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The profession of a pharmacist has been valued since ancient times, and specialists in this field enjoyed universal honor and respect. And this is understandable: the work is hard and responsible, it is long and difficult to study.

Not everyone is capable of such a step. In the specialty of a pharmacist, higher education can be obtained at the chemical-pharmaceutical academy or at the pharmaceutical faculty of universities. Many medical universities, a pharmacist can also work there, have specialized departments where they train specialists with the appropriate certificate.

Training in the specialty of a pharmacist

Planning to master this profession, do not forget about the qualities that a person must possess if he wants to succeed in his chosen field. These include:

  • increased attention, the ability to be collected in any life troubles, extremely accurate (preparation of medicines does not allow carelessness, negligence and inattention; even slightly violating the recipe, you can get poison instead of medicine);
  • patience (customers are different, not always clearly knowing and understanding what exactly they need), responsiveness (no matter how tired the employee is, the client should not suffer, you always need to put yourself in the place of another person, serve him the way you would like to be served yourself);
  • be responsible, have the ability to self-discipline and self-control;
  • have a phenomenal memory (otherwise how to keep in mind such a countless number of names medicines and their dosages)
  • have analytical skills;
  • have a subtle and sensitive sense of smell.

And what is unacceptable for a specialist of this profile: inattention to patients, negligence in the implementation of their professional activities and the preparation of prescription drugs, indifference to other people's health problems, rudeness towards clients, excessive irritability, inability to switch off from family troubles and problems.

Where are you trained to be a pharmacist?

The following higher educational institutions are engaged in the preparation of specialists in this profession:

  • First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov;
  • St. Petersburg Chemical Pharmaceutical Academy;
  • Perm Pharmaceutical Institute;
  • Pyatigorsk Pharmaceutical Institute.

You can also get specialized education at the pharmaceutical departments of most medical institutes countries.

Anyone can get a second higher education as a pharmacist. Including economic or legal, which will open up broader prospects in terms of professional activities. Just keep in mind that the second higher education in our country is a paid pleasure, and not always affordable.

Anyone can graduate from the Pharmacist Institute. Although so far, as in Soviet time, the capital education remains in the price. But do not be upset if it is not available. Other universities of the country train high-level specialists in this specialty, who can boldly compete with graduates of metropolitan universities and academies.

University pharmacist graduates with a diploma that does not give the right to exercise professional activity. In order to work in the specialty, you need to complete residency, internship or graduate school and obtain the appropriate certificate, which confirms the right of a specialist to carry out professional activities.

In the future, working in the specialty, you can improve your professional level and take exams for assigning a category. After five years of continuous work experience, you can get the second category, after working for seven years and having the relevant experience, you can get the first category. And for assigning the highest category work experience in the specialty should be ten or more years.

And a little about what the representatives of this profession do in order to get a complete picture and understand the specifics of the industry. The essence of the work of this specialist is as follows:

  • advising patients on various types of medicines, selling them;
  • storage and distribution of medicines;
  • compiling surveys on the needs of the population in various types medicines, with their subsequent provision;
  • quality control of drugs purchased by the pharmacy chain;
  • search for new drugs, changing the properties of existing drugs;
  • the manufacture of medicines;
  • development of technologies for the manufacture of medicines.

And these are just the main areas of activity of the representatives of the profession. This is a caste, to which one is considered prestigious. This is one of the most dynamically developing areas. A person with this profession will never be left without a job. People got sick and continue to get sick, which means that they will go to the pharmacy for medicines. There are still many diseases for which no cure has been found, which means that there is something to work on in research institutes and laboratories.

If you decide to study as a specialist in the pharmaceutical industry, then you need to know that you can get the profession of a pharmacist after graduating from college or college. But for the sake of a pharmacist diploma, you will have to graduate from a higher educational institution. The difference is that the pharmacist has the right immediately after graduation from the university to hold leadership positions, for example, to be the head of a pharmacy. A pharmacist, on the other hand, will be able to conduct independent pharmaceutical work, including managing a pharmacy, only if he has more than 3 years of work experience.

Currently, in Moscow, training in the specialty "Pharmacy" is carried out by one college and several universities. We have prepared an overview of the conditions for admission in 2016 to each of them.

Get a diploma in the specialty "Pharmacy" offers the Moscow State educational complex, accepting documents from graduates of the 9th and 11th grades. In the educational complex there is an opportunity to study for a period of 1 year on a part-time basis (in case you already have medical education, educational complex reread most items). At the end of the course, graduates receive a diploma state sample about secondary vocational education and a certificate of a specialist. Tuition fee in 2016/2017 will amount to 70,000 rubles per year for those who apply before June 1. For the rest - the cost will be increased to 100,000 rubles per year.

