America’s Top Pharmacists

Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with known pharmacological properties but a raw chemical is of no use to a patient. Pharmaceutics deals with the formulation of a pure drug substance into a dosage form such as a tablet, capsule, suppository, injection, cream, ointment, eye-drop, eardrop, inhalation, nasal spray, transdermal patch, which is suitable for use on or by a patient. Medicinal or Pharmaceutical Chemistry This is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacy involved with designing and developing pharmaceutical drugs. Medicinal chemistry involves the identification, synthesis and development of new chemical entities suitable for therapeutic use. It also includes the study of existing drugs, their biological properties, and their Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR). Medicinal Chemistry is a highly interdisciplinary science combining organic chemistry with biochemistry, computational chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, statistics, and physical chemistry. Pharmacy Practice Pharmacy Practice is the discipline of pharmacy that involves developing the professional roles of pharmacists. Areas of Pharmacy Practice include: Disease-state management Clinical interventions Professional development Pharmaceutical Care Communication skills Health psychology Patient care Preventing drug abuse Preventing drug/drug interactions or drug/food interactions Pharmacology is sometimes considered a fourth discipline of pharmacy. Although pharmacology is essential to the study of pharmacy, it is not specific to pharmacy. Therefore, it is usually considered to be a field of the broader sciences. There are various specialties of pharmacy practice. Some specialization is based on the place of practice including: community, hospital, consultant, locum, drug information, regulatory affairs, industry, and academia. Other specializations are based on clinical roles including: nuclear, oncology, cardiovascular, infectious disease, diabetes, nutrition, geriatric, and psychiatric pharmacy. 

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