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What exactly is Pharmaceutical Chemistry? Stuff dealing with making new drugs or stuff dealing with dispensing drugs (like at a pharmacy)? Would drug development require more eye-hand coordination then other applied chemistry areas?
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What exactly is Pharmaceutical Chemistry? Stuff dealing with making new drugs or stuff dealing with dispensing drugs (like at a pharmacy)? Would drug development require more eye-hand coordination then other applied chemistry areas?[/quote]
I can't say for sure what was meant by that, but I took it to mean drug development, not being a pharmacist (dispensing drugs). "Drug development" would involve mostly running reactions, as well as purifying and analyzing the products. This involves the same kind of eye-hand type skill as cooking, but it can get quite difficult when you are doing reactions with chemicals that must be kept away from air.
I think a good rule of thumb for deciding whether to study synthetic/pharmaceutical chemistry is the following:
1. Do you like to cook?
2. Can you do well in chemistry class without killing yourself (both general and organic)?
If the answer to both is yes, then you might be a good fit. If the answer to only one is yes, you should consider another major or career.
What exactly is Pharmaceutical Chemistry? Stuff dealing with making new drugs or stuff dealing with dispensing drugs (like at a pharmacy)? Would drug development require more eye-hand coordination then other applied chemistry areas?
Pharmaceutical Chemistry is mainly for the Pharmaceutical Industry, so it's not about dispensing drugs. It'sm more about making the drugs.
Thankyou for you good advice. I am in Canada. We choose our majors really in our first year. I chose Chemistry, and then you choose your specilizations, for the consecutive years. So, Environmental Chemistry and Pharamaceutical Chemistry are actually specilizations. Sorry. lol.
I was a chemistry major, so I may be able to shed some light on this. First of all, I am surprised that environmental chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are separate majors (unless you are not in the U.S. - Things could be different in other countries). Or if they are separate, I am surprised that you don't choose that in your junior or senior year.
I am not sure if environmental chemistry involves going out into the wilderness as much as you think it does. A lot of it could just be sitting by some sort of chromatography equipment running samples that other people give you. Hence, if your school has an "Analytical Chemistry" major, it would provide you with similar training.
I agree that pharmaceutical chemistry, as well as synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry require a lot of hand coordination, which is basically the reason I am not in the field any more. These are the kind of issues that NTs do not expect to be a problem, but actually are a problem for us. Hence, if you want to do pharmaceutical/organic chemistry, coordination will be a big factor unless you can find a non-lab job. And most non-lab jobs, such as teaching or sales, require a lot of social skills.
If I were you I'd choose analytical or environmental chemistry, though if you can get out of chemistry altogether, that might be a good idea.
YOu're definitely right. It has to do with drug development, more than dispensing drugs. Thankyou for your advice. Those two questions, I will take into consideration.
I can't say for sure what was meant by that, but I took it to mean drug development, not being a pharmacist (dispensing drugs). "Drug development" would involve mostly running reactions, as well as purifying and analyzing the products. This involves the same kind of eye-hand type skill as cooking, but it can get quite difficult when you are doing reactions with chemicals that must be kept away from air.
I think a good rule of thumb for deciding whether to study synthetic/pharmaceutical chemistry is the following:
1. Do you like to cook?
2. Can you do well in chemistry class without killing yourself (both general and organic)?
If the answer to both is yes, then you might be a good fit. If the answer to only one is yes, you should consider another major or career.[/quote]
Science and English study all the way. History too but we don't have much of that really Would love to have a period to learn much about WWII.
Looking at actuarial science myself. One of the biggest things is having a strong math background.
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