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Community Pharmacists
Pharmacists practicing in community-based settings are health care providers who offer either generalist or specialist ambulatory care services to patients in the communities they serve

Hospital Pharmacists
Hospital pharmacy is the health care service that comprises the art, practice, and profession of choosing, preparing, storing, compounding and dispensing medicines and medical devices, advising patients, doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals on their safe, effective and efficient use.

Clinical Specialists

• Ambulatory Care - Ambulatory care clinical specialists are pharmacists who directly manage patients in an outpatient setting. They manage common disease states such as hypertension, diabetes and patients on blood thinners.
• Adult Medicine - Focused on the care of adults with medical problems. These specialists usually manage the complex regimens of adult hospitalized patients.
• Critical-Care - Critical Care Pharmacy specializes in the delivery of patient care services by pharmacists, as integral members of interprofessional teams, working to ensure the safe and effective use of medications in critically ill patients.
• Drug Information -  A drug information pharmacist may work in research, teaching, precepting, formulary management, adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting, and participation in the pharmacy and therapeutics committee. They can also work for large drug information repository companies.
• Pediatrics - Pediatric Pharmacy ensures safe and effective drug use and optimal medication therapy outcomes in children from birth up to 18 years of age. Practice settings might be either inpatient or outpatient.
• Geriatrics - Geriatric pharmacy specialists are those pharmacists that have special knowledge in the care of older adults. Practice settings can be inpatient, outpatient or long-term care.
• Nutrition Support - Nutrition Support Pharmacy addresses the care of patients receiving specialized nutrition support, including total parenteral nutrition or feeding tube nutrition.
• Oncology - Oncology Pharmacy provides evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy management and direct patient care for individuals with cancer, including treatment assessment and monitoring for potential adverse drug reactions and interactions.
• Pharmacotherapy - Pharmacotherapy is the treatment of a disorder or disease with medication. Pharmacotherapy clinical specialists practice in a wide array of settings including inpatient and outpatient arenas.
• Psychopharmacology - Psychopharmacology is the study of the use of medications in treating mental disorders. The complexity of this field requires continuous study in order to keep current with new advances. Psychopharmacologists need to understand all the clinically relevant principles of pharmacokinetics (what the body does to medication) and pharmacodynamics (what the medications do to the body).
• Transplant - Transplant pharmacists provide evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy management and care for patients throughout all phases of solid organ transplantation.

Nuclear Pharmacist
Nuclear pharmacy is a specialty area of pharmacy practice involved with the preparation of radioactive materials to improve and promote health through the safe and effective use of radioactive drugs to diagnose and treat specific disease states.

Pharmaceutical Sales & Marketing
This career is focused on advertising and promoting the company’s pharmaceutical products in line with all relevant rules and regulations

Pharmacy Academics
Academic pharmacists educate, train, assess and develop pharmacy students, pre-registration trainees, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals. They can deliver didactic, laboratory, and clinical instruction and do research and scholarship.

Professional Associations 
Pharmacists who work for professional associations plan and prepare meetings for the association, conduct board meetings, and can also work for local, state and federal advocacy groups for the organization.

Compounding Pharmacist
The traditional role of a compounding pharmacist is to make drugs prescribed by doctors for specific patients with needs that can't be met by commercially available drugs.  This includes both sterile and non-sterile products.

Drug Regulatory Affairs
Regulatory affairs pharmacists are concerned with the regulations and guidelines for clinical trials and other aspects of medical research.  A career in regulatory affairs is in either the public sector (government body or public policy) or in a pharmaceutical company.

Medication Safety
The medication safety leader’s role includes responsibility for leadership, medication safety expertise, influencing practice change, research, and education.  Pharmacists in this role usually work for large health care systems as patient safety officers.

Publications
Pharmacists can work for professional journals as an editor or associate editor reviewing manuscripts submitted for publication.

Research & Development
A career in R&D could land you in a lab working in many phases of drug development. You could work on clinical trials, regulatory affairs or in pharmacovigilance - monitoring and reporting the effectiveness of any side effects of pharmaceutical products.  

Medical Communications
Effectively communicate details of medical information both orally and in writing to health care professionals, consumers, and industry personnel.  Pharmacists in this role can work with pharmaceutical companies or other educational companies.