Careers for Pharmacists in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Perspective on Medical Affairs

Pharmaceutical industry represents a potential career path for pharmacists. Industry positions currently available to pharmacists, particularly those for individuals with advanced degrees, are expanding. This article will focus on opportunities for career-oriented pharmacists within a medical department with particular reference to a pharmaceutical company that markets nonprescription drug products. Although the potential responsibilities with this area may vary between companies, this article will focus on the areas of drug information, adverse drug experience reporting, postmarketing surveillance, and medical writing. These topics have been selected because they represent some of the responsibilities of pharmacists within the Medical Affairs Department at McNeil Consumer Products Company, a member of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies. In addition to job-related responsibilities, the suitability of a pharmacy education along with potential rewards and frustrations of working within the pharmaceutical industry are also presented.

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Updated List of Light-Sensitive Oral Medications

Hospital Pharmacy ◽

10.1177/0018578719844699 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 55 (6) ◽

pp. 349-365

Author(s):

Scott Perkins ◽

Adam Evans ◽

Allison King

Keyword(s):

Dosage Form ◽

Drug Information ◽

Dosage Forms ◽

Drug Products ◽

Solid Dosage ◽

Oral Medications ◽

Information Center ◽

Oral Liquid ◽

Liquid Products ◽

Professional Resources

The Campbell University Drug Information Center supports health professionals by providing responses to drug-related inquiries. An inquiry was received by the Drug Information Center for a comprehensive list of oral solutions which should be protected from light. In investigating this request for information, a list of light-sensitive oral prescription drug products published in Hospital Pharmacy in 2009 was identified. This discovery highlighted the need for both an updated list and one which distinguished oral solid products and oral liquid products. The purpose of this project was to update the previously published list and to distinguish between oral solid and liquid dosage forms. The process of updating this list entailed several professional resources. A list of all oral products was obtained and then sorted to clearly identify which products were available in oral solid dosage form only, oral liquid dosage form only, and both dosage forms. Once delineated, the product labels for each medication were scoured for language indicating the product is light sensitive.

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On Innovative Activity in Pharmaceutical Industry

Vestnik NSUEM ◽

10.34020/2073-6495-2021-2-168-174 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 168-174

Author(s):

M. I. Berkovich ◽

A. Yu. Volin

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trials ◽

Pharmaceutical Industry ◽

Clustering Algorithm ◽

Innovative Activity ◽

Innovation Activity ◽

Drug Products ◽

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

The article provides with different approaches to the assessment of pharmaceutical manufacturers’ innovation activity. The peculiarities of pharmaceutical industry product that can be characterized as innovative are taken into consideration. Special attention has been given to the pharmaceutical industry peculiarities originating from differentiation of original drug products and generics in the structure of pharmaceutical industry production. Based on these findings the classification of Russian pharmaceutical manufacturers in accordance with their innovation activity extent evaluated by their activity in clinical trials conducting was developed. The classification is based upon k-means clustering algorithm with 5 clusters specified.The small amount of manufacturers involved in clinical trials conducting and some optimistic insights about the original products share were concluded hereafter.

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