Hi! There is a lot of scope in B. pharmacy. There is a wide variety of career options after graduation. s, B. Pharmacy degree holders get employed in the private or government sector as pharmacists, drug inspectors, medical underwriters or even open a drugstore. The projection is that the pharmacy industry will reach $55 billion at a CAGR of 22.4% by the end of 2020, which makes it an appealing industry, So, if you are interested in it, go for it!

All the best!

Dear Aspirant

You can seek a career in marketing, pharma industry, clinical research, Higher education like M. pharm / MBA or M.s, academics, pharmacist and entrepreneur.

Pharmaceutical industry :

• Research and development

R and D serve as a major pharma industry department and gives better career.

• Production :

Pharmacy graduate can work as a production person, chemist, Production Manager, officer, executive, manager, Director, President, Vice-president etc. involved in the production of dosage form and policies, research in different areas. Pharmacy professionals also have opportunities in production of ayurvedic preparations and veterinary products as well as bulk drugs and cosmetics.

• Quaity assurance / Quality control

Quality and purity of drugs /dosage forms are required for human use. Identification and characterization of these are required in production, storage and during the handling of finished product. Quality control and quality assurance have assumed enormous importance in view of current GMP regulations.

• Regulatory affairs

In the current scenario pharmacy graduates and postgraduates are in high demand for patent filing and global expansion of drug manufacturing activities. The job opportunities for Pharmacy graduates are excellent in the regulatory body governing and implementing the rules and regulations for the pharmaceutical industry.

Marketing

The Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing is a highly technical field and offers excellent opportunities for the pharmacy graduates. The companies prefer pharmacy graduates for this job, as they have a good knowledge about the drug molecules, their therapeutic effects and the drug – drug interactions. pharmacist can acquire following position in marketing department.

• Product Management

• Medical Representative

• Area Manager

Higher education

• M. Pharm

It’s a two year full time post-graduate course. M. pharm offers specialization in various streams like Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical analysis, Quality assurance, Pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacognosy, clinical pharmacy, industrial pharmacy and many more.

• MBA in Pharmaceutical Management

2-Years, Full Time or 3 year, part time course available in various management colleges in India. MBA (Pharma Management) is industry-specific program prepares Pharmaceutical Executives with the knowledge and skills required to lead the industry in the 21st century.

Clinical Research

• BA/BE studies (Bioavailability and Bioequivalence)

BA/BE studies involves compaision of the test product with the product which is already in market(Reference). The PK parameters included Cmax, AUC, Tmax, elimination rate constant. B. pharm graduate have sound knowlage about biopharmaceutics and its related terms hence he/ she fit with such BA/ BE studies.

• Clinical trial

The human testing phase is called the clinical trial. A pharmacist can work as clinical research associate or clinical pharmacist and can rise to the position of project manager. The clinical research associate plays an important role of monitoring and overseeing the conducts of clinical trials, which are conducted on healthy human volunteers. They have to see that the trials meet the international guidelines and the national regulatory requirements.

• Pharmacovigilance (PV) and Clinical data management (CDM)

PV relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. Now a days, major IT sector companies involves in field of PV and CDM like TCS, cognizant, Wipro etc.

• Medical writer / coder

Medical writing involves communicating clinical and scientific data and provides information in various types of formats, its constmised scientific data according to the requirement.

Miscellaneous

• Entrepreneur

• community Pharmacist

• chemist and pharmacist

• Teaching at D. pharmacy colleges

Hope this will help

All the best

Hello,

Below I have shared some career opportunities after b.pharmacy:

• Chemical/Drug Technician
• Drug Therapist
• Hospital Drug Coordinator
• Bio-Technology Industries
• Drug Inspector
• Health Inspector
• Making Prescription to Patients
• Pharmacist
• Research Officer
• Pathological Lab
• Scientist
• Research & Development

Good Luck