What are the employment directions for pharmacy majors?

The employment directions of the pharmacy major include the R&D department, the production department, and the marketing department.

What is pharmacy?

Pharmacy is a major category of traditional Chinese medicine in the medical discipline. A major that mainly studies medicine-related knowledge. Specifically, from the initial drug research and development, to production, processing, and final circulation and use, all processes that are related to "drugs" fall within the scope of pharmaceutical research. People often confuse pharmacy and pharmaceutical engineering. Pharmacy mainly focuses on the basic research of the drugs themselves; pharmaceutical engineering focuses on engineering, focusing on manufacturing and producing qualified drugs.

Note: The pharmacy major belongs to the pharmacy category in the medical category among professional disciplines. Among them, there are ***10 majors in the pharmacy category. The pharmacy major ranks first among the pharmacy majors and among the entire medical categories. Ranked 2nd. Among pharmacy majors, majors with better employment prospects include: pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine, applied pharmacy, pharmaceutical preparations, pharmaceutical management, traditional Chinese medicine resources and development, Tibetan medicine, marine medicine, Mongolian medicine, etc.

Employment directions for pharmacy majors:

1) Department of R&D

After ten years of technical skills, I became a senior engineer. For those who want to take this path, comparison of academic qualifications and majors important. After working for ten or eight years, the salary is definitely considerable. According to the salary analysis of graduate students in 2010, the monthly salary for entry into the R&D route is generally between 5-10K, and if you work as a subject director for three to five years, the annual salary can reach 200,000-300,000. At present, I heard that the R&D director of a private enterprise with the highest salary has an annual salary of 2 million RMB. People who engage in R&D have a high status in the unit, and their bosses should also respect them.

Doing R&D in a company is typically similar to doing research in a university. The R&D department of a company and the research done in a university are basically two different things. The former pays attention to reproducibility and standardization, serves the market, and emphasizes teamwork; the latter pays attention to breakthroughs and innovations, serves the paper, and pays attention to personal heroes. Therefore, industry and academia currently despise each other. People in companies think that those doing research in universities are fooling around, boasting, and being divorced from reality. People at universities think that people doing research in companies have no technical content, the topics are simple, and they are low-class. This is probably the case with literati.

Domestic companies are paying more and more attention to research and development, and foreign pharmaceutical companies have also set up R&D departments in China. There are many opportunities and are worth considering.

Phytochemistry------For those who extract and separate things, it is said that separation of 100 is called entry, and separation of 1,000 is considered a small achievement. Today, when chemical drugs have stagnated and Chinese patent medicines have shrunk, natural medicines are considered a major growth point. According to Dingxiangyuan statistics, the starting salary for phytochemical workers ranges from 5K to 8K. Educational requirements: Master, PhD.

Synthesis----- means synthesis. It's quite esoteric (I'm a pharmacologist), and the rumors are quite poisonous, but the salary is pretty good, and jobs are the most sought-after. Synthetic people are sold out before they graduate. How easy is it to find a job? The starting salary ranges from 6K to 10,000. Educational requirements: Master, PhD.

Preparations ----- Those who study preparations were very popular in the early years. In recent years, the pressure on the industry has increased. Although the market has declined, it is still a very powerful profession. The postgraduate entrance examination is ranked NO.1 in terms of difficulty. Jobs are very easy to find, and you can only go there if the company asks you to do so. Whether you can dump him or not depends on fate. Starting salary is 6K-10,000. Educational requirements: Master, PhD.

Analysis-----research quality standards. Once the research is completed, it can be written into the pharmacopoeia, which is quite a sense of accomplishment. Educational requirements for joining 5K-7K: master's degree, doctorate.

Pharmacology----- Responsible for the screening of compound efficacy, pharmacokinetic research of preparations, main efficacy and general pharmacology, toxicity tests, etc., mainly dealing with small animals. The working environment is quite dirty (really dirty). The technical content is actually limited, and each of the above things has its own technical problems to be solved. Pharmacology only plays an objective evaluation role, and the processes and projects have already been stipulated by SFDA. Coupled with the widespread fraud in the country, pharmacologists have not played their due role. In addition, the threshold for pharmacology is low and the work content is relatively basic. Many biology and clinical undergraduates also study pharmacology at the master's and doctoral level, resulting in an extremely large number of students and difficult employment.

