Pharmacy Continuing studies

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What is the highest degree in clinical pharmacy specialty?
How much time does it take?How much is the salary?
What is most senior manager of pharmaceutical services?
I am a pharmacy student in Manchester.
Thanks

If you want information about specific specialty programs, look up the lay-out the American College of Clinical Pharmacy puts out (ACCP):

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The American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) is a professional and scientific society that provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources enabling clinical pharmacists to achieve excellence in practice, research, and education.

www.accp.com

In general, a post graduate year 1 (PGY1) is mandated in order to obtain a more specialized field of choice for a second year residency (PGY2). The ACCP site lists each type of “highly specialized” residency program (ie oncology, cardiology, infectious diseases, informatics, pediatrics, etc).

You may also wish to do a Fellowship depending on your long-term goals being clinical or more research oriented. In general, you could do 2 years of residency plus or minus a fellowship (an additional year).

Your question about the most senior manager of pharmaceutical services is like painting with a broad brush. In any managing service within a company, the CEO is the most “senior.” Program manager and / or Director managers would be next going down the chain of command.

Salaries greatly differ as well (especially if comparing admin - management roles to PGY1 hospital pharmacist roles). It can truly be anywhere from $85k - 120k or higher. As a general consensus, you can go straight to retail from pharmacy school (avoiding any residency or fellowships) and get paid a higher salary.

 

[lord999]

The highest degree depending on the major is either the MS or the PhD depending on circumstances. The PharmD can practice in all but nuclear medicine (BCNP) settings (and the nuclear setting pretty much automatically confers the MS because of the hours and didactic requirements). The PhD is not required for anything but official statistics, and those positions are very rare as few candidates actually pursue that route. For research, the PhD is not technically required but PharmDs are more or less forbidden to conduct research alone at present without PhD support (as in, you can be the PI, but you must have PhDs are co-investigators or as research staff). In practice, most do the PharmD and residency route for standard care. None of the postgraduate years are required, but in practice, it is unlikely that you would be considered for an advanced practice position without either extensive experience or a residency/board certification.

Transferring from the Council (GPhC) to the US system is extremely difficult, and most Honours Bachelor's fail to meet the minimum requirement for the FPGEC process nowadays. I used to do vetting for FPGEC, and I can only recall less than 10 in the era that I was in who successfully navigated the qualifications process. If your original country is NOT the UK, then it becomes extremely if not impossibly difficult in this era without retraining.

With the exception of the nuclear and actuarial (PBM insurance rate statements of actuarial opinion), the US does not restrict pharmacy license practice. A pharmacist is a pharmacist is a pharmacist. For the two exceptions in addition to pharmacist licensure, the nuclear must qualify before BPS and the actuarial must qualify through the USQA process through one of the five (but usually for pharmacists, it's either health, life, or both).