A number of Moscow universities also offer training in pharmaceutical areas. For example, there is a Faculty of Pharmacy. Currently, it is training specialists in programs higher education in the following areas: Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Medical Biological Physics, Medical Biological Chemistry, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics. The admission plan for the specialty "Pharmacy" is 200 people for full-time education for a period of 5 years. Graduates are awarded the qualification "Pharmacist". The cost of training for the first year is 210,000 rubles.

In the direction of "Pharmacy" 15 budget and 120 paid places are provided. Full-time education takes 5 years. The amount of the annual payment is 179,200 rubles for 2016/2017 academic year. In 2016, the submission of documents in electronic form is provided.

If you decide to go to study as a pharmacist, you need to know: when entering the specialty "Pharmacy", applicants undergo mandatory preliminary medical examinations (examinations).

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November 07, 2018

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Training in the specialty of a pharmacist can take place in several forms: full-time and part-time. Each of them has its pros and cons.

You can get an education as a pharmacist in absentia at a college or higher educational institution. Let's find out what kind of education to prefer and where you can study as a pharmacist in absentia.

Part-time education of a pharmacist

Apply for extramural, the pharmacist may already have an average special education, can anyone who already has a job, but wants to continue their education. The essence of such an educational program is as follows: the student attends classes in his spare time, i.e. if the work schedule is in shifts, then this is quite realistic to implement. Synonymous with evening education. This is what distinguishes it from the completely correspondence education of pharmacists, when students appear at the faculty only during the credit week and session, while at work they receive paid study leave.

In this kind educational activities has its advantages:

  • you can combine study with work, earn your own seniority and earn a living (this is especially true for those who have no relatives, or who have low-income families and there is no way to help a student);
  • no need to attend all lectures and workshops, the student chooses the time for studying for himself. The fact that working students in tests or sessions will be treated condescendingly is another big question, it all depends on the particular teacher (for some, even a student's apparent pregnancy is not a reason not to fail her in the exam if she does not know the material on the subject);
  • the level of expenses during training is reduced, while the student is quite capable of paying for his studies himself;
  • learning and working, you can put into practice all the knowledge you gain, thus acquiring invaluable experience that cannot be obtained when you are engaged only in theory.

What are the disadvantages of part-time education of pharmacists?

Don't just think about the positives. Distance learning of pharmacists also has disadvantages:

  • a smaller amount of material being studied entails a smaller amount of knowledge, respectively, they will not be as deep and complete as in full-time education. And if the student is not working in his specialty, then the level of knowledge obtained in general can be superficial;
  • not all employers accept a distance learning diploma, as a rule, full-time is preferred educational program;
  • training always takes place on a commercial basis, with the exception of part-time.

Full-time pharmacist by profession distance learning will be preferred for those who already have a diploma of secondary special education.

Where are trained in pharmacists in absentia?

Moscow provides a pharmacist with distance learning for this purpose several higher educational institutions, as well as secondary special ones.

If you want to get skills in this specialty quickly and painlessly, then you can go to a pharmacy college. They take them there after the end of the ninth or eleventh grade, part-time education is possible. After graduating from college, the student receives a certificate in the specialty of a pharmacist and can easily get a job in a pharmacy.

Where do they study to be a pharmacist in absentia yet? Of course, in a higher educational institution, where you can enter both after the eleventh grade and after graduating from a pharmaceutical college. Higher pharmaceutical education provide chemical-pharmaceutical academies or pharmaceutical faculties of medical institutes or university. After graduation, you can get the specialty of a pharmacist, which opens up broader prospects in terms of labor activity.

Studying as a pharmacist by correspondence takes longer than full-time education, but not by much. If we talk about the university, then it will be 5.5 years, instead of five with full-time education.

For admission to part-time form you also need to pass entrance exams (Russian, chemistry, biology, and in some institutes, physics). In the package of documents that are provided in admission committee, must include a certificate of school education, a policy of compulsory health insurance, a certificate from the clinic about the possibility of undergoing training, a passport, photographs, a certificate from the place of work. Entrance tests begin in the month of July, after the end of the school exams. And admission to the faculty takes place in the second half of August, when everyone who wishes has already passed the entrance exams.

Currently correspondence education is not something bad or poor quality. But unlike full-time education, when daily classes, lectures and seminars discipline the student, with distance learning, self-discipline should be well developed. So that when you come home after work, you have enough willpower to sit down at textbooks, and not study them in last night before a test or exam. And this is not for everyone, alas.

