Career as a Doctor and Pharmacist

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Part A:
Describe two jobs that you are like to be in?
I aspire to become a doctor and the next alternative job role that my qualification permits is
to become a pharmacist. The role of a specialist doctor is to serve the population by
addressing their health care needs by investigating their health related issues and ensuring
the wellbeing of the patient by applying proper treatment regimen. They are alone among
the health care professionals who are capable of taking the ultimate accountability for the
difficult decisions in situations of medical complexities and uncertainty by drawing on their
own scientific knowledge and a well-developed clinical reasoning (Wynn, 2015).
A pharmacist can be referred to as the health care professional who are responsible
for recommending proper medicines to the patients and advising the most secured way for
taking the medications, preparing medications by the review and the interpretation of the
doctor’s order. They are responsible for dispensing the medications by compounding,
packaging and labelling the pharmaceuticals. A pharmacist has to work in a varied range of
settings such as hospitals, clinics and in retail pharmacy stores (pharmacist Dictionary, 2018)
Part B
Describe what are the two jobs mentioned in part A involve in a day-to- day sense.
Identify the potential employers and basic education needed for Doctor and pharmacist?

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A specialist normally initiates his day by attending different people with an allied range of
clinical issues. The counselling session might take about 30-40 minutes, which includes the
patient assessment. The time taken in assessing the patient depends upon the complexity of
the clinical condition. At the time of the counselling, a specialist is required to go through
the patient history and determine the clinical priorities of the concerned patient. History
taking and patient assessment helps the specialists to develop the treatment goals and
implement them (Ahmad Kfraoy, physician, Coburg Family Medical Centre, interviewed 1.9,
2018). However, some of the major roles that a pharmacist has to perform is
communicating with the patients, consulting the doctors and raising flags against any
discrepancies or medication errors (khalid, Pharmacist, summer hill Pharmacy Interview,
3.9. 2018).
Potential doctors and pharmacist is required for a wide range of sectors like the
medicinal service industries, including both the government and the private
pharmaceuticals. Drug specialists are also required in industrial and the retail pharmacies.
Several websites like, www.indeed.com and www.seek.com.au., promote
employment opportunities in different sectors of health care. Marie Stopes Australia is a
national family planning organization that has recently posted a job requirement for a
doctor in the reproductive care sector (indeed, 2018).
The eligibility criteria to become a doctor is get a bachelor of medicine degree. The
course is of four years. A bachelor of surgery from a recognized university is also needed to
become a successful doctor. In order to become a pharmacist there are some particular
choice of subjects that that has to be learned in standard in the 12th standard. For example,