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how bout pharmacology? Thats different to pharmacy right?
like isnt pharmacy more of the distributing of drugs and pharmacology is the experimenting and creation of drugs...the practical stuff taht mainly takes place in the labs?
Whats a good course/career that mainly focuses on biology and i mean job prospects and $$...like i wanna do a biology focused occupation where you use your hands most of the time
like isnt pharmacy more of the distributing of drugs and pharmacology is the experimenting and creation of drugs...the practical stuff taht mainly takes place in the labs?
Whats a good course/career that mainly focuses on biology and i mean job prospects and $$...like i wanna do a biology focused occupation where you use your hands most of the time
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ummmm thats more chem...with biochem..
its not realli bio..
*shrug* do anything.. BPharm, MBBSs, BDent all are extended Science courses with practical experience.. just do a BSc of some sort.. and its ure experience after the bachelors that counts..
its not realli bio..
*shrug* do anything.. BPharm, MBBSs, BDent all are extended Science courses with practical experience.. just do a BSc of some sort.. and its ure experience after the bachelors that counts..
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so far.... pharmacy or being a pharmacist doesnt sound so encouraging, is it that boring?
i met a friend doign pharmacy and they said you should do it if youre really in to science like specifically chem and bio and enjoy doing pracs, from that it sounded like an interesting career. But isnt there like some sort of med research, experiment around and hopefully develop a better formula for a cream or drug, perhaps a cure...so wouldnt that make it 'interesting' considering its challenging and always something new?
or am i fully off?
OH YEAH...considering pharmacy is only available at Usyd and wagga wagga, is it really competitive to get in? how many spots are available each year, roughly?
i met a friend doign pharmacy and they said you should do it if youre really in to science like specifically chem and bio and enjoy doing pracs, from that it sounded like an interesting career. But isnt there like some sort of med research, experiment around and hopefully develop a better formula for a cream or drug, perhaps a cure...so wouldnt that make it 'interesting' considering its challenging and always something new?
or am i fully off?
OH YEAH...considering pharmacy is only available at Usyd and wagga wagga, is it really competitive to get in? how many spots are available each year, roughly?
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well med research, developing formulas and all that...that's just a useful application of all the bio/chem practicals you said you were interested in.Buiboi said:
its very competitive to get in, you need a UAI of about 95 to get into USyd, low 90's to get into CSU (i know someone who got in with 92, so i duno exactly).
Yes, I'm doing second year USYD pharmacy, if you have any questions, please feel free to PM me. However, it's just under three weeks to exams so please do not expect a prompt reply. I attended the careers night just last week--it was good and there's a whole heap of things you can do with a pharmacy degree--I'll probably write a post on it when exams are done and I have three weeks to bum around.
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Pharmacist has been made redundant nowadays. We no longer need someone to mix chemicals and create concoction medicine as most medicines came in ready made and pre packaged by pharmaceutical companies. I dont know why we still have Be a pharmacist thread.
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You are so massively stupid. Who do you think works for the Pharm companies? wTF, you think Pharmacists are the people who work at the stores? Often, they are, but usually they can just be anyone or Pharm students.PrinceHarry said:
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Pharmaceutical companies employs research scientists not someone with B pharm. Once a drug has been developed by those scientists/researchers and approved for commercial production, they are produced by machines, all the necessary works are done by machines in production completely by passing pharmacist. Most pharmacist work nowadays involve giving option to choose generic and branded drugs to patients, nothing more than that.vanush said:
generally pharmaceutical scientists which as a pharmacist you are qua;lified to perform these duties. a pharmacist actually checks if the medication prescibed will interact with any of the other meds you are on, checks the doctor is doing the right thing (you would be suprised how much doctors screw up), and then makes sure the patient knows how to take the medication properly.PrinceHarry said:
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aww damn. i was really considering a career in pharmacy.
ahaha but then , it sounds so boring now.
cos yeha , thinkin of aimin either for med science / pharmacy. nethin with a mix of chem/bio in it. sounds alright =)
ahaha but then , it sounds so boring now.
cos yeha , thinkin of aimin either for med science / pharmacy. nethin with a mix of chem/bio in it. sounds alright =)
Alright, as promised, here's my rundown of what you can do with a pharmacy degree:
- Community pharmacy--both normal and compounding. The compounding pharmacist said she gets to fiddle around with a lot of funky equipment. Compounding looks like a chem lab to me, but eh.
