- As a Medical representative or a medical detailing man.
- Marketing Managers or Sales Manager- Ambitious achievers with pleasant personality and good communication skills can opt for the job of Medical Sales Representative. The companies prefer pharmacy graduates for this job, as they have a good knowledge about the drug molecules, their therapeutic effects and the drug –drug interactions.
- Drug Inspectors.
- Drug Controllers.
- Druggist/ Chemist/ Community Pharmacist
- Drug Therapist.
- Hospital Drug Coordinator / Hospital Pharmacist
- Health Inspector.
- Preparing Prescription to Patients.
- Chemical / Drug/ Lab Technician.
- Production & Manufacturing
- R & D
- Analysis & Testing
- Academics-B. Pharm. - First Class students are eligible to teach as lecturers in the D. Pharm. It takes about 5 years to reach the grade of Sr. lecturer and about 10 years to become Assistant Professor and about 12 years to become Professor or a Principal of a college. While in teaching profession they can do research in pharmaceutical field and strive to become a well-known Research Scientist.
- Regulatory Affairs
- Quality Assurance Health Manager – The Pharmacy graduate can play an important role in the development of clinical care plans, can investigate adverse medication events and in some cases can suggest preventive measures. He can play a key role in spreading awareness amongst the people about AIDS and the preventive measures to be taken.
- Medical Transcription - The B. Pharm. graduate can work with medical practitioners to maintain the patient treatment history, the drug to which he/she is allergic etc.
- Analytical Chemist of Quality Control Manager – The pharmacy graduate can play a crucial role in controlling product quality. The drug and the Cosmetics Act (1945), Rules 71(1) and 76(1) says that the manufacturing activity should be taken up under the supervision of a technical man whose qualification should be B. Pharm., B. Sc., B. Tech. or medicine with Bio-Chemistry.
- Data Manager - A pharmacist can seek employment as “Data Manager” to store the data in the computer and process it using software developed for the purpose.
- Regulatory Manager - A pharmacy graduate can work as “Regulatory Manager” (RM) in companies and contract research organization. As an RM he has to oversee regulatory documentation such as Clinical trial approval permission, marketing approval permission etc.
- Career in Regulatory bodies - A Pharmacist can be absorbed in the Regulatory bodies like Food and Drug Administration. Pharmacist having experience in clinical trial centers can also work as an inspector to inspect the clinical trial process. For these government jobs the student needs to appear and pass the GPSC/UPSC examination. (Experience is necessary)
- Clinical Research – B. Pharm. / M. Pharm. degree holders can take up career in clinical research. The human testing phase is called the clinical trial. A pharmacist can work as clinical research associate or clinical pharmacist and can rise to the position of project manager. The clinical research associate plays an important role of monitoring and overseeing the conducts of clinical trials, which are conducted on healthy human volunteers. They have to see that the trials meet the international guidelines and the national regulatory requirements.
Monday, 22 August 2011
Job Opportunities after B. Pharm.
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