Pharmacist - manager of Pharmacology

Specialist - an expert who thoroughly understands the medications, their use, composition and dosages. Currently, it is the highest category specialist, who works under the supervision of pharmacists, counselors and other staff of pharmacy items. Modern specialist - a sort of manager of pharmacy: in theory it can be engaged in preparing and dispensing, in fact, as a rule, leads the process.

Even 15-20 years ago, the pharmacist is mainly finished product. Today, specialists with higher pharmaceutical education slightly different set of tasks. Despite the fact that most of today's pharmacists, as before, working in pharmacies, their duties include not cooking preparations and leave the final dosage forms and advice customers.

Large network of pharmacies to provide work for a whole generation of students and graduates of pharmaceutical faculties. graduates rarely linger for "first table" (drug holidays without a prescription) for a long time: the higher pharmaceutical education leads to quite a rapid career. Often, after working a year or two on the drug holiday, young people are going to increase - becoming deputy head and then head of the pharmacy. You can work and medical institutions: hospitals and sanatoriums. There are also pharmacists, technicians (responsible for the industrial production of medicines) and pharmacists-analysts (carry out quality control and handle licensing). In addition, experts with specialized education can apply their knowledge in the marketing of the pharmacological market in the field of import of medicines procurement and their derivatives.

Pharmacist in handy:

love for the natural and exact sciences. First and foremost, of course, to chemistry - with this discipline it is related to both study and follow-up work. Therefore, a variety of "valence-proportion namolli-gram" should not cause repulsion;

willingness to learn. Job requires constant "upgrade" of information, training and self-education, or career in pharmacology can not be done;

 physical endurance, often the pharmacist have to spend all day on their feet;

accuracy. Pharmacy, as well as any medical facility requires cleanliness and order. This is especially significant during epidemics, when employees almost continually under attack germs and viruses of all kinds;

communication skills and compassion for people. Should not just listen to the visitor, but also insight into his problem, to give really good advice. An experienced specialist - it's kind of a doctor, who, if necessary, warn the buyer about the possible dangers of self-medication and sends it to the clinic for consultation.

Any pharmacist, regardless of the place of work must be well aware pharmacology and chemistry, navigate the medications, their types and groups, feed, and so on. N. On the market every now and then there are the new generation of drugs that are produced analogues of existing drugs ... Go a pharmacological group includes a drug which components are part of it, how it differs from their own kind, what are the indications, contraindications, side effects - all these details now known pros.

If a pharmacist working in a drugstore or medical institution, its duties include tolerance, politeness and attentiveness. In this case, "in combination", he performs psychological function: have to work not only with people, and with patients. The percentage of visitors to the pharmacy, buying dietary supplements or vitamins, is low - most have health problems, and their mood appropriate. Moreover, falling ill, nine out of ten people do not follow the recipe to the doctor and go straight to the pharmacy. Thus, the specialist turns to a doctor and a therapist all rolled into one: he must "diagnose", "give the recipe", to pick up the correct dosage and patiently listen to complaints about the high cost of aspirin grandmother.

If the job pharmacist associated with the promotion of medicinal products on the market, procurement or logistics, you must understand the management, marketing and fundamentals of the economy. After all, the head of pharmacy, in fact, the manager: his responsibilities in many ways similar to the functionality of the control store and the main task - to create a competitive business. In this case, the important qualities such as portability, ability to creatively and outside the box thinking. Pharmacist who works with foreign partners, and more useful knowledge of a foreign language.

In pharmacology acute shortage of staff, so the majority of young professionals starts from college. As a rule, the first step of career becomes pharmacy or one of the online pharmacies.

In any case it has to start with the "first table". This is where newcomers get acquainted with the basics of the profession: learning to choose appropriate drugs and their analogs, are "training" in communication with a variety of clients, learn effective organization of work. Further career can be folded in different ways. However, a person with higher profile education and at least a minimum of experience, has a good chance in almost all segments of the pharmaceutical market.