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[maldini99]

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For which specialty would an extensive drug knowledge base
(pharmacist-like) be most beneficial, other than anesthesiology?

Thanks

 

[OldPsychDoc]

For which specialty would an extensive drug knowledge base
(pharmacist-like) be most beneficial, other than anesthesiology?

Thanks

Psychiatry--we have a lot of polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, receptor affinities, etc. to worry about.

 

[dragonfly99]

agree
1) anesthesia
2) psych
It wouldn't hurt in internal medicine either, particularly geriatrics - they have lots of old people with multiple medical problems who are on multiple medications.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Agree to all of the above. There's also Toxicology, Heme-Onc, ID, Critical Care and if interested in Surgery, Transplant and Critical Care probably use the widest range of medications in which knowledge of them and their complex interactions would be useful.

 

[lowbudget]

Family Med if you're talking about breadth covering kids, adults, elderly, and pregnant, the ability to counsel, and manage multiple medical problems on acute and chronic basis. Some is true for IM and Pedi I'm sure.

But if you're talking about high level complex pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics, I'd say HIV which traditionally has been a subspecialty, even within the ranks of ID physicians, but increasingly becoming more Primary Care (FM & Gen IM). Pedi HIV remains highly specialized.

Psych does a lot of off-label stuff that, as a pharmacist, you might be comfortable with, but the science is incredibly biased by drug companies.

 

[Samoa]

For which specialty would an extensive drug knowledge base
(pharmacist-like) be most beneficial, other than anesthesiology?

Thanks

It's useful in any field involving direct patient care. If you're looking to be the drug information resource, you should probably target a specialty that serves a fairly broad slice of the population. The physicians will likely know their common drugs well, but the patients may be on a large number of medications prescribed by other physicians, and you can be a handy source of knowledge about those.

 

[DrJosephKim]

Definitely internal medicine.