please guide me... am attending kcet ..and i want to go for PHARM D course.. so please tell me that it is good or not.. or the ups and downs of that course.. yeah i know its for 6years but still i want to get to know about it much more..i mean fees and does that job gives you more opportunities ??

Hello aspirant

PHARM D course is a professional degree in Pharmacy stream. Duration is 6 years in total inclusive of 5 years of learning and one year if internship for practical learning. It is the only Doctoral degree that can be pursued right after passing 10+2 qualifying exam. B pharm graduates can also pursue D pharm to lateral entry course.

For 6 years pharm D course you should have completed 10+2 level Education by any state or National board. Physics Chemistry are compulsory subjects with maths or biology. You must have completed 17 years. Candidate holding diploma in pharmacy are also eligible. You have to appear for entrance test like Bharati Vidyapeeth common Entrance test, NIMS entrance test, MU OET or Maharashtra common Entrance Test.

Job carrier opportunities - you can do research work and development. Quality assurance and improvement, technical advancements in healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors

Below are some of top job profiles  for  pharm D.

job                                           salary

Research scientist                     rs 6 lakh and above

regular affairs manager           9.60 lakh and above.

quality assurance manager     10 lakh and above

medical writer                              3 lakh and above

clinical pharmacist                       3.40 lakh and above

pharmacist                          2.30 lakh +

pharmacy manager            4.90 lakh+

pharmacy technician            3 lakh +

Pharm D degree holders get opportunities in R & D , technical and marketing department of pharmaceutical companies.

few College offering pharm D course are listed below

•Shri ram Chandra Institute , chennai

fees 7.50 lakh

•Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, kochi

fees 15.37 lakh

parul University, Vadodara

fees 6 lakh

NIMS UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR

FEES 7.50 lakh

IUL, Lucknow

fees seven lakh

as you have asked ups and downs , I should mention disadvantages of the course.

while pharmacists are a highly respected component of our health care system , the job does not come without some disadvantages .

Being a pharmacist you require to know about a wide range of medicines and to be able to dispense them properly. Making an error in dosage can have harmful and even fatal results. The potential stress associated with the need to be accurate 100% of the time is just one of the disadvantages of the profession.

You require years of training . It require at least two or three years of  undergraduate studies with an emphasis in anotomy , biology and chemistry. Before a pharmacist can use his/ her Pharma D degree in work , she must take and pass two pharmacist licensing tests. First is multistate Pharmacy jurisprudence examination and second is North American License Examination. This multiple choice exam focuses on the candidates knowledge of Pharmacy.