How to Become a Pharmacist: Pharmacist Job Overview
Sunday May 11, 2008
How do you become a pharmacist, and how much money do pharmacists earn? If you're considering a career in pharmacy, you probably have a lot of questions such as these. Pharmacists are expected to experience more job growth over the next several years, so job prospects are good, but a career as a pharmacist is not for everyone. Over the past few years, the PharmD (Doctorate of Pharmacy) degree has replaced the R.Ph degree as the required education for a career as a pharmacist. Learn more about degree programs and job duties in the pharmacist career profile. If you're already on the path to a degree in pharmacy and a pharmacist career, you may want to learn more about the various pharmacist career paths available to you after you obtain your PharmD and your license to practice.
I never realized all of the opportunities for a pharmacist. I know so many people with a degree in pharmacy. It sounds like they have great choices for their career paths.
RPh is not a degree, it is proof of registration. The old pharmacist’s degree was a bachelor’s of pharmacy. Any practicing pharmacist, regardless of whether he/she graduated with a BS in Pharmacy or a PharmD needs to become licensed by the state that he/she is practicing it. Once that person passes licensure exams and registers, he/she becomes a registered pharmacist (RPh)
What’s so hard about counting how many of the correct pills go into a bottle?
Wow slick, that is probably the most ignorant statement/questiion I have ever read. So you think that a person goes to school for 7-8 years to count pills? Maybe they went to learn about every pill, side effects, treatments,etc. Do some research or go up to your local pharmacists and tell them their training and education is a joke, if that is what you think
Wat do u need 2 do to get into pharmacist school if you. Are done with high school and looking for a new perfesion aplicable ?
I used to agree with slick, but I am going to school right now in order to complete a transfer program for my Pharm. D., and I can’t believe the wealth of knoweledge required to “count the pills.” Also, pharmacists are becoming more and more involved in the patient process.
if you take pills its a joke. please how to read a prescription? different brands, name-brand vs. generic. the amount of dosage, the cateogories of drugs. and the cost? which is a rip-off. the pharmaceutical companies rip-off American consumers big time and make profits like the oil companies. Americans pay through the nose and then practically give it away to foreign countries then americans seeking that same drug in say Canada, the companies say those drugs are not the same.
then you get that student loan bill for college. learning all the bull for an enormous amount of money. it’s all nothing.
To Mr. “SLICK” mouth- RPh’s aren’t the ones who are counting the pills. Those are Pharmacy Techs. Get it right!
And for Walter- Pharmacists have to learn about the right dosage for drugs so that the patient get the correct amount that they need. What? You never heard of drug OD??? hello. You people are so ignorant. And also drug compatibility so if a patient needs to be on more than one drug, they won’t be given drugs that aren’t compatible that’s why they have more than one drug that can treat the same symptoms because of drug compatibility. derr!
To walter 17 ” the pharmaceutical companies rip-off American consumers big time and make profits like the oil companies”
That’s not true not even close. The pharmacy doesn’t decide what the cost of the drug are.
If you knew anything about it you would realize it’s the Insurance companies who burn people. The pharmacy will default to generic if possible to help their consumers cut back on high prices.
Insurance companies change their policies constantly with no notice, I see consumers dumbfounded every day at the raise of some deductible or high copay everyday.
“SLICK” this “PILL COUNTING PHARMACIST” is laughing all the way to the BANK!!
How do you become one?
can i still get there by starting off with life sciences?…then do you switch uni’s cause i think U of T and waterloo are the only ones in Onatiaro
how do you become a pharmacist once you get a diploma on pharmacy tech? What’s the first step?