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Pharmacist vs Pharmacologist
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Pharmacist vs Pharmacologist
Overview: Pharmacist
Pharmacy
- Health professionals
- Experts on medication
- Pharm.D.
The branch of the health sciences dealing with the preparation, dispensing, and proper utilization of drugs
Trained to:
- Follow the effectiveness of many medications
- Manage possible side effects
- Verify adherence to treatment.
- Educate and advise physicians, nurses, and other health professionals on medication therapy decisions”
Pharmacology
More on what they do or do not do
Overview: Pharmacologist
A Pharmacologist does not work with tablets, pills, or directly fulfilling patient needs. A Pharmacologist is not qualified to advise patients concerning the medications they use.
- Scientists
- Bachelor's degree in pharmacology, masters, Ph.D. / Post-doc.
Table: Comparison
-Ology is the suffix for "science of".
The science that deals with the origin, nature, chemistry, effects,
and uses of drugs; (it includes pharmacognosy, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, and toxicology).
Trained to discover:
- The molecular site of action of a drug
- The changes caused by a drug in the normal function of tissues and organs,
- The relationship between the dose of a drug and its effect,
- How do drugs produce their effects, and
- What happens to drugs once they enter the body?
A pharmacist is to a pharmacologist
what an anatomist is to a doctor,
or what a scientist is to a clinician
One's doing the science (behind the drugs) while the other is interacting with the patients