whats the name for a person who makes medicine?

Question

is it a pharmacist? or something else?and how many yrs do i need to be in college to study to become this ?

and what is the name for a person who tries to find cures for diseases?also how many yrs of college do you need for this occupation?

Answer 1

An apothecary

Answer 2

Pharmacists usually get the medicines already made. They might compound a couple of medicines or ingredients together, but they usually get pills and stuff already mixed up. Pharmacists go to four years of college and about four years of pharmacy school (I don't know about internships and stuff like that. They probably have to be an intern or student pharmacist for a while, but I don't know if they do that in school or afterwards.) Pharmaceutical researchers would probably need similar training, but if they weren't handing out meds to people, they probably wouldn't need a pharmacy degree. But they work in labs, so you would probably be a biochemist or something like that (master's or PhD.)

I guess somebody who researches diseases would be a pathologist or medical researcher. You'd probably need at least a master's degree, maybe a PhD. I don't know that you'd have to be an MD if you weren't working with people directly, or if you just used people in clinical trials. Now, a pathologist *is* a medical doctor, and you'd go through the regular college-four-years-of-med-school route, plus however much internshipping you need.

Answer 3

An apothecary is the old named used but now it is called a pharmacist. you have to go to college for at least five years to become a pharmacist.

Answer 4

The person that finds cures is called a medical researcher.

But when you say 'makes the medicine' that could mean any number of people. Is it the people that synthesize or extract the active ingredients or other components? Is it the folks that assemble the components and make it a 'product'. Or somebody else?

Answer 5

pharmacist

Answer 6

pharmacist