Pharmacy Degrees
The job of a pharmacist is about a lot more than simply dispensing medications. These health care professionals provide advice to patients about the medications they are taking, both prescription and those available over the counter. A degree in pharmacy will prepare you for a number of career choices, including:
• Academic Pharmacist
• Community Pharmacist
• Compounding Pharmacist
• Consulting Pharmacist
• Hospital and Institutional Pharmacist
• Independent Community Pharmacist
• Managed-care Pharmacist
• Pharmaceutical Researcher
Concentrations in a pharmacy degree program include the following:
• Applied Pharmacoeconomics
• Clinical Research Regulation & Ethics
• Drug Regulatory Affairs
• Forensic Pharmacy
• Informatics
• Institutional Pharmacy Leadership
• Management
• Missions
• Patient Safety & Risk Management
• Pharmacotherapy
• Pharmacy Regulation & Policy
Examples of courses you would take as a pharmacy major include:
• Basic Nutrition
• Bio Organic Chemistry
• Calculus for the Life Science
• Chemotherapy & Immunotheraphy
• Dosage Form Design
• Drug Disposition
• Evidence Based Practice
• General Chemistry
• General Pharmacology
• Human Interactions in Healthcare
• Infectious Disease
• Introduction to Pharmacy and the Health Care System
• Issues in Pharmacy
• Management in Pharmacy
• Mathematics for the Life Sciences
• Medicinal & Poisonous Plants
• Microbiology & Immunology
• Microbiology for Pharmacists and Nutritionists
• Neurology and Psychiatry
• Organic Chemistry
• Patient Care
• Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Dispensing
• Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics
• Pharmacy Skills
• Physicochemical Principles of Drugs
• Survey of Pathology
