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Career options after completing B Pharm or M Pharm
1. Teaching - B Pharm - First Class students are eligible to teach as lecturers in
the D Pharm programme, where as M Pharm, First Class students can get a
lecturer's job in pharmacy degree colleges. It takes about 5 years to reach the
grade of Sr. lecturer and about 10 years to become Assistant Professor and
about 12 years to become Professor or a Principal of a college. While in
teaching profession they can do research in pharmaceutical field and strive to
become a well-known Research Scientist.
2. Pharmacist – Being in the health-related field, the B Pharm graduate can be
Health-system Pharmacist or Hospital Pharmacist or Community Pharmacist. 3. Quality Assurance Health Manager – The Pharmacy graduate can play an
important role in the development of clinical care plans, can investigate
adverse medication events and in some cases can suggest preventive measures.
He can play a key role in spreading awareness amongst the people about AIDS
and the preventive measures to be taken.
4. Medical Transcription - The B Pharm graduate can work with medical
practitioners to maintain the patient treatment history, the drug to which
he/she is allergic etc.
5. Analytical Chemist of Quality Control Manager – The pharmacy graduate can
play a crucial role in controlling product quality. The drug and the Cosmetics
Act (1945), Rules 71(1) and 76(1) says that the manufacturing activity should be
taken up under the supervision of a technical man whose qualification should
be B Pharm, B Sc, B Tech or medicine with Bio-Chemistry.
6. Sales and Marketing – Ambitious achievers with pleasant personality and good
communication skills can opt for the job of Medical Sales Representative. The
companies prefer pharmacy graduates for this job, as they have a good
knowledge about the drug molecules, their therapeutic effects and the drug –
drug interactions.
7. Clinical Research - B Pharm/ M Pharm degree holders can take up career in
clinical research. The human testing phase is called the clinical trial. A
pharmacist can work as clinical research associate or clinical pharmacist and
can rise to the position of project manager. The clinical research associate
plays an important role of monitoring and overseeing the conducts of clinical
trials, which are conducted on healthy human volunteers. They have to see
that the trials meet the international guidelines and the national regulatory
requirements.