I'm considering changing my career plan to become a pharmacist. I don't really have a good history with chemistry or the other hard sciences. I know that I can buckle down and do the coursework because I'm motivated. I would like to know how much chemistry and other stuff pharmacists do on a daily basis. Ostensibly, it seems like an easy profession...if I make it through pharmacy school, how much REALLY complicated stuff will I do on a daily basis?
2006-09-20 07:12:43 · 5 answers · asked by soispasignunt 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
general chemistry
organic chemistry
medicinal chemistry
pharmacokinetics
unless you do clinical drug research, you won't need to remember everything. chemistry is suppose to help you understand how drugs fuction in the body
2006-09-23 13:18:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-28 22:01:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure SEEMS easy doesn't it. The reason that Pharmacy school is sometimes four years long is becuase it is so 'easy'. Think about that one for a minute.
If you lack a 'good history' with chemistry and hard sciences, I have some advice. Quit now!
Pharmacy school requires physics, calculus, and two years of chemistry......to even apply. And once you get in, there is even more chemistry.
As for how much REALLY complicated stuff do we do on a daily basis, the answer is some. But just because it isn't always done constatnly, doesn't mean that you can be incapable of it and hope to defer it on someone who does. When an answer is needed, it is needed quickly......from you.
2006-09-21 05:14:24 · answer #3 · answered by jloertscher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on what kind of setting youre working in... if you work in research, a hospital or the drug industry you might be doing a lot of complicated calculations and using some chemistry. in school you will at minimum probably need to take a year worth of gen chem, a semester of bio chem, and a year of organic chem as a prepharmacy requirment (varies school to school so it might be different from what i said). retail you dont really use a lot of chemistry, but you have to know a lot of information. learning it is hard but once you know it its pretty much spitting it back out and answering questions. and if you work in a busy store its not nearly as easy as it looks at a glance, people are crabby and many retail pharmacists dont have enough support staff and are overworked.
2006-09-20 15:35:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good pharmacist can look at the chemical structure of a drug, and tell you what the drug is for. For this past exam, I had more than 50 pages of notes to study. This is not an easy profession.
2006-09-21 12:25:48 · answer #5 · answered by Lea 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