What after B.Pharm?
Above survey clearly indicates that most B. pharm students select their career in marketing, pharma industry, clinical research and Higher education like M. pharm / MBA or M. S. While rest select career in academics, pharmacist and entrepreneur.
Pharmaceutical industry :
• Research and development
R and D serve as a major pharma industry department and gives better career. R and D department involves drug discory , formulation and development, synthesis of new entity, evaluation by preclinical and clinical phases and so on.
• Production :
Pharmacy graduate can work as a production person, chemist, Production Manager, officer, executive, manager, Director, President, Vice-president etc. involved in the production of dosage form and policies, research in different areas. Pharmacy professionals also have opportunities in production of ayurvedic preparations and veterinary products as well as bulk drugs and cosmetics.
• Quaity assurance / Quality control
Quality and purity of drugs /dosage forms are required for human use. Identification and characterization of these are required in production, storage and during the handling of finished product. Quality control and quality assurance have assumed enormous importance in view of current GMP regulations.
• Regulatory affairs
In the current scenario pharmacy graduates and postgraduates are in high demand for patent filing and global expansion of drug manufacturing activities. The job opportunities for Pharmacy graduates are excellent in the regulatory body governing and implementing the rules and regulations for the pharmaceutical industry.
Marketing
The Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing is a highly technical field and offers excellent opportunities for the pharmacy graduates. 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. pharmacist can acquire following position in marketing department.
• Product Management
• Medical Representative
• Area Manager
Higher education
• M. Pharm
It’s a two year full time post-graduate course. M. pharm offers specialization in various streams like Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical analysis, Quality assurance, Pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacognosy, clinical pharmacy, industrial pharmacy and many more.
• MBA in Pharmaceutical Management
2-Years, Full Time or 3 year, part time course available in various management colleges in India. MBA (Pharma Management) is industry-specific program prepares Pharmaceutical Executives with the knowledge and skills required to lead the industry in the 21st century.
Clinical Research
• BA/BE studies (Bioavailability and Bioequivalence)
BA/BE studies involves compaision of the test product with the product which is already in market(Reference). The PK parameters included Cmax, AUC, Tmax, elimination rate constant. B. pharm graduate have sound knowlage about biopharmaceutics and its related terms hence he/ she fit with such BA/ BE studies.
• Clinical trial
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.
• Pharmacovigilance (PV) and Clinical data management (CDM)
PV relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. Now a days, major IT sector companies involves in field of PV and CDM like TCS, cognizant, Wipro etc.
• Medical writer / coder
Medical writing involves communicating clinical and scientific data and provides information in various types of formats, its constmised scientific data according to the requirement.
Miscellaneous
• Entrepreneur
• community Pharmacist
• chemist and pharmacist
• Teaching at D. pharmacy colleges
What after M.Pharm?
Formulation and development
Pharmaceutical preformulation is a stage of drug development during which the physicochemical properties of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) are characterized. M. pharm with specialization in pharmaceutics / industrial pharmacy can make entry into this department .
Pre-clinical Research / drug discovery
M. pharm specialised with pharmacology have great opportunities in drug discovery and pre-clinical research. The main goals of pre-clinical studies are to determine a product's ultimate safety profile. Products may include new or iterated or like-kind medical devices, drugs, gene therapy solutions, etc.
Analytical and Bio-analytical Department
The focus of bioanalysis in the pharmaceutical industry is to provide a quantitative measure of the active drug and/or its metabolite(s) for the purpose of pharmacokinetics, toxicokinetics, bioequivalence and exposure–response (pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics studies).
Academics
Most of Post Graduate candidates are choosing academic field as profession because of job satisfaction, facility for higher education and research, social status and comfort. Promotion scheme in academia is well defined by the regulatory bodies with a definite service length i.e., Lecturer, Sr. Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, Principal/ Director. 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.
Drug inspector
The Central and State Governments are empowered to appoint Drugs Inspectors and to assign them definite areas. Drug Inspectors are deemed to be public servants and are officially sub-ordinate to Licensing Authority. Drug inspectors are important component of drug regulatory activity
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