1 pharmacology
Many medical universities have pharmaceutical colleges under the basic medical college and pharmaceutical colleges directly under the school. The so-called basic medical college is a medical college that manages clinical, anesthesia, prevention, oral and other departments. The School of Pharmacy of Basic Medical College has a pharmacological direction, which often requires basic research, such as the discovery of new drug receptors and the research on new activities of listed drugs, that is, scientific research. Such graduate students often need to continue their studies, have more opportunities to go abroad, and are more likely to publish papers. However, employment is mainly for professors in universities or some research institutions. Of course, if you develop well, you can go to a foreign company to do scientific research, which is rare.
In contrast, the school of pharmacy has a wide range of pharmacological directions, some of which are basic research and some are pharmacological and toxicological experiments. In addition to the above employment situation, these places can also do non-clinical research on drugs after graduation, that is, do animal experiments on newly discovered new drugs to preliminarily determine their activities, and do clinical research on drugs in Phase I, II, III and IV, which are actually mainly Phase I and II, mainly working in hospitals and other medical institutions!
Recommended institutions: As mentioned above, pharmacology is often closely related to clinical knowledge, so the development of pharmacology depends on biochemistry and physiology. Therefore, the strength of pharmacology in medical colleges is relatively strong, and there are affiliated hospitals, which provide strong conditions for its development!
Institutions: peking university health science center, Union Medical College, Fudan University, School of Medicine of Sun Yat-sen University, Tongji Medical College of Huake, Central South University, etc.
In addition to the above, the pharmacology of medical university is good, you can choose according to your own situation!
2 medicinal chemistry and natural medicinal chemistry
Medicinal chemistry is mainly about drug synthesis, which is based on the principle of organic chemistry, using small molecules to synthesize drugs, or extracting natural products for semi-synthetic transformation or modification. Natural medicinal chemistry is mainly about the extraction, separation and purification of natural ingredients. Therefore, it is often said that this is highly toxic, because it often comes into contact with organic reagents and contains many toxic and carcinogenic ingredients!
In recent years, especially in recent years, pharmacy is very popular, mainly because the employment situation is better. Because of the emergence of many pharmaceutical companies, drug synthesis is needed. You can go to a pharmaceutical factory or scientific research institution to study synthesis in the laboratory. There are two directions in this field, one is pharmaceutical engineering and the other is research. Generally, graduate students who don't do pharmaceutical engineering mainly do it in the laboratory, but now many pharmaceutical companies need a lot of synthetic talents!
Colleges and universities: As mentioned above, pharmaceutical synthesis is closely related to chemistry, so in a specialized pharmaceutical university or a powerful comprehensive university, because of its strong chemistry specialty, it provides a strong condition for the development of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Union Medical College, China Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and many other colleges and universities, with the highest comprehensive strength, pharmacy will be higher!
Natural medicinal chemistry suggests that you choose University of Traditional Chinese Medicine!
3 drugstore
Pharmacy mainly studies the development of pharmaceutical preparations and new dosage forms. The development of many new dosage forms depends on excipients, which are mainly natural or synthetic polymer materials, so university pharmacy with strong chemistry such as material chemistry is very good, except specialized pharmaceutical universities! Pharmaceutical employment is wide. In addition to pharmaceutical preparations, emulsifiers such as cosmetics O/W and W/O also need such talents! So girls who don't want to do pharmacology but don't want to choose toxicity can consider this direction. Basic courses are mainly closely related to physical chemistry, but research may be inseparable from materials science!
Colleges and universities Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Union Medical College, China Pharmaceutical University, and many other institutions can choose according to their own conditions. Here are some institutions that I think rank in the top according to my understanding!
4 drug analysis
Drug analysis is the most widely employed, but it is also the most widely talked about, because in addition to the choice of institutions, the Food and Drug Administration also has many talents, such as food testing and identification, cosmetics identification, sewage environmental identification and so on. This is also the farthest one related to scientific research, mainly for application, so it won't be difficult to find a job. For example, many pharmaceutical companies need such talents for quality control and quality inspection, that is, QC and QA. Being suitable for graduate school is just like looking for a job.
The quality of drug analysis depends largely on the funds and equipment of the school. For example, the nuclear magnetic vibration instrument is very expensive, and many schools do not have such equipment or the equipment is not very advanced.
The equipment of Shenyang Pharmaceutical University is said to be very good, not to mention Concord, China Pharmaceutical University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and so on.
Second, how to choose
According to their own strength, there are two main situations for students who are admitted to foreign schools.
1 the institutions that want to apply for the exam are the same no matter what direction they take, and they should be selected according to their strength.
If the examination subjects of pharmacology are different from pharmacy and pharmacy, then the main subjects of pharmacology are physics, biochemistry, anatomy, pharmacology and other subjects unrelated to chemistry. If you are a clinical student in a medical university, you will have an advantage over students in a pharmaceutical university or a comprehensive university.
If the major of scientific chemistry has an advantage in taking the pharmaceutical examination, it can be analyzed according to its own situation, and the competition may be less.
The above is just my personal opinion, and there are inevitably many problems. I hope you can give us your comments or just use it as a reference. It's best to make your own decisions!
There is still an advantage in our school's postgraduate entrance examination, and instructors can still see this at ordinary times. The key is to find a very good tutor in related majors. Our school only knows the books used for postgraduate entrance examination. For example, the analytical chemistry book used in our school is Analytical Chemistry published by Science Press, which is usually used in our school, and it still has advantages compared with the students who take exams in our school in other schools.