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Pharmacists??
How much biology and chemistry do you use in your daily routine as a pharmacist? I know that you need a lot while you’re in pharmacy school, but how much do you really need after you graduate?
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Very little to none. In the retail setting everything is commercially prepared, pre-packaged, etc. In 35 years, I have never been asked a chemistry question, how to synthesize a product or name a structure. These are all heavily studied in pharmacy school. It is like most other professions: there is book knowledge and the “real” knowledge garnered from experience after graduation.
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A lot. You need the physiology aspect in biology to know how the body works and how the body may react. The chemistry aspect to know how the body will react and know the chemical compounds of the drugs you’re handing out. There are also different fields in pharmacology as you can teach, research, or work in the field. I can assume that each field requires a different level of bio or chem, but it is mandatory to have a strong background in these two science subjects for pharmacology.
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My cousin is a pharmacist and I have had a lot of interactions w/ pharmacists in residency. If you plan to work in the hospital setting, then you will be using a lot of pharmokinetics/dynamics on a daily basis. As the patient changes, ie- kidney and liver functions mainly, you will likely be consulted by physicians in the management of meds and how to maintain therapeutic levels in the blood.
My cousin is a regular pharmacist in the local setting, and she says that it is still important, but she uses her basic sciences on a much less frequent basis.
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Texjeff has been doing this so long, that the chemistry that he uses EVERY day has become second nature to him. It’s kind of like algebra. I’d bet neither texjeff nor myself set up algebraic problems every day, but we are constantly doing it in our heads without thinking about it. If asked, we’d say we rarely use it. But in fact, we are doing it all the time. Same thing with chemistry, especially PChem.
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