PHARMACY PROFESSSION

&
CAREER OPTIONS

Azhar Danish Khan

M.Pharm (PhD)
Associate Professor
(Pharmaceutics)
• Pharmacists are healthcare professionals
with specialized education and training who
perform various roles to ensure optimal
health outcomes for their patients through
the quality use of medicines. 
• Pharmacy is the science and technique of
preparing, dispensing, and review of drugs and
providing additional clinical services.
• It is a health profession that links health sciences
with pharmaceutical sciences and aims to ensure
the safe, effective, and affordable use of drugs.
• Pharmacists are medication experts who use
their detailed knowledge of medicines to help
patients get well
 DRUG
A substance intended for use in the
diagnosis, cure, mitigation,
treatment, or prevention of disease
 WHAT DO WE STUDY ?
• Pharmaceutics- Art and Science of dosage forms
• Pharmacology – What drug does to body and
what body does to drug?
• Pharmaceutical Chemistry- Synthesis of drugs
and Analysis
• Pharmacognosy – about Plants and Natural
sources used as drugs
PRACTICE SETTINGS
 COMMUNITY PHARMACY

Concept in developed countries

Role in patient treatment
Pharmacists is a link between patient and treating physician

• Counselling the patient about use of drugs and dosage

RETAIL
forms
• Providing up to date information
WHOLE SALE
• Maintaining patient record and disease treatment therapy
• Training of patient using self diagnostic kits
 HOSPITAL PHARMACY

• As a registered Pharmacists in Hospital and drug store

• Dispensing medicines and keeping record of IPD patients

• Providing up to date information

• Counselling the patient about use of drugs and dosage forms
• Maintaining patient record and disease treatment therapy
 CLINICAL PHARMACY

ADR (Adverse Drug Reaction) prevention, detection, monitoring.

Reducing drug interactions and drug related problems. Taking patient
medication history Taking part in ward rounds along with doctors and
nurses Deciding/adjusting medication dosing for patients Providing
drug information
INDUSTRY SETTINGS
 PRODUCTION

Production and Manufacturing of

Tablets ,Capsules ,syrups ,Injections ,creams ,gels ,cosmeti
cs

• Chemist
• Supervisor
• Production Manager Packaging
• General Manager
Minimum qualification can be B.Pharm
 QUALITY ASSURANCE

Pharmaceutical quality assurance—

Pharmaceutical quality assurance may be
defined as the sum of all activities and
responsibilities required to ensure that
the medicine that reaches the patient is
safe, effective, and acceptable to the
patient.
 QUALITY CONTROL

Quality Control (QC) is the group that performs the actual testing

on raw materials, as well as final products. They execute the
analysis of chemical batches or medical devices, testing samples and
compiling the performance data.
 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (R&D)

It is the heart of any Industry . For better treatment new

drug molecules and new dosage form development is a
continuous process

• Developing a new dosage form

• Formulation development
• Discovering a new drug molecule

M.Pharm /PhD is essential

 Visiting the Physician and
SALES & MARKETING informing about the
product

The number of jobs available in the sales function is plenty. The

salary structure is also decent. More importantly, on good
performance the incentives are really lucrative. The job is
challenging of course, but rewarding as well.

• Medical Representative B.Pharm Product Management Team

• Area Sales Manager (PMT)
• Regional Sales Manager
• Zonal Sales Manager B.Pharm+MBA
• National Sales Manager
OTHER SETTINGS
 ACADEMICS

LECTURER
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR M.PHARM /Ph. D FOR TEACHING
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PROFESSOR
 • NOVARTIS

PHARMACOVIGILANCE · PARAXEL

· COGNIZANT

A pharmacovigilance associate monitors all products and · MAKROCARE

conducts post-market evaluations to ensure drug safety.
These experts are actively involved in assessing adverse · INVENTIVE
event writings, updating reports on safety, conducting
quality and conveying drug related case reports to · MAHINDRA
appropriate authorities. SATYAMBSG

· DR REDDY’S
 REGULATORY AFFAIRS

• TCS
The regulatory affairs (RA) department of a
• CIPLA
pharmaceutical company is responsible for obtaining
• GENPACT
approval for new pharmaceutical products and
• GSK
ensuring that approval is maintained for as long as
• WIPRO
the company wants to keep the product on the
market.
 CLINICAL RESEARCH

•APCER Life Sciences

Clinical research is a field that deals with the study & •Bioclinica
analysis of health & illness in Humans. ... It involves •Catalyst Clinical
human participants and helps translate basic research Services
into new treatments and information to beneficial for •IQVIA
patients. Clinical Trials or Clinical Studies involves
human volunteers
 MEDICAL CODING/
DATA ANALYSIS

A medical coder is, in essence, a translator. As part of the medical

team, the medical coder reviews the patient's file and translates
everything from that file into universal codes required by
insurance companies. It's the medical coder's responsibility to make
sure the right code is used every single time.
GOVERNMENT SETTINGS
DRUG INSPECTOR- Inspecting drug stores and
Manufacturing premises
B.Pharm and 18 Months Industrial Experience is
required DRUG CONTROLLER GENERAL OF
INDIA

STATE DRUG CONTROLLER

GOVT.DRUG ANALYST Testing of samples
collected during inpection in the Govt approved DRUG INSPECTOR
laboratories
B.Pharm and 3 year Experience in testing of
pharmaceuticals
GOVT PHARMACIST IN HOSPITAL
THANK YOU