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UNIT 5

READING COMPREHENSION

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FRIENDLY TIPS TO A STUDENT TO COME

TO THE TOP IN PHARMACY

Scan the text to obtain some more additional information: friendly tips to those who want to be successful in pharmacy.

These days, being a pharmacist is a highly-sought-after career, partially due to the fact that a typical pharmacist’s starting salary (fresh out of college) is about $90,000 per year. Since pharmacy is a 6-year degree, most pharmacists enter the profession at the age of 24. It is pretty cool when you are 24-years old and you are earning 90 grand per year!

Pharmacists are not supposed to work off-the-books but many do. They get about $40.00 cash per hour if they choose this avenue of compensation. Since many pharmacists work 12-hour shifts, they are pulling down major cash.

This high starting salary attracts many would - be pharmacists. Up until the mid 1990's pharmacy was a 5-year degree, with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. Nowadays, pharmacy is a 6-year degree. You graduate as a Pharm D.

Pharm D's like to be referred to as “Dr.” but they are not medical doctors.

They can not prescribe drugs. They can only dispense exactly what the medical practitioner prescribes if they work in a drugstore.

However, these days pharmacists have expanded clinical horizons. They are not limited to dispensing pills. Many of them work in clinical settings such as hospitals where their expertise on drugs and drug information is sought after by doctors and other medical professionals.

Many Pharm. D's gravitate toward teaching. Another avenue of professional endeavour for pharmacists is working for the drug companies. Working for a drug company as a Pharm. D. is a highly - sought – after - position because of all the perks that come with working for a rich corporation.

Some friendly tips for a higher school student to be efficient in pharmacy:

Take science every year - this will be a factor regarding your entrance application. Lots of kids don't take science in 12th grade because it is not required to graduate but if you want to be a pharmacist you need to take it, anyway. Biology, earth science, chemistry, physics - take them all. If you can handle AP science - all the better.

I hope you like chemistry because if you are fortunate enough to get accepted into pharmacy school, you will be taking tons of chemistry (and labs too)!

You will definitely take organic chemistry, which is very hard. They give you organic chemistry early on to weed out marginal students. If you don't like

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chemistry, forget being a pharmacist. Your life will be a living hell if you don't like (or have an aptitude for) chemistry.

Take math every year - Lots of kids skip math in 12th grade because you don't need it to graduate. BUT taking math every year shows college admission officers that the student is studious and is not afraid of difficult coursework. If you can handle AP, all the better.

Foreign Language - believe it or not, taking a foreign language enhances your chances of getting accepted into pharmacy school (or any good school for that matter).This demonstrates that the student is well rounded and capable of memorizing information. Memorization is important if you want to be a pharmacist.

PHARMACY QUIZ

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UNIT 6

INTERESTING TO KNOW!!!

TEXT.

HOSPITAL

Hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided by physicians, nurses and other professionals.

During the Middle Ages the hospital could serve other functions, such as almshouse for the poor, or hostel for pilgrims. The name comes from Latin hospes (host), which is also the root for the words hotel and hospitality. The modern word "hotel" derives from the French word "hostel" which featured a silent ‘s’ that was eventually removed from the word.

Some patients just come for diagnosis and/or therapy and then leave (outpatients); while others are "admitted" and stay overnight or for several weeks or months (inpatients). Hospitals are usually distinguished from other types of medical facilities by their ability to admit and care for inpatients.

Grammar of the word differs slightly, with American English preferring that someone is "in or at the hospital", while Commonwealth English (including some Canadian English) prefers that someone is "in hospital". Commonwealth English also maintains that "an hospital" is the correct usage in situations where the noun in question must be prefixed with an article (though in practice, it would be highly unusual to hear any speaker of British English say "an hospital" rather than "a hospital" unless his dialect drops initial h), while in American English, "a hospital" is preferred, as the actual pronunciation of the phrase is easier due to the aspirated 'h' with which the word starts.

A physician visiting the sick in a hospital.

