The career paths for pharmacy majors are research and development department, production department, marketing department,
What is pharmacy?
Pharmacy is a specialty within the broader category of the medical discipline of Chinese medicine, which focuses on the study of learning related to drugs. Specifically, from the beginning of the drug research, development, production, processing, and the final distribution of the use of all processes as long as it is related to the "drug", all belong to the scope of the study of pharmacy. People often confuse pharmacy and pharmaceutical engineering, pharmacy focuses on the basic research of the drug itself; pharmaceutical engineering focus on engineering, focusing on the manufacture of qualified drugs.
Note: The pharmacy profession in the professional discipline belongs to the medical class of pharmacy, in which the pharmacy class **** 10 majors, the pharmacy profession in the pharmacy class ranked 1st, ranked 2nd in the whole medical class. In the pharmacy category, the employment prospects are better in the following specialties: pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine, applied pharmacy, pharmaceutical preparation, pharmacy management, traditional Chinese medicine resources and development, Tibetan pharmacy, marine pharmacy, Mongolian pharmacy and so on.
Employment direction of pharmacy majors:
1) R & D Department
Ten years of technology into a high level of work, want to go down this road, the barrel, education and professionalism is more important. If you do it for ten or eight years, the salary is absolutely considerable. According to the 2010 graduate salary analysis, the R & D route to enter the monthly salary is generally between 5-10K, do a three years five years mixed to the discipline director, the annual salary of up to 20-30 million. The highest-paying private enterprise R&D director, with an annual salary of 2 million RMB, is currently heard.
Doing research and development in the company and the university to do research is typical of the similarity of God is not like, the company's R & amp; D department and the university to do research is basically two different things. The former pay attention to reproducibility, standardization, for the market service, pay attention to teamwork; the latter pay attention to breakthrough, innovation, for the paper service, pay attention to personal hero. So the current industry and academia despise each other, the company thinks that the university researchers are blind nonsense, bragging, detached from reality. University people think that the company engaged in research people have no technical content, the subject is simple, the lower nine streams. The people of the world are not the same as the people of the world.
Domestic companies are paying more attention to research and development, and foreign pharmaceutical companies have set up R&D departments in China, so there are many opportunities to consider.
Phytochemistry ------ of extracting and separating things, it is said that the separation of 100 is called a primer, and the separation of 1,000 is called a small success. Chemical stagnation, proprietary Chinese medicine shrinking today, natural medicine is considered a major growth point. According to the statistic of Clove Garden, the starting salary of plant chemical category ranges from 5K-8K. Educational requirements: master's degree, PhD.
Synthesis ----- is the synthesis. It's more esoteric (I'm in pharmacology haha), and the rumors are more toxic, but the pay is pretty good, and finding a job is the most sought-after, and those who engage in synthesis are snapped up before they graduate. Looking for a job is goddamned good? Starting salary ranges from 6K-10K. Educational requirements: master's degree, PhD.
Preparation ----- research preparation, the early years are quite popular, in recent years the industry to fight 吅 pressure degree increased, the market has declined, but is still very powerful professional. The difficulty of the examination ranked NO1. Work is very good to find, only the company begged you to go to the share, dump or not dump him, look at the fate. The starting salary is 6K-10K. Educational requirements: master's degree, doctorate.
Analysis ----- research quality standards. It's quite an accomplishment to research and then write it into the pharmacopoeia. Entry level 5K-7K Educational requirements: master's degree, PhD.
Pharmacology ----- is responsible for compound efficacy screening, pharmacokinetic studies of formulations, major efficacy and general pharmacology, toxicity testing, etc., mainly dealing with small animals. The working environment is rather dirty (really dirty). Technical content is actually limited, the above things have their own technical challenges to overcome, pharmacology just play an objective evaluation role, process and project SFDA has long been stipulated. Coupled with the domestic counterfeiting trend, pharmacology people did not play its due role. And pharmacology threshold is low, the work content is basic, many biological, clinical undergraduate master's degree stage also read pharmacology, resulting in an extremely large number of students, employment is difficult. Pharmacodynamic experiments of major companies are generally contracted to universities to do. Therefore, there are few jobs. Academic requirements are PhD. Starting salary is around 5K-10K. Pharmacology master's and doctoral stages of the basic issues of practical application is not very relevant, so it is very difficult to find a job as a doctor of pharmacology, especially undergraduate biology, clinical origin of the people are not familiar with the knowledge of pharmacy, graduated from the company want to do pharmacology is even more difficult. It is recommended that students who want to enroll in graduate school for pharmacology should be careful.
The medical department ---- organizes and conducts clinical trials, which are now being outsourced to clinical trial companies. The CRA (Clinical Research Associate) is usually an ombudsman-project manager-medical manager-medical director. Entry level is about 3K, five years of growth can usually reach 120,000 annual salary, Clove Park has opened to 500,000 to hire medical director. They need to travel a lot, and it's hard work. Senior positions are usually held by people with a clinical background. If you want to join the CRA industry, you can first learn the clinical trial reporting information, and then learn the ICH and SOP, so that you will be in a more favorable position when you are looking for a job. Suitable education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in medicine or pharmacy.
Registration Submission ----- is a position that organizes and submits all kinds of pharmacy, preclinical and clinical trial information to the FDA. As simple as it sounds, it is actually a very complex position. Practitioners should not only be proficient in all disciplines of pharmacy, medicine, laws and regulations, but also have strong writing skills and communication skills, a new drug declaration needs to provide about 30 research materials, any one of the information has a problem to quickly find out and coordinate the solution. To be proficient in all kinds of knowledge and to be fluent, it is really something remarkable. Registrars are divided into domestic registration, international registration, device registration and various sub-posts, and it is enough to do fine work in any field to make a living. Entry salary is generally 3-5K, 5 years after the development period, the salary can reach 10-20 million, there have been pharmaceutical companies with an annual salary of 600,000 to recruit the registration affairs manager. The company's education: bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctoral degree.
