Pharma or a Bachelor of Pharmacy is about realizing the aspects and the impacts of medicines and emerging the skills required to assist with their uses. In order to practice this field, a graduate should have a thorough knowledge inadequate skills and examine medicinal causes including mode of action, drug interactions and Patient counseling, and professional information exchange with Physicians and other paramedics. Moreover, it is crucial to gain thorough knowledge regarding formulating, storing, and analyzing different pharmaceutical quantities including herbal medicine that is essential for both massive commercial manufacturing as well as for research purposes.
The pharmacist should act as a bridge between Physicians and Patients and strive for better health care. They may have to cater to both government and private health care projects which aid to market the medicinal agents and mitigating health care issues.
What is B. Pharma?
This Degree Program provides training in fields including Human Anatomy & Physiology, pharmacology & Toxicology, drugs and medicines, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, biochemistry, Applied Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Stereochemistry, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Natural Chemistry, pharmacy practice (including pharmacotherapeutics, disease state management, etc.), pharmaceutics, ethics, pharmacy management, physiology, anatomy, kinetics, Computer Science and Statistics, compounding medications, pharmacy law, Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence & Ethics, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Pharmaceutical Technology & Biopharmaceutics, Instrumental & Biomedical Analysis, Pharmaceutical Microbiology & Biotechnology, Pathophysiology,
If you are familiar with C++, you can learn Bio Suite software that is widely used in big Pharma companies.
Learning B. Pharma will enable students to,
- Have a sound understanding of daily health issues that patients face.
- Should be capable of functioning independently in both rural and urban environments.
- Appraise fellow professionals in Hospitals, communities, and industries of newer developments in pharmacy.
- Enroll in both local and international health education programs.
- Aware regarding the community hygiene, disease-preventing methods and to improve health.
- Inculcate critical thinking, clarity of expression, independent thinking, and scientific temperament.
- Inspire group discussions, seminars, peer interactions that aid to develop disciplines, communicating skills, personality, and other skills.
- Market and produce the products at minimum pollution hazards according to standardized scientific techniques.
Career Opportunities
Once you are Graduated, you can consider employment in both public & private sector as…… ;
- Chemical technician
- Drug therapist
- Scientist
- Drug inspector
- Pharmacist
- Research & Development
- Health inspector
The Pharmacists will also have many roles such as ;
- Industrial pharmacist (production, quality control and assurance, packing)
- Hospital and Community Pharmacist (Dispensing of Medicines and Counselling of patients),
- Marketing executive (Briefing the consultants and distribution medicine in bulks)
- Academic Pharmacist (training diploma in pharmacy students)
Postgraduate Opportunities
Some students pursue MBA after B.Pharm whereas some pursue it after gaining a few years experience (usually in sales and marketing). Depending upon your talent, qualifications, and how good your MBA university is, students can get jobs in higher management of pharmaceutical companies.
M.Pharm can do in many fields like pharmaceutics, pharmacology, pharmaceutical chemistry, clinical pharmacology, pharmacognosy, biotechnology, etc. M.Pharm graduates either join the industry as scientists or as lecturers in universities. Some M.Pharm students pursue a Ph.D. which is required to become a professor in good International universities. A lot of Ph.D. holders also join the industry.
If you are interested, you can go for clinical research. It is one of the booming career prospects for students and there is huge potential in the field in the future.
Some B.Pharm graduates pursue LLB and become lawyers. Afterward, can specialize areas in pharmaceutical jurisprudence, patents, intellectual property laws, etc.
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