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A career as a specialist HIV pharmacist

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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HIV drug therapy is a fast-moving area. Haley Hill looks at how the role of an HIV specialist pharmacist has developed and discusses important issues and challenges unique to this area of pharmacy

Haley Hill was previously staff editor at Hospital Pharmacist

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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You have to be registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to practise as a pharmacist, but what else does the Society do? Andrew Haynes describes its functions

Andrew Haynes is deputy editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal

A career as a specialist radiopharmacist

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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Radiopharmacists provide a clinical and technical pharmacy service within nuclear medicine. Zoe Gross outlines the work involved and the career path followed by some of the pharmacists working in this field

Zoë Gross is a freelance pharmaceutical journalist

Useful resources and information

What's what in pharmacy

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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Overwhelmed by the many organisations and associations in the world of pharmacy? Confused by the many acronyms and abbreviations? Here's a quick guide to a few of the major groups and associations you may come across in your career

AIMp

The Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies represents multiples that are not part of the Company Chemists’ Association

CCA

The Company Chemists’ Association is the recognised body that represents UK pharmacy multiples

CPP

A career in critical care

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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Critical care provides a career pathway for pharmacists, with a standard set of skills and competencies and a structured training programme for basic grade to consultant pharmacists in this specialty. Haley Hill discusses the role of a pharmacist dedicated to the care of seriously ill patients

Haley Hill was previously staff editor at Hospital Pharmacist

Critical care concerns the complete process of caring for the critically ill patient. The term also encompasses the needs of those at risk of critical illness and those who are recovering or have recovered from such illnesses.

Hospital know-how

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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Wasim Baqir, David Campbell, Alan Worsley and Rachel Etherington discuss a pilot programme that was set up for undergraduate students to experience hospital pharmacy

Wasim Baqir is a senior clinical pharmacist and chairman of the pharmacy audit and research group at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, North Shields

David Campbell is chief pharmacist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

Getting a place at the Games

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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Love sport? Could you imagine yourself working at international competitions such as the Olympic and Commonwealth Games? Mark Stuart, Bill Horsfall and Mel Blachford describe how pharmacy services were organised during the 2006 Commonwealth Games that took place in Melbourne, Australia

Mark Stuart is deputy editor of MIMS Australia and has worked as a pharmacist and with doping control at previous Olympic and Commonwealth games

How does one become a qualified person?

Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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Seen or heard the term 'QP' or 'qualified person' and wondered what it meant? Interested in the career opportunities provided by the pharmaceutical industry? Malcolm E. Brown outlines what QPs do and how to become one, and Sadia Khan follows with a more detailed look at the QP registration process

Malcolm Brown is a pharmaceutical consultant (QP), a locum pharmacist and a sociologist from Beccles, Suffolk

Sadia Khan is the Qualified Person officer at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Have you considered a career as an education and training pharmacist?

Fri, 01/12/2006 - 00:00 — Site Administrator
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Few junior pharmacists aspire to specialise in education and training, but a changing learning environment means that there is a growing need for practitioners in this field. This article describes the work of education and training pharmacists, along with some of the skills needed

Barry Jubraj, Kenye Karemo, Wendy Pullinger and Aamer Safdar are all education and training pharmacists at teaching hospitals in London.



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A career as ... a neonatal pharmacist

Sat, 30/09/2006 - 23:00 — Site Administrator
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More premature babies, born at increasingly low gestational ages, are surviving, and so neonatal pharmacy is a rapidly growing area of practice. This article describes the role of a neonatal pharmacist

Maiya Ahmed is neonatal pharmacist at St Mary’s Hospital, London

Babies

Babies born at low gestational ages may need to spend their first few weeks of life in an incubator

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