Animal friendly??

[pharmin]

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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.

 

[sdn1977]

Anyone here have experience with veterinary pharmacy?? I'm curious as to the demand and the work environments one might find in this arena.

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...

 

[njac]

Anyone here have experience with veterinary pharmacy?? I'm curious as to the demand and the work environments one might find in this arena.

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.

 

[bananaface]

Compounding pharmacies do alot of veterinary business.

 

[dgroulx]

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.

 

[TheChemist]

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.

 

[njac]

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.

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.