A question for people doing or have done pharmacy at university?
Question:
Also, whats the difference/ definitions of pharmacy, pharmachology and pharmaceuticals?
Thanks in advance!
I'm asking this question because im thinking about pursuing a career in pharmacy. :-)
Answers:
I'm currently going to school to be a pharmacy technician
the program I'm in is only 9 months long so the things they teach probably differ in a lot of ways from a course you might take at a normal college or university but we learn about different drugs' trade and generic names, general measurements and conversions we might be doing and we also learn a lot about the body so you can have a better understanding of how the body works and how these drugs you are handling react with it, also since one of the other things you are able to do is extract medications from vials and stuff they teach you about using IV's and needles. It is quite interesting to me. Towards the end of the 9 month program we do an internship at a hospital usually where we will work with chemotherapy drugs. You learn the most during your internship. and this typically leads to a job. I plan on going to a university to become a pharmacist after I graduate from here.
also you asked..
"Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmakon (φάρμακον) meaning drug, and lego (λέγω) to tell (about)) is the study of how substances interact with living organisms to produce a change in function.[1] If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals. The field encompasses drug composition and properties, interactions, toxicology, therapy, and medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities."
taken from .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pharmacolog...
I hope I helped, maybe just a crumb. lol
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