Pharmacy is facing a new challenge in Personalized Medicine.Personalized medicine offers multiple oppurtunities to Pharmacist and Pharmacist with specific knowledge that helps to advance the use of Personalized medicine as tool. Pharmacogenetics play a major role in futuristic advanced medicine.Pharmacogenetics the use of genetic information to guide drug therapy decisions,which is an important component of personalized medicine
Pharmacist are providing services like glucose testing,BP monitorring,cholesterol screening and immunizations in ambulatory clinics and community pharmacies. Pharmacist in personalized medicine and pharmacogenetics are very broad.Pharmacist must require specialized training in clinical pharmacogenomics.
Pharmacist also play an important role in clinical decision support tool, pharmacy informatics,database management,logistics of genetic testing,clinical guideline development and logistics of genetic testing.Oppurtunities for Pharm D graduates are Pharmacogenomics Specialist,Clinical Pharmacist in Precision Oncology and Data Analyst in Pharmaco-informatics
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-Personalized medicine-are pharmacists are ready for the challenge? by Mary Jayne Kennedy
-Emerging Career oppurtunities in Personalized Medicine for Pharmacy Graduates.
