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. 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.

Employment prospect of pharmacy specialty

Pharmacy majors in American universities mainly train professional technicians who can engage in identification, drug design and clinical rational use in the fields of drug production, inspection, circulation, development, research and use.

Pharmaceutical graduates also have a wide range of employment directions, and all pharmaceutical-related fields need pharmaceutical graduates.

As a scientific researcher, you can engage in drug research and development in the research departments of scientific research institutes and pharmaceutical companies; As a hospital pharmacist, I can engage in preparation, quality inspection and clinical pharmacy in the hospital pharmacy department; As drug inspectors, they can engage in drug quality appraisal in drug inspection institutes and formulate corresponding quality standards; As employees of the company, they can engage in drug production, circulation and domestic and foreign trade in pharmaceutical trading companies or pharmaceutical enterprises.