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Dear Pharmacy Student: a letter from pfizer Congratulations on your choice of profession. A vast and rewarding array of opportunities within the ever-evolving field of pharmacy awaits you. As you read through the pages of this guide, you will become familiar with a host of pharmacists who share their stories of challenges, success and professional fulfillment in their everyday practice experience. You’ll gain information on the multitude of organizations and associations that support the profession, whether to advocate, educate or simply provide a forum for networking. When you are finished, hopefully you will be armed with the information you need to evaluate the many paths before you and empowered to shape your future. We encourage you to use the resources provided in this guide to obtain additional information in any of the areas that might have peaked your interest. As a leading global research-based healthcare company, Pfizer is pleased to be a resource to which you can turn for information. Tomorrow’s pharmacist faces many more choices than ever before, and the careers summarized in this book simply illustrate the promise before you. We at Pfizer will be with you every step of the way in your professional career. We wish you much success on the road ahead. Sincerely, Salvatore J. Giorgianni, PharmD the pfizer guide to careers in pharmacy 3 By Salvatore J. Giorgianni, PharmD Director – External Relations, Pfizer Pharmaceutical Group and Pfizer Career Guide Series Editor
By J. Lyle Bootman PhD, Dean, College of Pharmacy, Professor of Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health, Arizona Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona the future of pharmacy We are living in the most exciting period in the history of pharmaceuticals, as new options lead to new opportunities for those of us in the field and those about to join us. Pharmacists are at a zenith in our ability to manage, cure and prevent disease. Demographics in this country practically ensure a bright future for those entering the profession. We’re witnessing a double dynamic in our population: growth in the number of births and an extended lifespan for men and women. The record number of baby-boomers graduating into Social Security pensioners has set the stage for an increased use of drugs. When Medicare kicks in for the largest group of elderly ever seen, there will be a pronounced increase in pharmaceutical usage. It is estimated that the number of Americans over 65, now 38 million, will mushroom to 80 million in the next decade. Add to the mix the continuing discovery of new drugs and it’s easy to understand why, over the next few years, the number of prescriptions dispensed is expected to more than double. Somewhat new on the horizon is the idea that pharmacists can operate, by choice, in both a macro- and microcosm. Pharmacists are responsible not only for the management of medications in a macroscopic sense, that is, globally, but in a microscopic sense as well. Interacting one-on-one with their patients will minimize risks of drug-related problems and maximize therapeutic benefits. We teach patients how to read labels, store their medicines, and safely dispose of expired, unused drugs. We also serve to recognize and prevent adverse medication reactions. Not long ago, people filled prescriptions content to comply with their physician’s instructions. No one ever questioned what they were taking. In fact, few people outside the healthcare field really knew much about which new drugs were available, or which worked best and why. Today, one need only turn on the television or pick up a magazine to learn about the explosion of new prescription drugs. People absorbing this information are 4 the pfizer guide > the future of pharmacy
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Page 5 and 6: iv table of contents Practice Areas
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Page 15 and 16: By Richard Penna, PharmD, Executive
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Page 21 and 22: By Carmen A. Catizone, MS, RPh, Exe
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Page 25 and 26: chapter one academic pharmacist A T
Page 27 and 28: first year in which senior faculty
Page 29 and 30: chapter two chain drug store pharma
Page 31 and 32: Regional managers have broader resp
Page 33 and 34: Managed Care By definition, chains
Page 35 and 36: chapter three community pharmacist
Page 37 and 38: Running one of the nearly 25,000 in
Page 39 and 40: chapter four compounding pharmacist
Page 41 and 42: McGowen is constantly on the phone
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Page 45 and 46: What Dr. Rhoney finds rewarding abo
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Page 49 and 50: Dr. Farthing notes that some people
Page 51 and 52: PATIENT POINT OF VIEW More drugs ar
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Page 55 and 56: Since Dr. New started in home care,
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isk of falling? Is it leeching too
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chapter nine hospital staff pharmac
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A day in the life On some mornings,
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chapter ten industry-based pharmaci
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• Education: develop programs to
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All pharmacists practicing in indus
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chapter eleven infectious disease p
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A day in the life Soon after he arr
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chapter twelve long-term care pharm
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Jarnigan also enjoys contact with a
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chapter thirteen managed care pharm
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patient when necessary, and have di
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PATIENT POINT OF VIEW “It may sou
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Officer in the Pharmacy Department
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“There are a lot of great things
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Profiling the job In addition to pr
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Dr. Miller loves his job, especiall
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support at Vanderbilt University. A
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attended her; they have become frie
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Profiling the job Like most oncolog
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although the woman — like many pa
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Pharmacy, and the College of Health
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Dr. Donnelly prefers the early shif
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chapter nineteen pediatric pharmaci
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arena after attending his first cys
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chapter twenty the pharmacist in a
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A major hurdle the program faces is
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chapter twenty-one pharmacists in n
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The Pharmacist in Financial Industr
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The Pharmacist in an Advertising Ag
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chapter twenty-two pharmacy benefit
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Dr. Manolakis is currently Regional
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Poison Control Pharmacist Checkpoin
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Did you know? More than 90 percent
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monitoring he or she needs. But eve
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Profiling the job As a primary care
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Psychiatric Pharmacist Checkpoint A
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“My job reminds me every day how
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PATIENT POINT OF VIEW The 20-year-o
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Fred Paavola, the USPHS Chief Pharm
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Did you know? Pharmacists have play
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fast facts >>>What do you need? •
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“I work to make sure that pharmac
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Did you know? The Regulatory Affair
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esidents. Last year the center care
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Being a veterinary pharmacist has c
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the pharmacist in management
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Today’s managers must rethink the
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By Bill K. Brewster, CEO and Chairm
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As a congressional representative,
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charged with a singular mission: He
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organizations and resources
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American Society of Consultant Phar
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National Community Pharmacists Asso
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