Hi all,
It seems like we have much more differentiation than we
anticipated between countries.
To answer david from Sao Paulo: in some countries the a
pharmacist is someone who completed a pharmaceutical
education at university, and additionally did an exam for a
pharmacist license. So basically any pharmacist is then a
pharmaceutical scientist (having a masters, or equivalent in
pharmacy). But not every pharmaceutical scientist is a pharmacist,
because they still need to acquire a license (or pharmacist
diplome).
Now, whether universities prepare their students as a
pharmaceutical scientist is another story, and depends very much
on the quality and length of the university education. In some
countries the schools of pharmacy have their curriculum totally
oriented towards 'producing' pharmacists. In other countries there
might be a differentiation in the university education, one leading to
a pharmaceutical scientist and the other towards being a
pharmacist, depending on the topics chosen during the curriculum.
Lastly, the length of the education does not tell you very much
about the qualification. This depends also on the entry level, with
which the students enter university. In some countries students get
into university at 16, after an average secondary school system, in
other they enter when they are 19 or 20 after having gone through
an additional college.
Foppe
> Hi
>
> What is difference between pharmacist and pharmaceutical scientist? In
> my country, precisally in my State, we have near 10 schools of
> pharmacy, 3 is public and other schools are private. All public
> pharmacy school have a dean that is graduate in pharmaceutical Science
> and had an Ph.D. in any area and have successfully completed their
> "livre-docência" in pharmacy. And so, after become an full professor,
> he is elegible to become a dean in any public pharmacy School.
>
> David I Kasahara, B.S.Pharm.
> MSc Student at School of Medicine - University of Sao Paulo
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Billy Futter <B.Futter@ru.ac.za>
> Para: PharmCare <PharmCare@pharmweb1.man.ac.uk>
> Data: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:13 AM
> Assunto: Re: School of Pharmacy's Deanship
>
>
> >Hi Dzul
> >We have 9 universities offering partial of complete training for
> >entry level pharmacist courses, nearly all of whom have a background
> >in pharmaceutics. A few have changed emphasis towards pharmacy
> >practice, or drug policy. With the emphasis in the is moving away
> >manufacturing towards more clinical competencies, it is interesting
> >to speculate on the role played by the key discipline of the head in
> >resisting or facilitating this change..
> >
> >It is also interesting to consider the role that a non-pharmacist
> >might play in facilitating or resisting this change. Would it be
> >fair to say that if the head was from the pure sciences, that there
> >would be a greater propensity to hang onto traditional competencies?
> >(PS I am a social scientist so I am more interested in putting the
> >care into pharmaceutical care than the pharmaceuticals!)
> >
> >Cheers
> >Billy
> >
> >Billy Futter
> >Associate Professor
> >Faculty of Pharmacy
> >Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
> >email B.Futter@ru.ac.za
> >phone 046 603 8494
> >fax 046 636 1205
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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