Working inside hospital, dispensing medications, advising patients on drug use, counseling with
patients and healthcare professionals for any drug-related problems, compounding extemporaneous
drug preparations for individual patient, and managing drug inventory and usage in hospitals.
Clinical pharmacist
Working closely with healthcare team to optimize patient care, choosing drug and dosage regimen
for individual patient, monitoring drug efficacy and safety, looking for drug therapy to promote health
and prevent disease, and providing drug information to healthcare team and patients upon request.
Community pharmacist
Working in drug store as a practitioner, having roles in primary care services for public, analyzing
symptoms and selecting appropriate drug for suffering people, monitoring drug use in people with
chronic diseases, and providing health promotion in community.
Family pharmacist
Working closely with family, taking care of patients at their own house, verifying drug use and storage,
monitoring effectiveness of drug use in chronic diseases of bed-ridden patients, and referring back to
hospitals (if necessary), and promoting health awareness and disease prevention.
Clinical research associate pharmacist
Working in drug company or clinical trial unit, conducting research on new drug or new procedures
of using old drugs, studying drug effectiveness, cost- benefit, drug non- adherence, or incidence of
adverse drug events, etc.
Academic pharmacist
Working in University, teaching and training pharmacy students, doing research on new drug discovery,
pharmacy practice, therapeutic and health outcomes in patients, and updating educational textbooks and
tools in patient care area.
Medical science liaison pharmacist
Working as a bridge between pharmaceutical company and healthcare professionals, providing
knowledge and information of new products and treatments to prescribers and related professionals.
Business owner
Working as owner of independent drug stores, chain drug stores, health products business, clinical
research company, drug product registration company, drug/cosmeceuticals/nutraceuticals import
and/or export company, etc.
The ultimate success of a pharmacist's practice relies on applying expertise to minimize the consumer's risk of harm from medication while maximizing the positive outcomes in disease prevention and treatment.
The ultimate success of a pharmacist's practice relies on applying expertise to minimize the consumer's risk of harm from medication while maximizing the positive outcomes in disease prevention and treatment.
Division of Information Technology and Instructional Media, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University.
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