When going to school to become a pharmacist, will I not only learn about prescription meds….?
No, not unless you go to school in China. Vitamins is SOOOO basic to what you’ll really be learning about; the professors dont even want to waste their time with vitamins. Vitamins are described in any GOOD first semester, intro bio class. Herbs- learn that on your own. Unless your homeopathic clinic, nobody is going to ask you for ancient Spanish roots to control their blood sugar. What you SHOULD know is where they are derived from. That will be useful and many people will respect you for that. In many professors minds, its better to know where they came from rather than another root to use when you already have a perfectly fine drug on the market. P.S. If you want to go homeopathic, don’t go to an America school-we haven’t caught up yet.
If you go to an accredited university for a bachelor’s degree in pharmacology or in some sort of option for pharmacology, you’re going to be taking a LOT of biology and chemistry courses which will not only go in depth about medications, but how each medication acts on the body and human anatomy. It’s not simple if you aren’t good at science. It’s not going to be, “this drug does this”, it’s more like…cis-diaminodichloroplatinum(II) (or cisplatin) is a chemotherapeutic drug that acts on DNA by crosslinking with guanine bases and interacting with phenylalanine-37 to pull apart the helix ultimately causing apoptosis. Hope that helps.
