What is pharmacy?

Pharmacy is a health care industry that connects health science and chemical science, and bears the responsibility of ensuring the safe and effective use of drugs.

Pharmacy mainly studies the source, processing, properties, functions, analysis, identification, preparation, production, storage and search (including synthesis) of new drugs.

The main task is to continuously provide more effective drugs and improve the quality of drugs, ensure the safety of drugs, and enable patients to treat or cure diseases in the least harmful and most effective way.

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Skills requirements:

1, master the basic theory and knowledge of pharmacy, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical analysis;

2, master the main pharmaceutical preparations, quality control, drug and biological interaction, pharmacodynamics and drug safety evaluation and other basic methods and technologies;

3. Have the ability of preliminary design of pharmaceutical preparations, selection of pharmaceutical analysis methods, pharmacological experiment and evaluation of new drugs, and participation in clinical rational drug use;

4, familiar with the basic knowledge of pharmaceutical management regulations, policies and marketing;

5. Understand the development of modern pharmacy;

6. Master the basic methods of literature retrieval and information query, and have certain scientific research and practical work ability.

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