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pharmin

Pharmin in Gamecock Land
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Anyone here have experience with veterinary pharmacy?? I'm curious as to the demand and the work environments one might find in this arena.
 
pharmin said:
Anyone here have experience with veterinary pharmacy?? I'm curious as to the demand and the work environments one might find in this arena.
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I work near two veterinary hospitals. They use their own technicians to dispense veterinary medications - one was a pharmacy tech student of mine. For the medications which are not available in vet formulations, the vet just calls or writes the rx & we fill it - just like a human.

My ex-pharmacy tech student said they prepackage the medications, label them, get them checked by the vet - just like hospital prepacking work. The vet does all the instruction, monitoring, etc...
 
pharmin said:
Anyone here have experience with veterinary pharmacy?? I'm curious as to the demand and the work environments one might find in this arena.
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it's something I'm considering as well. my dog spent a week in the ICU and had surgery last week - the vets were asking me all sorts of pharm questions.

I do know that at at least one vet school in the country has a pharmd as their pharmacology prof. this intrigues me.
 
I talked to a couple of pharmacists who work for 1-800-PET-MEDS, in south Florida. They were at a career fair. Basically, you talk to people on the phone and give them advice on what do to for their pet.
 
I also had some interest in this field. I just don't know enough about it. My wife will be starting Vet School this year and we were seeing if there would be a way to mix the two professions together and do something together. I just don't know if that is possible.
 
TheChemist said:
I also had some interest in this field. I just don't know enough about it. My wife will be starting Vet School this year and we were seeing if there would be a way to mix the two professions together and do something together. I just don't know if that is possible.
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there are a couple veterinary pharmacy residencies available.

http://www.svhp.org/ Society of Veterinary Hospital Pharmacists

I just finished my first year of pharmacy school so I still want to do everything. the average small animal hospital (my dog was at a VCA specialty clinic - in the 6 hours I was in the waiting room one day I counted 60 animals coming in for appointments and there were 12 others in the ICU so I thought it seemed pretty busy) usually just appoints a tech to take care of filling prescriptions. the average pet isn't on the 15-20 meds we see in our geriatric human patients so I don't know if interactions are as much of an issue.
 
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