What are the benefits of a practicing pharmacist certificate and what are the future development prospects?

1. Practicing pharmacists can be assessed for professional titles

Chapter 6 of the new version of the "Regulations on the Professional Qualification System for Practicing Pharmacists": "Professional and technical personnel who obtain the professional qualifications for practicing pharmacists can be deemed to have the qualifications to be competent pharmacists Or the title of supervisor of traditional Chinese medicine, and can be used as a condition for applying for a higher-level professional title. The unit will select the best according to the work needs. ”

2. The salary of practicing pharmacists is high

Open a recruitment website to search. "Practice Pharmacist" can visually show the salary level of practicing pharmacists. Practicing pharmacists in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou generally earn more than 6k, and those with experience can even reach 10k.

The basic salary of an average drugstore salesperson is usually only one or two thousand, and plus the commission from selling medicines, it may only be more than three thousand. In contrast, the salary level of licensed pharmacists is much higher than that of their peers.

3. Pharmacists have become the gatekeepers of prescription review work

On July 10, 2018, the official website of the National Health and Medical Commission issued the "Notice on Issuance of Prescription Review Standards for Medical Institutions", clarifying It is proposed that pharmacists should review each content of the prescription one by one.

4. Pharmacists can consult and prescribe prescriptions

A while ago, a document from Guangdong Province attracted the attention of many people in the medical circle. The Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association issued a notice on the "Pharmaceutical Outpatient Trial Standards", which clearly stipulates that pharmacy outpatient clinics are allowed to be opened if conditions are met and recommends that pharmacists in the pharmaceutical outpatient clinics be granted partial prescribing authority.

5. Industry demand is huge

The "13th Five-Year Plan" proposes that the national drug safety plan requires that by 2020, the number of practicing pharmacists per 10,000 people will exceed 4. According to the 13th National Drug Safety Plan in Mainland China, Based on a population of 90.08 million (data at the end of 2017), the country needs 556,032 licensed pharmacists, which means that there is still a gap of 1,016.75 million licensed pharmacists required by the national policy! Of course, this is only a gap, and the licensed pharmacist industry is still growing. While the construction is improving, the gap is not only 100,000!

6. Broad employment prospects

The country has strict industry regulations on the deployment of practicing pharmacists in various fields of the pharmaceutical industry.

Any unit engaged in the production, operation and use of drugs; retail pharmacies that implement drug classification management and are qualified to sell prescription drugs and Class A non-prescription drugs; large and medium-sized drug retail enterprises that have passed GSP certification; medical institutions at or above the county level Both pharmacies and preparation rooms must be staffed by licensed pharmacists.

The person in charge of the quality management work of a cross-regional chain pharmaceutical retail chain enterprise; the person in charge of the quality management organization of a pharmaceutical wholesale enterprise that has passed GSP certification; the person in charge of the quality management organization of a pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprise that has passed GMP certification are all Must be a licensed pharmacist.