Table 2 Distribution of career pathway choices of pharmacy interns
Career Category | Career | N (%) |
|---|---|---|
Clinical pharmacy | Clinical pharmacy specialist | 109 (24) |
Ambulatory care clinical pharmacist | 10 (2.2) | |
General clinical pharmacist | 9 (2) | |
Academia | Academia: Clinical practice | 55 (12.1) |
Academia: Pharmaceutical sciences | 18 (4) | |
Academia: Economic, social, administrative sciences | 5 (1.1) | |
Pharmaceutical company and industry | Pharmaceutical company: Sales & marketing | 63 (13.9) |
Pharmaceutical company: Product specialist | 41 (9) | |
Corporate management | 30 (6.6) | |
Pharmaceutical industry: Research and development | 16 (3.5) | |
Pharmaceutical company: Supply chain | 7 (1.5) | |
Health-system pharmacy | Health-system pharmacy: Inpatient | 24 (5.3) |
Health-system pharmacy: Outpatient | 17 (3.7) | |
Health-system pharmacy: Drug information | 5 (1.1) | |
Health-system pharmacy: Compounding | 3 (0.7) | |
Community pharmacy | Community pharmacist | 18 (4) |
Community pharmacy management | 6 (1.3) | |
Other | Research laboratory | 2 (0.4) |
Pharmacovigilance, pharmacoepidemiology | 2 (0.4) | |
Military | 2 (0.4) | |
Pharmacy benefit management | 1 (0.2) | |
Will not work in pharmacy/Change career | 9 (2) | |
Indecisive | 2 (0.2) |