Major companies generally outsource drug efficacy experiments to universities. Therefore, there are few jobs. The academic requirement is a Ph.D. Starting salary is around 5K-10,000. The basic topics at the master's and doctoral level in pharmacology have little relevance to practical applications. Therefore, it is very difficult for a doctor of pharmacology to find a job. This is especially true for those with undergraduate degrees in biology or clinical background who are not familiar with pharmaceutical knowledge. It is even more difficult for those who want to work in pharmacology in companies after graduation. More difficult. It is recommended that students who want to apply for graduate school to take the pharmacology exam be cautious.

The medical department, that is, organizing and conducting clinical trials, now has a tendency to be outsourced to clinical trial companies. Joined by a CRA (Clinical Inspector), the development path is usually Inspector-Project Manager-Medical Manager-Medical Director. The starting salary is about 3K, and after five years of growth, the annual salary can generally reach 120,000. Dingxiangyuan has offered to hire a medical director for 500,000. It requires frequent business trips, which is quite tiring. Senior positions are usually better filled by people with clinical backgrounds. If you want to join the CRA industry, you can first study clinical trial application materials, and then learn ICH and SOP, so that you will be in a more advantageous position when applying for a job. Suitable academic qualifications: Bachelor's degree or master's degree in medicine or pharmacy.

Registration and approval-----Compile and submit various pharmaceutical, preclinical and clinical trial materials to the Food and Drug Administration. It sounds simple, but it's actually a very complicated position. Practitioners must not only be proficient in pharmacy, medicine, laws and regulations, but also have strong writing skills and communication skills. A new drug application requires about 30 pieces of research data. Any problems with any data must be quickly identified and resolved. coordinate solution. It is really a great thing to be proficient in various fields of knowledge and do it with ease. Registration personnel are divided into domestic registration, international registration, and device registration and various subdivided positions. If you are thorough in any field, you will be able to settle down. The entry salary is generally 3-5K, and after a 5-year development period, the salary can reach 100,000-200,000. There are already pharmaceutical companies recruiting registered affairs managers with an annual salary of 600,000. Educational qualifications: bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctorate.

2) Production system

Production is a link with relatively low added value, because most of the work is within prescribed rules and regulations, and you just go in and follow it. The salary is usually not high. But the mix of senior positions is still quite impressive. Medical Talent Network is recruiting production directors, and the ones with high price tags already have an annual salary of 300,000 yuan.

Technician------is responsible for adjusting the production process to ensure optimal production efficiency. This is a position where you can solve practical problems. Very busy when busy, very free when free. Starting salary is 3-6K. Suitable educational background: bachelor's degree or master's degree in pharmacy.

Workshop Director——Arranges workshop production and manages people and things. Salary varies, around 3-6K. Suitable educational background: Bachelor's degree

Quality inspector ----- testing products. The work content is relatively monotonous and you only need to follow the pharmacopoeia. The salary is relatively pitiful, most of which are less than 2K. Suitable educational background: college, bachelor's degree.

3) Marketing Department

After developing and producing things, they still have to be sold so that everyone can eat. Marketing departments are usually divided into marketing departments and sales departments. The former is responsible for market planning, marketing activities, academic conferences and market research, etc., while the latter is responsible for visiting hospitals and selling drugs. According to unreliable data, the annual salary of marketing directors and sales directors of listed companies is around 1 million to 2 million RMB. Job types include product specialists, product managers, marketing specialists, pharmaceutical representatives, and pharmaceutical investment promotion.

