Career

Choosing a career in pharmacy is saying yes to a dynamic, challenging and rewarding career full of opportunity. Whether you are fueled by patient interaction, educating the pharmacists of tomorrow, developing more effective and safe pain medications or want to put your love of animals ,Glocal School of Pharmacy at Glocal University will prepare you for an inspired career in pharmacy.

A few popular career paths include:

Academia

Academic pharmacists play a key role in educating the pharmacists of tomorrow, including training future pharmacists and conducting research.

A few benefits of pursuing a career in academia is a more flexible schedule, interaction with students and opportunities for advancement.

Areas of academic pharmacy include:

• Clinical Practice
• Economic, Social and Administrative Sciences
• Pharmaceutical Sciences

Clinical Specialties

Specializing in specific pharmacy practice areas allows you to improve patient care with board-certified expertise.

Community Pharmacy

Community pharmacists are a patient’s most accessible health care provider, and as medication experts, they are critical to maintaining and improving patients’ health.

As a community pharmacist you will work with customers to fill their prescriptions, explain proper medication use, and provide clinical services. Community pharmacists also work with doctors to identify possible drug interactions.

Community pharmacy careers include:

• Chain Community Pharmacy Management
• Community Health Center
• Compounding Pharmacy
• Independent Community Pharmacy

Government Pharmacy

A career in government pharmacy offers a wide variety of opportunities, including clinical, research and administrative roles at the local, state and federal agency 

Long-Term Care Pharmacy

Long-term care pharmacy provides pharmacists with the opportunity to work mostly with the elderly and their families.

They provide medicine and drug treatments for long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities, group homes and rehabilitation facilities. Long-term care pharmacists also serve patients with HIV, multiple sclerosis or developmental challenges.

Managed Care and Pharmacy Benefit Management

Pharmacists that work in managed care have a variety of responsibilities including dispensing drugs, monitoring patient safety, developing clinical programs and managing costs. Many pharmacists that work in managed care work for health plans and pharmacy benefit management companies.

Pharmacists in these roles are key in ensuring patients get the appropriate medications in a cost-effective way.

Careers in managed care and pharmacy benefit management include:

• Managed Care Outpatient Pharmacy
• Mail Service
• Pharmacy Benefit Management

Medical Communications

A career in medical communications embodies the spirit of educating others to improve patient care. Pharmacists who specialize in medical communications educate health care professionals, consumers and other pharmacists about pharmaceutical products, including prescription drugs.

Work settings may include medical communications and medical education agencies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, schools, managed care organizations, poison control centers or hospitals.

Careers in medial communications may include:

• Association Management
• Medical Communications Drug Information
• Pharmacy Law, Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy

Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmaceutical researchers develop new medications, test new substances, evaluate existing products and create new dosage forms. They also ensure that drug labeling is accurate and meets the requirements of state and federal laws.

A career in research and development can include a high degree of pressure, but it is often matched by the satisfaction in helping discover and develop innovative and new treatments for better patient care.

Careers in the pharmaceutical industry include:

• Contract Research Organization
• Corporate Management
• Medical Science Liaison
• Research and Development
• Sales and Marketing

Specialty Pharmacy

Specialty pharmacists focus on appropriate drug utilization in conjunction with ongoing monitoring of patient care. As a specialty pharmacist, you dispense medication in certain chronic.