PHARMACY
PHARMACIST / IN
As specialists and academic health professionals, pharmacists are entitled to dispense medicinal products. In addition to the dispensing of pharmaceuticals, you deal with the testing, manufacture and development of these. Advising consumers is also part of the pharmacists’ field of activity. In the five-year pharmacy course, knowledge of physiology, chemistry, galenics, pharmacology, biochemistry, biology, analysis and quality assurance is acquired. Fields of application are the classic public pharmacy, hospital pharmacies, health insurance companies, administrative activities in health areas and in the pharmaceutical industry.
PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANT (PTA)
PTAs are part of the pharmaceutical staff and support the pharmacist in their work. In Germany, the job title usually takes two and a half years of training followed by a six-month internship in a public pharmacy and is also recognized by the state. PTAs are allowed to carry out pharmaceutical activities under the supervision of a pharmacist. An important task is customer and patient care and education about the correct use of the products. The areas of application do not differ from those of the pharmacists.