Product Manager ------ Since P&G introduced the position of product manager in 1928, the product manager system has achieved widespread success in all walks of life. Product managers hold the title of "manager", but they are not in charge of people, but stewards of products. Product managers are involved in everything from R&D to production to market planning to sales implementation. Different companies have different divisions of labor. Generally speaking, product managers are one of the core positions of the company and can be converted from any position such as R&D, production, and sales. He is the bridge between R&D and the market, so he must understand both technology and marketing. He must be able to read literature all day long, and also be able to socialize and organize activities. Work includes communicating R&D goals, designing product promotional materials, and planning marketing activities. Starting salary is 8K-10,000. After a 5-year development period, the annual salary can reach 150,000-300,000.

It was rumored that some time ago, Nanjing Zhengda Tianqing offered a price of 250,000 yuan to recruit a product manager for oncology drugs. After three months of searching in Shanghai, they could not find anyone who wanted to change jobs. Suitable academic qualifications: bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctorate.

Product specialist------a position focusing on product knowledge and application. The work is mainly for training, scientific conferences, compilation of product materials and collection of academic materials. Located at the front line of contact between enterprises and hospitals. Starting salary is 5K-10,000. Suitable academic qualifications: Master's degree.

Marketing specialist-----mainly focuses on marketing activities, strategic planning and academic conferences. The headquarters and engine for carrying out marketing work. The work in the marketing department is not colorful, but a very boring position. We have to face a large amount of data every day and analyze trends from it. After a long time, people will become a bit geeky. Starting salary is 3-5K. Suitable academic qualifications: Bachelor's degree, Master's degree or MBA.

Pharmaceutical representative-----a position that everyone is familiar with, with the highest income expectations and the greatest pressure. The competition is extremely fierce and the elimination is very cruel. Pharmaceutical representatives of foreign companies can usually earn an annual salary of 100,000-150,000 yuan in the first year of employment, and domestic companies can usually earn 50,000 yuan a year. Although the golden period of pharmaceutical sales has passed, generally speaking, the salary is in the middle range in society. Although it is incomparable to fund managers and real estate salesmen in the previous bull market, compared with traditional industries such as FMCG and machinery, the salary is still good. Will the medical representative die? Of course not. Any business needs salespeople to sell things. Drugs are sold in the same way in Hong Kong and the United States, except that they don't blatantly give kickbacks. It's just that their medical expenses are paid by the government and insurance companies. The sales model is exactly the same. Suitable educational background: Bachelor's degree.

Pharmaceutical investment-----an increasingly marginalized profession. In essence, they are channel sales personnel in the pharmaceutical industry, responsible for selling the varieties on hand to clinical companies, and then clinical pharmaceutical representatives sell the varieties to hospitals. The focus of the work is to constantly find people to make your own varieties. The contact area is much wider than that of pharmaceutical representatives. Relatively speaking, the pressure is less than that of pharmaceutical representatives. The salary gap is huge. The entry and exit salary may be less than 2K, but many people who have been working for 5-10 years can get an annual salary of 200,000. However, I personally believe that the golden period for investment promotion has passed. With the further integration of the pharmaceutical industry, the living space of investment recruiters may be further compressed. Suitable educational background: college, bachelor's degree.

4) Other related jobs

First of all, I have to say that although these jobs are not mainstream in the pharmaceutical industry, they are much better than the mainstream. They are: universities, drug regulatory bureaus, drug testing institutes, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital pharmacy departments. You have to have some connections to get into these units, so you're really lucky to get in naked. Working for the party is much better than working for a company. Even if you get a position as director of the Food and Drug Administration, it is still better than working as a boss outside, let alone working as a part-time worker. Whoever becomes a director in the future, don’t forget the brothers who worked so hard to write articles!

In the past few years, the country has advanced and the people have retreated. Bureaucratic capital and power rent-seeking have expanded unprecedentedly. The Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies have made a lot of money. It’s full of food, so if you have the chance to go, don’t miss it.

Are hospital pharmacies good? This depends on the hospital, but tertiary hospitals are still fine. In recent years, clinical pharmacists have gradually emerged in large hospitals, which is also a good entry point, and their development is unlimited.