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

 Short term courses after B pharm or Pharm D

Many pharmacy students are thinking what to do after Completing B Pharm or Pharm D. How to get good jobs and Salary with good skills and extra other short period certification courses. Before starting content   i am here with a notification from Indian government noticed on 16 th july 2019. This is specially for PharmD people ,this notification says that Pharm D doctors are equal to B pharm.. or M pharm i mean they can enter any job sectors where B pharm or M pharm students will do. So this means PharmDians are also eligible to study some courses which Bpharm or Mpharm people do after completion of course. So Guys   lets begin our  content.  

Here are the short term courses i shortlisted. All are less than 2 year i.e associate degree or diploma courses or less than year in count of month i.e  program. many people do not know about some of these courses.

 Now  we can see about one by one courses 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 radio logic results, etc.This course has many divisions like cpc,cac, hpcs and so on depending upon Jobs required.

Jobs : as 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 coder at beginning is approximately 15-20000 , further it may increase on 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 in order to receive payment for services rendered by a healthcare provider.

Courses: similar to coding courses

Both medical coding and medical billing courses can be learnt together. Because the coders and billers in hospital sectors together have   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 hospital and health sectors.

 

3) Medical writing: 

If u have a great writing skill , i suggest u 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 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 at 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 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 Clinicals helps to analyze data sets and support strategic analyses.

Course duration : Clinical sas training takes maximum 2 to 3 months.

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

Salary: of the job is initially when u 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 4 months and pg diploma course takes 1 year to 1 and half year.

 Jobs: in Clinical research fields and pharmaceutical companies.

Salary:A job holder in this field can easily 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 medicine science that helps in keeps individuals fit. Nutrition is the study of nutrients in the food,how body uses nutrients and 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 type of course like diploma, degree or Master 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 beginning and with experience after 4-5 years yours salary may go up to 40-50 k.

 

7) Pharmaceutical Marketing and management :

  This is A program that combines the study of basic 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 certification course and 1 year for pg diploma course. And guys there is also MBA in Pharmaceutical Marketing and management , a post graduate course with duration of 2 years.

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

 

Salary :of these jobs is actually depends upon Skills , experience in the job and type of course u studied like 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 duration of this course is 6 months for certification course and 1 year pg diploma course and also there is Msc in Clinical research that is 2 years of duration.


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

Average salary is about 2 and half lakh to 5lakh.



9) Medicinal chemistry :

 Many of u 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 includes topics surrounding the study of chemical bonding, chemical kinetics, synthetic organic chemistry, Thermodynamics and other.

This course duration is 3 months for certification and also has Msc in medicinal chemistry with duration of 2 years.

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



So guys here we go with last course that is

10) Bio statistics or Pharmaceutical statistics

Bio statistics 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 is mainly consists of various steps like generation of hypothesis, collection of data, and application of statistical analysis.

Duration in , pg diploma in bio statistics takes 1 year and about certificate courses you will find hardly very less institutions offer certificate courses in bio statistics.

Jobs available are as bio statistician in industries , clinical research companies and in few other sectors.

So average salary of bio statistician in India is 5 lakh approximately And variable Depending on  type of job and Experience.

So guys these all are the courses i enlisted for You all my Pharmacy friends , These actually improves  quality of your resumes, in some cases especially in Pharmaceutical industries though if you get job their by directly on your Graduate certificate and your Interview skills , while on your job those industries may offer you to study free without Making you to pay fees or those companies like Sun Pharma , iqvia and some others pay your short term courses fees . So I also want u people to be motivated  all the time and keep hardworking that give great later on.

 Work Hard in silence , Success be Your noise . 




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