German engraving from 1682

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QUOTES:

We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age. -

Thomas Szasz

A Hospital is no place to be sick. - Samuel Goldwyn

The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress. - Michel De Certeau

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. -

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. - Aneurin Bevan

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MODULE 2

TRAINING OF PHARMACISTS

IN GREAT BRITAIN

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PREPARING TO READ…

as you read, notice how:

-the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences takes a keen interest in pharmacy education and training at the undergraduate and preregistration level;

-pharmaceutical scientists deliver continuing professional development items;

-pharmaceutical chemistry is concerned with health care;

-a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry can lead to a wide range of careers in Pharmacy;

-the National Health Service in Great Britain is valued and recognized in the world.

UNIT 1

ACADEMY OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

OF GREAT BRITAIN

Task 1 Run your eyes over the text, noting important information. Refer to a dictionary, if necessary.

TEXT. ACADEMY OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

OF GREAT BRITAIN

The Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain is a not for profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the pharmaceutical sciences within the United Kingdom. The Academy represents academic, industrial and regulatory affairs of pharmaceutical scientists engaged in the training of pharmacists at the undergraduate or pre-registration level as well as pharmaceutical scientists delivering continuing professional development items.

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The Academy thus takes a keen interest in education in all its ramifications and is particularly eager to ensure that pharmacists continue to receive the quality of education and training that allows them to participate in research and development in a variety of sectors: government departments, pharmaceutical businesses and academic establishments.

The Academy welcomes the efforts of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in the educational aspect of its remit and is fully supportive of all endeavors which are aimed at establishing a firmer pharmacy training and education framework.

There appears to be a distinct lack of detail on how the different aspirations within the document will be achieved with respect to pharmacists wishing to take up continuing professional development activities. We feel that within the continuing professional development arena, robust systems to deliver a quality assured curriculum complete with well thought out assessment procedures, so embedded, may be lacking as a comprehensive continuing professional development climate is still in development in the United Kingdom and as such the Academy asks the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain to give due consideration to education and training in the continuing professional development area.

A further issue that causes the Academy a great deal of concern is the implied notion that pharmacists are only practicing their profession when involved in pharmacy activities associated with direct patient contact. The Academy asserts that pharmacists who work as industrial, regulatory affairs or academic pharmaceutical scientists are practicing their profession in the area of medicines discovery, development and licensing.

TOPICAL VOCABULARY

Task 2 Work out the meanings of the words, and memorize them:

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UNDERSTANDING DETAILS AND DISCUSSION …

Task 3 Pick up new words from the text. Give their definitions and learn to use them.

Task 4 Use the unknown words in the sentences of your own to show you understand them.

SKIMMING FOR INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION …

GOING BEYOND THE TEXT...

Task 9 Develop an 8-10- line dialogue based on the text.

Task 10 Keep talking … Use the unit vocabulary to construct a short dialogue with your partner.

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UNIT 2

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, SCOTLAND, UK.

CHEMISTRY - PHARMACEUTICAL

Task 1 Read the text and get ready to discuss it. Use your dictionary to look up any new words.

TEXT. WHY STUDY PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY AT

DUNDEE?

Pharmaceutical Chemistry is concerned with health care - the design, chemical synthesis and testing of new medicines. It is a practical science at the interface between Chemistry and Biology that includes modern computational methods. We live in a new era with detailed knowledge of genes and the abilities to determine three-dimensional molecular structures and to create complex molecules. Pharmaceutical Chemistry utilises these facets to identify drug targets against diseases such as cancer, diabetes, malaria and AIDS and to design and create new cures and safer, more effective drugs.

The Faculty of Life Sciences is superbly placed to deliver this degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. The University of Dundee's world-renowned research activities in molecular and cell biology and drug design mean that students are taught by a team of experts who work at the cutting edge of their field. Pharmaceutical Chemistry is available as a three-, fouror five-year BSc Honours degree programme. Between Levels 3 and 4 there is an optional industrial placement at a major pharmaceutical or biotechnology company. This provides you with a unique opportunity for work experience with a leading biotechnology company, or one of several major multinational pharmaceutical companies with which the University of Dundee has close links.

A degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry can lead to a wide range of careers including research and development in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries; chemical, pharmaceutical or biomedical research in universities or research institutes; teaching in further or higher education; scientific publishing; scientific patenting or further professional education and training.

The interdisciplinary nature of Pharmaceutical Chemistry also provides generic skills that are applicable to many careers, including management in high technology and conventional industries.

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