Pharmacy

Dispense drugs prescribed by physicians and other health practitioners and provide information to patients about medications and their use. May advise physicians and other health practitioners on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications.

On the job, you would:

1. Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability
2. Assess the identity, strength, or purity of medications.
3. Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage.

Jobs directly related to Pharmacy degree include:

1. Pharmacist
2. Community pharmacist
3. Hospital pharmacist
4. Research scientist (medical)

Jobs where the degree would be useful include:

1. Clinical research associate
2. Higher education lecturer
3. Medical sales representative
4. Medical science liaison
5. Pharmacologist
6. Physician associate
7. Product/process development scientist
8. Regulatory affairs officer
9. Research scientist (life sciences)
10. Science writer Toxicologist

Studying pharmacy allows students to gain skills relevant to the profession of a pharmacist, such as:

1. Knowledge of facts and theories relating to discovery, design, development, manufacture, and distribution of pharmaceuticals knowledge of drug characteristics and clinical applications ability to communicate effectively with patients and other health professionals how people react to the medications they take pharmaceutical manufacturing certain scientific documentation pharmaceutical instrumentation operation awareness of the law and ethical considerations with medicine provision medication examination an awareness of individual patient care as well as public health issues.
2. You also get a variety of abilities that are appealing to companies in different industries. These include: interpersonal and communication skills the ability to work well as part of a team numeracy and computation critical evaluation and research skills problem-solving skills and the ability to think clearly and methodically time management and organisational skills commercial awareness.