PHARMACY &

SCOPE OF PHARMACY

Presented By –
Shahnawaz Ahmad
B. Pharm second year
 Introduction
 The Pharmacy word derived from the
Greek word “pharmakon” means drug.

 Pharmacy is the art and science of

preparing and dispensing of drug.
 Who is Pharmacist ?
The formal definition of a pharmacist
is, a person who is professionally
qualified to prepare and dispense
medicinal drugs.
DRUG
Any Substance used in the treatment of
disease or diagnosis is known as drug.

Diagnosis is the determination of nature of

disease
 Raw Materials
The basic ingredients which are needed for
production.
Raw materials can be either active drug or
inactive substances.

The material may be-

Natural ( plant, animal, mineral)
Synthetic
semi-synthetic
 Pharama Marketing Academic
Quality Control & S Production &
C Manufacturing
Quality Assurance O
P Formulation &
Pharmaceutical
E Development
Packaging
O Research & Development
Drug Regulatory
F Hospital Pharmacy
Affairs
Regulatory Bodies P Community Pharmacy
H
Scientist in CDRI & A Drug Inspector
R Go
NBRI M Drug Controller vt.
A Job
Abroad Research C s
Drug Analyst
Y

Pharmacy Tree
 Formulation & Development

Production & Manufacturing

Drug Manufacturing is the process of industrial-
sacle synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs by
pharmaceutical companies.

The process of drug manufacturing can be broken

down into a series of unit operations, such as
milling, granulation, coating, tablet pressing,
and others.
Manufacturing
Tablet & Capsule Inspection machin
 Pharmaceutical Packaging
Packaging is the science, art & technology of enclosing
or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale &
use.

Pharmaceutical packaging is the economical means of

providing protection, identification, information,
convenience and stability of the product.
 Functions / Benefits of Packaging
 Product identification- Packaging greatly
helps in identification of the products.

 Product protection- Packaging protect the

content of the product from spoilage, breakage,
leakage

 Facilitate the use of product- Packaging

makes product convenient to open, handle and
use by the consumer

Product promotion- Packaging helps in

product promotion & attract the attention of
the people while purchasing
 Types of packaging
Primary packaging Secondary packaging Tertiary packaging

 Is the material  Is outside the  Is usedfor bulk

that first envelops primary packaging, handling and
the product and used to group shipping
hold it. primary package
together.

Strip pack Blister pack

Cartons
Bottle Boxes
Spray
Pharmaceutical Marketing
 Some times called Medico-marketing or
Pharma-marketing.

 B & D Pharmacy fresher are employed in

marketing of pharmaceutical products and
medical devices as Medical Representatives
(MR).
 Medical Representative
A Men who represent a pharma company in terms
of their BRANDS in front of doctors as well as
Medical institute.

BRANDS = Product (Medicine) OR

Medical Devices Name
 Medical Representative
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 Career

The business of advertising or other wise

promoting the sale of Pharmaceutical drugs.

Career grow in marketing depends on the

networking ability, Knowledge and
Communication skills.
Branch of Pharmacy

National institute
-NIPER & DIPSER
 Drug Analyst

1- In which testing the accuracy of drug and

medicine.

2- This industries specially in order to

maintain a proper quantity of drug.

3- In which we are comparsion the drug limit

test with pharmacopoia.
 Quality Control
A system of maintaining standards in
manufactured products by testing a
sample of the output against the
specification.
 Quality Assurance

The maintenance of a desired level of

quality in a service of product, especially
by means of attention to every stage of
the process of delievery or production
 Academic
 This is a profession associated with Job
satisfaction and social status.
 They can teach in any pharmacy institute as a
lecture, professor and other post.
These are some opportunities –
 Lecture
 Assistant Professor
 Associate Professor
 Professor
 Bussiness.
 Research & development
 R&D can be defined as any project to resolve
scientific or technological uncertainty with the aim
of securing advance in science or technology.

 The Pharmacy industry is one such industry that

thrives on research and development for the
research of new molecules process, to be used as
drugs, cosmetics, excipients, industrial chemical &
preservatives.
Various area of R & D

- New drug discovery research

- Process development
- Formulation & development
- Clinical trials
- Designing of dosage forms
- Pharmacodynamics studies
- Bioavailability of drug
- Toxicological studies
- Stability of dosage form
 Drug Inspector
The central and state governments are
empowered to appoint Drugs Inspector and
to assign them definite areas.

Drug inspectors are deemed to be public

servants and are officially sub-ordinate to
licensing authority.
A Doctor gives life to the patient through Medicines.

A Pharmacist gives life to Medicines

through his knowledge and skills.

Thank you.