B.Pharm or B.Pharmacy is an undergraduate degree program for those who are interested in making a career in medicine but don’t wish to be a doctor. From studying drugs to medicine, medicinal chemistry, drug doses, and pharmaceutical engineering – students study it all. It’s one of the most popular careers to pursue for PCB students after class 12. However, after taking the B Pharma admission, many students are left startled about which career path to choose. What they don’t know is that B Pharma admission opens doors to various fields that they have never heard about. In this post, we will look at the top career paths and jobs after B.Pharm course.
What is Pharmacy?
Pharmacy is defined as the branch of science that deals with the preparation, doses, dispensing and effects (including safety) of medicines (or medicinal drugs or simply drugs). In a broad sense, Pharmacy (or Pharmaceutical Sciences) is a marriage between Health Sciences and Chemistry.
Core Subjects of Pharmaceutical Sciences:
- Human Anatomy & Physiology (Human Biology including Pathophysiology)
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry (including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Medicinal Chemistry)
- Pharmaceutics (deals with formulation, drug delivery, drug stability, dosage forms, patient acceptance etc.)
- Pharmacology (the study of effects of drugs on the human body and biological systems – a mixture of biology, physiology, and chemistry; will cover both basic, advanced and clinical pharmacology)
- Pharmacognosy (the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants; deals with botany, plant science, and phytochemistry)
- Biochemistry (the study of biological reactions within living organisms)
- Microbiology (the study of micro-organisms like bacteria, virus, protozoa etc.)
- Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology (deals with basic concepts of Chemical Engineering – e.g. Fluid Dynamics, Process Chemistry and Industrial Processes)
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B.Pharm is one of the best degrees to have for jobs abroad. Now, we will move on to the main agenda of this article – careers and job opportunities after B.Pharm.
Career Paths & Jobs after B.Pharm Course
Co-authored by Ankita Singh and Rihanna Cyrus
Clinical Research Associate
Post the B Pharma admission and completion of the course, you can take up the role of a medical underwriter, clinical research associate, CRO, and data validation associate. The numerous doors that a B.Pharma degree opens to the graduates are great to give your career the much-needed kickstart. Choose the area that looks promising and attracts your interest to give your career the right push.
R&D Scientist
R&D can be defined as any project to resolve scientific or technological uncertainty aimed at achieving an advance in science or technology. Those who are working in R&D-Pharmacy are termed as scientists with greater responsibilities and sharp knowledge.
The pharma industry mostly thrives on the R&D division. Research is of utmost importance in order to identify new medicine and evaluate the efficacy and safety of new medicines. Hence, pharmaceutical companies heavily invest in R&D, in order to enhance an existing product or create a new type of drug regarding its process, techniques & several other things. Pharmaceuticals is the only industry in India, that invest in primary research.
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Quality Control Associate
Another career path that you can choose once you have the B Pharma degree in hand is of a quality control associate. There are many government jobs that you can apply to. The job role includes developing, applying, revising and maintaining quality standards of partially or fully processed materials. You can even help in defining and implementing methods that prove beneficial in testing, evaluating and inspecting testing procedures while documenting everything.
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Formulation Development (F&D) Associate
Identifying new and more effective formulations (combinations of active drugs and other constituents) is as important as finding a new drug molecule. This is where the F&D vertical plays an important role.
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Drug Inspector
As a drug inspector, you will have to monitor the utility, safety, and quality of a drug from the time of its manufacturing to the time it is dispatched to the retail shop. The last decade has seen significant development in the pharmaceutical industry of India. It has grown to be the third-largest in the world while making a mark as one of the leading exporters of medicines in the world.
As a drug inspector, you will have to display patience and commitment to excel in the field. You must also possess the quality of dealing with combinations of salts to understand their well-being on human beings.
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Scientific Writer
If you don’t want to get into research or any other technical field, you can take up the role of a scientific writer. As a scientific writer, you will cover fields that are doing rapid advances in the field of pharmacy. This role will give you a chance to report groundbreaking and exciting records in the field. You will be researching, writing and editing scientific news, features, and articles in a clear, concise and accurate manner.
Sales & Marketing Executive
The sales and marketing job function absorbs the maximum number of pharmacy graduates. The number of jobs available in the sales function is plenty. The salary structure is also decent. More importantly, on good performances, the incentives are really lucrative. The job is challenging of course, but rewarding as well.
You have to travel a lot, and you do get chances to travel to new places in India and abroad (sponsored by employers). The pressure of achieving targets is obviously there, but, more often than not, the targets are pretty achievable.
Community Pharmacist
You can choose to become a community pharmacist after the completion of the course. Your job will be to distribute and dispense medicines. You will be working under ethical and legal guidelines while ensuring that safe and correct medicines are supplied to the general public. As a community pharmacist, you will be facing the customers directly while giving them advice and information about their general health. You will be selling OTC and prescription medicines to patients and inform them about the use and dosage.
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Conclusion
With so many career paths to choose from, your decision must be wise and well thought out. To begin with, choose the best university for your B Pharma admission. Universities like UPES offer a four-year degree program in B Pharma and admit only 60 students in one batch.
The selective procedure ensures that only the deserving candidates get admission. Admission is granted through an online test followed by a personal interview. The excellent placement panel ensures that all the students have a job in hand even before the completion of the course. So, choose wisely and make that medicine dream happen.
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