Short term courses after B Pharm or Pharm D (Doctor of Pharmacy)

Short term courses after B Pharm or Pharm D (Doctor of Pharmacy)

Many Pharmacy students will rack their brains about what to do after Completion of their B Pharm or Pharm D. They will be fighting tooth and nails to get good jobs and salary and also in search of excellent skills and extra other short period certification courses. Before getting into content,   I came up with a notification from the Indian government released on 16^th July 2019. This is exclusively for Pharm D students, which says that Pharm D doctors and B pharm.. or M pharm are one and the same. I mean they can enter any job sectors where B pharm or M pharm students are eligible. So It is suggesting that PharmDians are also eligible to study some courses which Bpharm or Mpharm people opt after completion, of their course. Let's get started. 

I shortlisted some of the short term courses with a duration of not more than 2 years, i.e., associate degree or diploma courses or less than a year in the count of the month, i.e., program. Many people do not know about some of these courses.

 Now we can see one by one course in detail.

 1)  Medical coding

 Medical coding is the transformation of healthcare diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment into universal medical alphanumeric codes. The diagnoses and procedure codes are taken from medical record documentation, such as transcription of physician's notes, laboratory, and radiologic results, etc. This course has many divisions like CPC, CAC, HPCS, and so on, depending upon Jobs required.

Jobs: as a Medical coder in clinical research fields, pharmaceutical companies, Hospitals & doctors' offices, Healthcare consulting services, Educational institutions, Insurance agencies, Law firms, Government agencies, Work-from-home medical coding.

Salary of Medical coders at the beginning is approximately Rs. 15-20000/-, further, it may increase your experience.

2) Medical billing :

Medical billing translates a healthcare service into a billing claim. Medical billing is the process of submitting and following up on claims with health insurance companies to receive payment for services rendered by a healthcare provider.

Courses: similar to coding courses

Both medical coding and medical billing courses can be learned together. Because the coders and billers in hospital sectors together have a variety of tasks. The primary difference, however, is that medical coders translate medical services into codes, while medical billers translate the claims from these codes into reimbursements from insurance and patients.

Jobs: most fields and sectors where medical coders are present and especially in hospitals and health sectors.

3) Medical writing: 

If you have great writing skills, I suggest this course. Medical writing involves writing scientific documents of different types, which include regulatory and research-related documents, disease or drug-related educational and promotional literature, publication articles like journal manuscripts and abstracts, content for healthcare websites, health-related magazines, or news ...

Duration of course:-3-6 months candidate is expected to complete the course in a minimum of three and a maximum of six months.

Jobs:- Medical journalism, publications, and presentations, research documents, regulatory documents, medical marketing of health care products.

Salary: 20-25 k/month, in the beginning , goes up to 1 lakhs/month upon your experience and skills.

4)Clinical SAS / SAS Clinical 

Clinical SAS is the application of SAS technology to the clinical domain for clinical trial data analysis in pharmaceutical/biotech and clinical research companies. It is used to organize, standardize, and manage clinical research data. SAS Clinical helps to analyze data sets and support strategic analyses.

Course duration: Clinical SAS training takes a maximum of 2 to 3 months.

 Job opportunities: As a clinical SAS programmer in pharmaceutical Industries, clinical research companies, clinical trials

Salary: of the job is initially when you begin the job, your pay scale maybe 2-3 lakhs per annum, later after 2-3 years of experience, it may increase up to 4-5 lakh per annum.

 5) Pharmacovigilance :

Pharmacovigilance (PV or PhV), also known as drug safety, is the pharmacological science relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. As such, pharmacovigilance heavily focuses on adverse drug reactions, or ADRs, and medication errors.

 Duration: certificate course takes four months, and pg diploma course takes one year to 1 and a half years.

 Jobs: Clinical research fields and pharmaceutical companies.

Salary: A jobholder in this field can quickly get the starting salary of Rs.3.5 - Rs.8 lakhs per annum. As more recognition is given to drug safety all over the world, jobs in India in this field are increasing in number.

6) Nutrition and dietetics: 

Nutrition and Dietetics is a field in medical science that helps in keeps individuals fit. Nutrition is the study of nutrients in the food, how the body uses nutrients, and the relationship between diet, health, and diseases. The interpretation and communication of the science of nutrition so that people can make practical choices about food and lifestyle in both health and disease.

Duration of course: 1 year to 3 years based on the type of class like a diploma, degree, or Master's degree in nutrition and dietetics.

 Jobs: available as nutritionist and dietitian In health sectors, and also in fitness centers.

 Salary: of Nutritionist and dietitian is 16 k to 20 k at the beginning, and with experience, after 4-5 years, your salary may go up to 40-50 k.

7) Pharmaceutical Marketing and management :

  This is A program that combines the study of primary and pharmaceutical sciences with marketing and management studies, and that prepares individuals for careers in pharmaceutical sales, marketing, management, and related fields within the health care industry.

 Course duration: is about 4-6 months for the certification course and one year for a pg diploma course. And guys, there is also an MBA in Pharmaceutical Marketing and management, a post-graduate course with a duration of 2 years.

 Jobs: pharma company marketing manager, pharma eCommerce jobs, and Marketing and management related jobs in Pharma industries.

 Salary: of these jobs depends upon Skills, experience in the position and type, of course, you studied like a diploma or degree so on.. A well versed experienced person in this field gets up to 10-14 lakhs per year or annum.

8)Clinical research : 

It is a branch of healthcare science that determines the safety and effectiveness (efficacy) of medications, devices, diagnostic products, and treatment regimens intended for human use. These may be used for prevention, treatment, diagnosis, or for relieving symptoms of a disease.

So the duration of this course is six months for the certification course and one-year pg diploma course, and also, there is an MSc in Clinical research that is two years of duration.

Job: available as a Clinical research Analyst, Clinical Research Associates, Clinical Research Coordinator, Clinical Research Physicians, Biostatistician.

The average salary is about two and a half lakh to 5lakh.

9) Medicinal chemistry :

 Many of you pharmacy graduates or students know about this as a subject, so this Medicinal Chemistry program covers the dynamic areas of interest, which includes knowledge about drug discovery, product chemistry, organic synthesis, and much more. The course consists of topics surrounding the study of chemical bonding, chemical kinetics, synthetic organic chemistry, Thermodynamics, and others.

This course duration is three months for certification and also has Msc in medicinal chemistry with a duration of 2 years.

Then jobs here are mainly as an associate researcher and assistant professor. Also, in clinical research fields.

So guys here we go with the last course that is

10) Biostatistics or Pharmaceutical statistics

Biostatistics covers applications and contributions not only from health, medicines and, nutrition but also from fields such as genetics, biology, epidemiology, and many others. O It mainly consists of various steps like the generation of hypothesis, collection of data, and application of statistical analysis.

Duration in, pg diploma in biostatistics takes one year, and about certificate courses, you will find hardly very few institutions offer certificate courses in biostatistics.

Jobs available areas biostatistician in industries, clinical research companies, and in a few other sectors.

So the average salary of biostatisticians in India is 5 lakh approximately And variable Depending on the type of job and experience.

So, guys, these all are the courses I enlisted for You all my Pharmacy friends. These improve the quality of your resumes, in some cases, especially in Pharmaceutical industries. However, if you get a job thereby directly on your Graduate certificate and your Interview skills, while on your career, those industries may offer you to study free without Making you pay fees or those companies like Sun Pharma, IQVIA and some others pay your short term courses fees. So I also want you people to be motivated all the time and keep hardworking that gives excellent later on.

Work Hard in silence, and Make noise with Success. 

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