1. The Many Careers of Pharmacy
By: Pre-Pharmacy Club Exec Board

2. Careers in Pharmacy:
Clinical Pharmacist

3. What is a Clinical Pharmacist?
Work directly with physicians, other health professionals, and patients to ensure that the medications prescribed contribute to the best possible health outcomes
Educated and trained in direct patient care environments, including medical centers, clinics, and a variety of other health care settings
Perform a full range of medication decision-making functions as part of the patient’s health care team.
Specialized knowledge and clinical experience is usually gained through residency and specialist board certification.

4. Where do you find a Clinical Pharmacist?
Hospitals and their affiliated outpatient clinics
Emergency departments
Community pharmacies
Physicians’ offices
Community-based clinics
Nursing homes
Managed care organizations

5. How to Become a Clinical Pharmacist?
Pharmacy School
Pharm D
1-2 year residency highly recommended
State Licensure

6. Industrial Pharmacist
Careers in Pharmacy:
Industrial Pharmacist

7. Industrial Pharmacy
Area of the pharmaceutical field that is specialized in creating new and groundbreaking drugs and medications
They are also responsible for determining if medications developed by pharmaceutical companies have both the right ingredients and the correct amount of these ingredients.
It’s a field in which pharmacists can make a real difference in the lives of people who use medications to treat a variety of illnesses and conditions.

8. Skills and Characteristics
The ability to think logically and practically
Being able to demonstrate initiative and a problem solving approach to everyday work
A degree of adaptability to change and adopting new strategies and ways of working
Communication skills
A persistent and meticulous nature towards always attaining high standards and quality

9. Educational Requirements
Industrial Pharmacists must have:
a Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm D degree) from an accredited college or university
A pharmacist’s license

10. Responsibilities and Duties
Industrial pharmacists:
research drug compounds and develop new medications based on research.
Test medications for efficiency and safety
Oversee the production process to ensure medications are produced accurately
Engage in marketing and promoting new drugs to consumers, hospitals and doctors' offices.
conduct clinical drug trials and evaluate the results of these trials to gauge a drug’s effectiveness and to determine potential risks or side effects.

11. Career Outlook and Salary
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average median wage for pharmacists was $111,000 per year.
The BLS predicts job growth to increase by 25 percent between 2010 and This is due in large part to the growing number of Baby Boomers who will reach retirement age in the next decade. As this generation grows older, the resulting increase in medical conditions and the need for pharmaceutical treatment will rise.

12. Where can you work? During early stages of drug development
pharmacists work in research and formulation development where they will spend time designing and investigating various potential dosage forms for a particular drug substance.
They may also be involved in the development of analytical and microbiological methodologies essential for the testing and validation of a particular product
Once formulation has been developed and approved
a prospective drug will then progress to being manufactured on a larger scale, often to conduct phase I or II clinical trials
Eventually a drug may then be manufactured for commercial release.
Pharmacists are employed both within the manufacturing and production areas, as well as in quality assurance.
After having extensive experience
A pharmacist becomes eligible for performing the role of a Qualified Person (QP) who, is defined as the quality assurance professional for medicines

13. Informatics Pharmacist
Careers in Pharmacy:
Informatics Pharmacist

14. What is Pharmacy Informatics?
A relatively new sub-field within pharmacy
An interface of health care, computer science, and bioinformatics
Informatics pharmacists work with data and information Help improve patient care

15. What Do Informatics Pharmacists Do?
Have a wide array of responsibilities:
Maintain medical databases and health records
Improve & streamline communication among health professionals
Monitor and analyze medical treatments (especially involving drugs)
Teamwork in a multi-disciplinary teams

16. How Do I Become an Informatics Pharmacist?
Post-graduate education (Johns Hopkins has one)
Bachelor’s degree or aptitude in bioinformatics or related field
Must still have extensive clinical and scientific knowledge!

17. Career Possibilities with Pharmacy
Academia
Informatics
Ambulatory Care
Long Term Care
Clinical Pharmacy
Mail Service
Community Pharmacy
Managed Care
Independent
Medical Communications/Drug Information
Chain
Compounding Pharmacy
Nuclear Pharmacy
Contract Research Organization
Office-Based Medication Management
Corporate Management
Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM)
Government/Federal Pharmacy
Home Health Care
Pharmacy Law/Regulatory Affairs/Public Policy
Health System Pharmacy
Inpatient
Specialty Pharmacy
Outpatient
Industrial Pharmacy