- Hospital pharmacy--run around the wards, consult with other healthcare professionals (as the patient will usually be very sick and so requires the services of a lot of healthcare professionals), also work on aseptic preparations, check medication charts.
- Work in a professional organisation, e.g. pharm association for NSW, or pharm guild of Australia. Basically a lot of reports and officework--you really are dictating the future of the profession
- Corporate pharmacy--you work in a corporate pharmacy, e.g. Boots in London, where it's really commercialised and you're really about generating profit and is therefore quite cutthroat in terms of pace.
- Rural pharmacy--hmmm I guess it's kinda under community pharmacy but because you're probably one of, if not the only, pharmacist in that area, you're really running the entire place yourself. More intimate pharmacist-patient interactions apparently.
- Locum--it's really interesting--you get to run around the country filling in for vacancies. So you get metro and rural and suburban and everything experience. Of course, it means a lot of jetting in and driving out but the freedom is that you choose when you want to work (usually you have a list of opportunities available and you just click or contact which one you want) and because the pharmacy is indebted to you for filling in, there is extra pay (kinda like how a casual gets overloading when called in)
- Marketing and up there peoples in pharmaceutical industries and companies--there was this Irish lady who had been working in marketing and up there, quite managerial sort of role in a pharmaceutical company. She said that, with a pharmacy degree, you have an edge over the common commerce graduate because you can develop marketing and advertising strategies quite specific to that product because you'll actually know about it, e.g. salbutamol is a beta 2 agonist and it's long lasting, so you can develop a campaign for its effectiveness in treating asthma. She's currently completing an MBA, and said that quite a few pharm graduates have also done MBAs or other commercy sort of degrees so that they also get the commerce perspective.
- Academia--lecturing, researching, etc. The lecturer was a nice old guy--he gets to go on quite a few (research-related) conferences and besides the reward of imparting knowledge onto us youngies
the conferences are a great way to travel and try a few different perspectives on life.
Hmmm, because it's been at least a month since the careers night and my brain was overloaded with exam info in between, I probably missed out on a lot of stuff but yeah, these were definitely the highlights of the night.
- Community pharmacy--both normal and compounding. The compounding pharmacist said she gets to fiddle around with a lot of funky equipment. Compounding looks like a chem lab to me, but eh.
- Hospital pharmacy--run around the wards, consult with other healthcare professionals (as the patient will usually be very sick and so requires the services of a lot of healthcare professionals), also work on aseptic preparations, check medication charts.
- Work in a professional organisation, e.g. pharm association for NSW, or pharm guild of Australia. Basically a lot of reports and officework--you really are dictating the future of the profession
- Corporate pharmacy--you work in a corporate pharmacy, e.g. Boots in London, where it's really commercialised and you're really about generating profit and is therefore quite cutthroat in terms of pace.
- Rural pharmacy--hmmm I guess it's kinda under community pharmacy but because you're probably one of, if not the only, pharmacist in that area, you're really running the entire place yourself. More intimate pharmacist-patient interactions apparently.
- Locum--it's really interesting--you get to run around the country filling in for vacancies. So you get metro and rural and suburban and everything experience. Of course, it means a lot of jetting in and driving out but the freedom is that you choose when you want to work (usually you have a list of opportunities available and you just click or contact which one you want) and because the pharmacy is indebted to you for filling in, there is extra pay (kinda like how a casual gets overloading when called in)
- Marketing and up there peoples in pharmaceutical industries and companies--there was this Irish lady who had been working in marketing and up there, quite managerial sort of role in a pharmaceutical company. She said that, with a pharmacy degree, you have an edge over the common commerce graduate because you can develop marketing and advertising strategies quite specific to that product because you'll actually know about it, e.g. salbutamol is a beta 2 agonist and it's long lasting, so you can develop a campaign for its effectiveness in treating asthma. She's currently completing an MBA, and said that quite a few pharm graduates have also done MBAs or other commercy sort of degrees so that they also get the commerce perspective.
- Academia--lecturing, researching, etc. The lecturer was a nice old guy--he gets to go on quite a few (research-related) conferences and besides the reward of imparting knowledge onto us youngies
the conferences are a great way to travel and try a few different perspectives on life.Hmmm, because it's been at least a month since the careers night and my brain was overloaded with exam info in between, I probably missed out on a lot of stuff but yeah, these were definitely the highlights of the night.