Pharmacy is a new emerging Profession, preparing its graduates for the future challenges of the Drug Specialty. Drugs today have a immense power to cure and to improve the quality of life. But, at the same time Drugs also may do serious damages if not taken correctly. This is where the role of the pharmacist is most important. Pharmacists who know their patients and have their medication profiles on file are aware of possible harmful drug interactions or allergies to certain drugs. The pharmacist also are able to discuss possible side effects in addition to what foods, drinks or activities that should be avoided while on a medication; what to do if the patient miss a dose; and a wide range of other helpful information.

The pharmacist is a key health care professional in helping people achieve the best therapeutic outcomes. The ailing community should choose a pharmacist they trust and build a partnership for their good health.

Briefly, Pharmacists play an essential role in optimizing therapeutic outcomes of medication and improving patient health.

Pharmaceutical Industry:
An important career option in the pharmacy is represented by the pharmaceutical industry. Here, pharmacists are employed in manufacturing, product development, research, quality control, quality assurance, marketing, sales and administration.

Hospital and other Institutional Settings:
The expansion of health care needs the society to put the hospital pharmacists in a position  to have direct involvement in the patient care beside it established roles of Drug purchases, control, supply and distribution of drugs, management functions, personnel administration, system development and planning. Hospital pharmacist continues to become more involved in providing patient-oriented services; the demand for practitioners in this area of pharmacy continue to grow.

Managed care Pharmacy:
Managed care pharmacy services are extended heath delivery system services that provide the pharmaceutical care at the primary/or preventive level. Increasingly, pharmacists are employed in various capacities within managed care organization .Managed care is a system designed to optimize patient care through greater coordination of medical and pharmaceutical services.

Community/Retail Pharmacy:
This area involves the practice of pharmacy in community settings or retail outlets. Pharmacists, in the community settings, are actively involved in educating patients, maintaining and monitoring drug records and providing information resource of highest caliber. This is very rapidly growing area of pharmacy profession in which the pharmacists are deployed at store levels leading to the management positions in chain drug pharmacies or themselves become the owner of their own pharmacies.

Other fields in Pharmacy:
Pharmacists use their basic educational background in a host of federal, state and professional positions. At the federal or provincial level, pharmacist hold post like drug inspectors, drug controllers, pharmacist/chief pharmacists at drug testing laboratories and also as Commissioned officers in Pakistan Armed Forces. Pharmacists with interest and special talents in organizational work also guide several national professional associations. There are pharmacist in advertising, packaging, technical writing, magazine editing and science reporting. There are pharmacists with legal training who are serving as patent lawyers or as experts in pharmaceutical law.

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