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I'm a pre-pharm and I am very interested in clinical pharmacy, but I was wondering if anybody could give me more information than the pfizer guide could like, is it a hot field with many positions open or is it dying? How much money do they make? What does their job really entail? And other stuffs. I would really appreciate it if I could have some of your time. I guess I have some idea of waht the job is but I want to be more filled in. I don't know any clinical pharmacists.
I could be more easily reached at [email protected]
Also, while reading the Pfizer guide, I noteced that a lot of people were doing research? I thoguht that only PhD's could do research or are we free to be a pharmacist and a researcher? Is it research on new drugs?
Also, as I was reading through the list of different pharmaceutical professions, I was wondering, are they all in very much the same as a retail pharmacist in different places? I'm just wondering, please correct me if I'm dead wrong.
Also, I don't know how to say this without offending anyone but I have to ask this question because it's been on my mind. I've shadowed a retail pharmacist for two years and I can't help but think that there is a lot of waste in the profession. Because it doesn't really challenge the professional to make any use of his/her education. He reads from computer screens and checks the labels to see if they match up, caluculates how many days supply, although the patient consultation part is cool, I can see how some pharmacists and patients could get by jsut as well if the pharmacist simply took the vial from the patients hands, read the directions straight from the vial, and parted ways.
Is clinical pharmacy like this? From what I read in Pfizer, it seems like a very challenging job with many different factors to consider when determining the medicines to give to the patient. it seems like a very problem solving job, where there might be tons of information about it online or in textbooks, but YOU have to analyze and figure things out. Not plug and chug, not search and fill in the blanks.... Am I right?
Is there any pharmacy job where your job is to analyze to solve a problem?
Sincerely,
henry
I could be more easily reached at [email protected]
Also, while reading the Pfizer guide, I noteced that a lot of people were doing research? I thoguht that only PhD's could do research or are we free to be a pharmacist and a researcher? Is it research on new drugs?
Also, as I was reading through the list of different pharmaceutical professions, I was wondering, are they all in very much the same as a retail pharmacist in different places? I'm just wondering, please correct me if I'm dead wrong.
Also, I don't know how to say this without offending anyone but I have to ask this question because it's been on my mind. I've shadowed a retail pharmacist for two years and I can't help but think that there is a lot of waste in the profession. Because it doesn't really challenge the professional to make any use of his/her education. He reads from computer screens and checks the labels to see if they match up, caluculates how many days supply, although the patient consultation part is cool, I can see how some pharmacists and patients could get by jsut as well if the pharmacist simply took the vial from the patients hands, read the directions straight from the vial, and parted ways.
Is clinical pharmacy like this? From what I read in Pfizer, it seems like a very challenging job with many different factors to consider when determining the medicines to give to the patient. it seems like a very problem solving job, where there might be tons of information about it online or in textbooks, but YOU have to analyze and figure things out. Not plug and chug, not search and fill in the blanks.... Am I right?
Is there any pharmacy job where your job is to analyze to solve a problem?
Sincerely,
henry