2) Production
Production is a relatively low value-added segment, because most of the work is a prescribed rules and regulations, go in and do it. The salary is usually not high. But the mixing into a senior position is still relatively substantial. Pharmaceutical talent network recruiting production director, the price of the high price has been 300,000 annual salary.
Processor ------ is responsible for adjusting the production process to ensure optimal production efficiency. It is a position to solve practical problems. Busy time is very busy, idle time is very idle, starting salary of 3-6K, suitable for education: bachelor's degree, master's degree in pharmacy.
Workshop supervisor ---- arranges workshop production, manages people and things. Salary varies, around 3-6K. Suitable for education: Bachelor's degree
Quality inspector ----- for assaying products. The work content is relatively monotonous, according to the pharmacopoeia operation can be, the salary is relatively poor, most of the less than 2K. suitable for education: college, undergraduate.
3) Marketing
The R&D and production of things, after all, must be sold in order to be able to eat. The marketing department is usually divided into a marketing department and a sales department. The former is responsible for market planning, marketing activities, academic conferences and market research, while the latter is responsible for selling drugs to hospitals. According to unreliable data, the annual salary of marketing director and sales director of listed companies is around 1-2 million RMB. The job types include product specialist, product manager, marketing specialist, pharmaceutical representative, pharmaceutical investment.
Product Manager ------ Since P&G introduced the position of product manager in 1928, the product manager system has achieved wide success in various industries. Product manager head "manager" title, but not the management of people, but the product of the big manager, product manager from research and development to production to market planning to sales implementation should be involved, different companies have different division of labor. Overall, the product manager belongs to one of the company's core positions, can be transformed from R & D, production, sales and any other positions. It is the bridge between R & D and the market, so it is necessary to understand both technology and marketing, not only can pile up in the literature all day long to read, but also to be able to go around socializing and organizing activities. Work includes communicating R&D goals, designing product promotional materials, and planning marketing activities. Starting salary is 8K-10K, and after 5 years of development, you can earn 15-30K a year. Rumor has it that some time ago Nanjing Zhengda Tianqing offered 250,000 yuan to recruit product managers in the field of tumor medicine, and the whole of Shanghai looked for three months without finding those who wanted to jump ship. The company's products and services are also available in a wide range of languages.
Product specialist ------ main product knowledge, application of the position. The work is mainly for training, section meeting, compiling product information and academic data collection and organization. Located in the front line position of corporate and hospital contact. Starting salary 5K-1 million. Suitable for education: master's degree.
Marketing Specialist ----- focuses on marketing activities, strategic planning and academic meetings. Carry out the command and engine of the marketing work. Marketing department work is not colorful, but rather a very dull position. Every day you have to face a lot of massive data and analyze the trend from it, and if you do it for a long time, you will be a little bit of a nerd. Starting salary 3-5K. Suitable education: bachelor, master or MBA.
Pharmaceutical representative ----- is not a strange position, with the highest income expectation and the greatest pressure. The competition is exceptionally fierce and the elimination is very cruel. Foreign pharmaceutical representatives usually reach 100,000-150,000 annual salary in the first year of employment, and domestic companies usually get 50,000 a year. Pharmaceutical sales, although the golden period has passed, but in general, the salary in the community in the middle position. With the previous period of the bull market in the fund manager and Mr. Sales is certainly not comparable, but compared to the traditional industries such as FMCG and machinery, the salary is still good. Will medical representatives die out? Of course not. Any business needs salespeople to sell things. Hong Kong and the United States sell medicines the same way, except that they do not blatantly give kickbacks, except that their medical costs are paid by the government and insurance companies. The sales model is exactly the same. Suitable education: Bachelor's degree.
Pharmaceutical Merchants ----- increasingly marginalized profession. The essence of the pharmaceutical industry is the channel sales staff, responsible for selling the varieties on hand to the clinical company, and then by the clinical medical representatives to sell the varieties into the hospital. The focus of the work is constantly looking for people to do their own varieties, the contact surface is much wider than the pharmaceutical representatives, relatively speaking, the pressure is also less than the pharmaceutical agent. Salary gap is very big, in and out of the job salary may be 2K less than, practitioners 5-10 years many can also get 200,000 annual salary. But I personally think that the golden period of investment has passed, with the further integration of the pharmaceutical industry, the survival space of investment personnel may be further compressed. Suitable for education: college, undergraduate.
4) Other related jobs
First of all, it has to be said that although these jobs are not the mainstream of the pharmaceutical industry, they are much better than the mainstream. They are: colleges and universities, the Drug Administration, the Drug Administration, pharmaceutical companies, hospital pharmacy. Into these units more or less point relationship, naked in really good luck. To the party working than to the company working much stronger, into the Drug Administration, even if to get a director when when, than outside to do the boss of the strong, not to mention working with the comparison. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to the public, and the company's goal is to provide the best possible service to the public.
These years, the country into the people's retreat, bureaucratic capital and power rent-seeking unprecedented expansion of the Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies are making a lot of money, have the opportunity to go, really do not let go.
Hospital pharmacy in fact good? It's a matter of hospitals, and the third-class hospitals are still fine. In the past few years, clinical pharmacists in large hospitals gradually emerged, is also a good entry point, the development is unlimited.