO saying the ratio of a pharmacist to something is very low. >< forgot what isit bout but the main point is that there are too little pharmacists in the world.
Pharmacists are now heavily being produced because Malaysia is still low in pharmacist. They will separate the dispensing from doctor later. Job prospect will be widen.Also, if everything allow you, you can do Ph.D in Pharmacy in US & another country which I think is Egypt. Ph.D in pharmacy is higher level than MO (medical officer, normal doctor)
Added on May 11, 2008, 9:17 amForgot to say, you can go into Ph.D Pharmacy program using B.Pharm. The duration of the course is 5 years.
This post has been edited by jiaxun: May 11 2008, 09:17 AM
May 11 2008, 08:58 AM

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