Pharmacy is the art and science of preparing and distributing medicines along with the provision of drugs and health to the public. Many people want to be pharmacists who give the medicine to people and tell people how to use it correctly because of the high income pharmacists receive. In order to become a pharmacist a person must have a license from the state at which they work. After high school people who want to be pharmacists must go through at least six years of schooling including undergraduate and pharmacy school. What many of people don't realize however is how many different types of pharmacists there are. There is academic, chain drug store, community, compounding, critical care, drug information, home care, hospice, hospital staff, industry-based, infectious disease, long-term care, managed care, and military pharmacists.
These all the types I found in the packet Dr.Traina sent me. Dr.Traina is an academic pharmacist so she teaches students at St.John Fisher while she also works with patients at this diabetes center on 224 Alexander Street, Rochester in suite 200. My next blog will on onto two other types besides academic that interested me. So enjoy this introduction next time will go more in depth.
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References:
http://explore.usask.ca/programs/nondirect/ph/
http://www.bls.gov/k12/science02.htm
http://pharmacy.osu.edu/academics/introduction-to-pharmacy/materials/PfizerPharmacyCareerGuide.pdf %20(pamphlet (pamphlet)
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http://www.2flashgames.com/images_/f-Funny-Pharmacy-5630-th.jpg
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