Pharmacist(from Latin provisor - caring in advance, preparing, Greek pharmakeutes - preparing medicines.) - this is a pharmacist of the highest qualification, who has the right to independent pharmaceutical work (manufacturing of medicines) and to manage a pharmacy. The profession is suitable for those who are interested in chemistry and biology (see the choice of profession for interest in school subjects).

The title of a pharmacist in terms of qualification corresponds to a doctor.

A pharmacist who graduated from a college or technical school (secondary vocational education) can work assistant pharmacist: manufacture some forms of drugs, dispense drugs and manage a pharmacy in the absence of a specialist with a higher education.

Features of the profession

The most common name for a pharmacist or his assistant is apothecary. However, the pharmacy does not cover the full diversity of this profession.

Pharmacy is a complex of scientific and practical disciplines involved in the development of medicines, the search for natural sources medicinal substances, research of these substances, issues of storage, manufacture, dispensing and marketing.

Pharmacy is based on the data of pharmacology - a biomedical science that studies medicinal substances and their effect on the body.

The pharmacist must have a higher pharmaceutical education, as well as a certificate in one of the following specializations:

  • management and economics of pharmacy;
  • pharmaceutical technology and pharmaceutical chemistry;
  • pharmacognosy (pharmaceutical science of medicines obtained from medicinal plant and animal raw materials).

A graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy who does not have a certificate can engage in pharmaceuticals only under the supervision of qualified pharmacists.
To obtain a certificate, training in postgraduate programs is required. vocational education, internship.

organization wholesale trade medicines, the work of pharmacies is controlled by a pharmacist specializing in management and economics.
He can also use chemical analysis to check the quality of certain medicines, raw materials that have arrived at a pharmacy or pharmacy warehouse. A pharmacist specializing in technology and chemistry can independently manufacture medicines. He is guided by the prescription that the doctor wrote out to the patient: he takes the required amount of medicines and excipients indicated in the prescription, crushes the components or dissolves them in water (or alcohol), mixes, combines with the base (for example, ointment). The finished medicine is packaged in individual doses, draws up documents and a label.

Pharmacognostics organize and analyze medicinal plants and animal raw materials (for example, snake and bee venom, placenta, etc.).

Pharmacy is different from pharmacy. How?

pharmaceuticals is an applied discipline dedicated to the production and technological process. In other words, this is an industrial direction of pharmacy. traditional method pharmacy - manual preparation of medicines (in a pharmacy or laboratory at a medical institution). Pharmaceutics is their mass (industrial) production.

The personal skill of a person in mass production is not as important as in handmade. The industry uses the most unified technologies.

If you are examining the contents of two ampoules of the same medicine, but released at the factory in different months or even years, then you can make sure that they do not differ from each other. The point is the immutability of the technological process.

Workplace

Pharmacists work in pharmacies and research institutes (development of new drugs), in pharmaceutical factories, in procurement departments of factories (collection and processing of medicinal plants), in pharmacy warehouses and in analytical laboratories of regulatory authorities. Also in organizations that wholesale medical preparations.

Possible positions: pharmacist of a pharmacy or pharmacy warehouse, researcher, developer, organizer of procurement of raw materials, quality analyst for drugs and raw materials, licensing and certification specialist, sales manager, marketing specialist for the drug market, etc.

Pharmacist salary

Salary as of 03/28/2019

Russia 30000—70000 ₽

Moscow 43000—95000 ₽

Training for a pharmacist (pharmacist)

Medical University Innovation and Development (MUIR) provides services for professional retraining and advanced training (certification cycle) on the basis of higher or secondary medical education in the direction in the format of part-time education using distance technologies. Graduates of the courses are issued certificates, diplomas, certificates.

Important qualities

When creating drugs, it is necessary good memory, subject-effective thinking, high level concentration of attention, a developed sense of responsibility. And the development of new drugs requires a propensity for research work.

If a pharmacist works in trading floor pharmacy, he has to communicate with customers. It requires patience, kindness, a culture of communication.

Knowledge and skills

The supervisor must know physicochemical characteristics medicines, preparation technology, storage rules. He should be free to navigate in their types and groups, composition, rules of use, dosage. Good understanding of raw materials.

Knowledge of Latin is required.

Working in the pharmaceutical industry requires knowledge of modern pharmaceutical equipment, the principles of operation of "clean zones", global GMP standards and the basics of biotechnological production.

To organize a pharmacy business, production, wholesale trade in medicines, it is not necessary to know all the intricacies technological process, but it is absolutely necessary to know the market conditions for medical products, have knowledge of marketing, understand the legal laws governing the trade and production of drugs, and be able to draw up contracts and agreements. When working with foreign partners, knowledge is required foreign language.