Resume Skills and Keywords for Pharmacist

Pharmacists are vital members of the healthcare team, assisting patients in obtaining the prescriptions they require to feel better, manage a chronic disease, or simply stay healthy. Pharmacists work alongside physicians to ensure that patients receive the medication and dosage that their doctor has ordered. Patients are also educated on the proper use, side effects, and hazards of their prescriptions so that they can safely follow their doctor's orders. Pharmacists may also offer pharmacology programming intended at training other healthcare workers while working in a larger institution (such as a hospital or health system).

Skills required for a Pharmacist role:

  • Retail Pharmacy Operations 
  • Drug Utilisation Review 
  • Vendor Negotiations 
  • Patient Counselling
  • Final Quality Assurance Checks 
  • Pharmaceutical Research 
  • Accuracy 
  • Communication Skills 
  • Proofreading 
  • Interpersonal Skills 
  • Management Skills 
  • Multitasking 
  • Patient Counseling

What recruiters look for in a Pharmacist’s  resume: 

  • Skilled at reviewing and interpreting physician orders and detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
  • Ability to dispense medications by compounding, packaging, and labelling pharmaceuticals.

What can make your Pharmacist’s  resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience and background in pharma

  • A licensed pharmacist with experience in delivering high-quality services in retail setting. Winner of Best Employee Award. Strong understanding of the usage and side effects of drugs. 

Targeted job description 

  • Provide pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counselling patients on drug therapies.
  • Develop hospital staff’s pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs and training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
  • Comply with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by monitoring nursing unit inspection.

Related academic background:

  • Bachelors in Pharmacy |  Thapar Medical Institute, Chandigarh | 2017
  • Higher Secondary |  Delhi Public School, Hoshiarpur | 2014 

Sample Resume of Pharmacist in Text Format

TARADEEP DHILLON 

Pharmacist 

9955444499 | taradeepdhillon@gmail.com 

Linkedin.com/in/taradeep-dhillon | 78/6, Gali No. 6, Gautam Nagar, Chandigarh 

SUMMARY

A licensed pharmacist with experience in delivering high-quality services in a retail setting. Winner of Best Employee Award. Strong understanding of the usage and side effects of drugs. 

RELATED ACADEMIC BACKGROUND  

  • Bachelors in Pharmacy |  Thapar Medical Institute, Chandigarh | 2017
  • Higher Secondary |  Delhi Public School, Hoshiarpur | 2014 

EXPERIENCE / INTERNSHIP 

Hospital Pharmacist

Gangaram Hospital, Chandigarh | Jul 2018 - Present 

  • Screened prescriptions to make sure they are free of any error. 
  • Advised patients on appropriate drug usage and the best way of taking medication. 
  • Coordinated with other medical professionals when patients had adverse reaction to prescribed 
  • medicines. 
  • Mentored pharmacy technicians and entry level candidates. 
  • Achieved a revenue increase of 14%, as a key member of the pharmacy team. 

Hospital Pharmacist

IK Hospital, Chandigarh | Jun 2017 – Jul 2018 

  • Assisted in monitoring and recording stock inventory, and handled purchasing and regulation. 
  • Maintained a specialized drug registry for inventory control. 
  • Regularly updated the database management system used in the hospital. 
  • Increased discount rate from 8% to 15% with a key supplier. 

PROJECTS 

Study for Assessment of knowledge, compliance and behaviour of diabetes patients 

  • Determined the impact of diabetes on the daily work of patients. 
  • Conducted a descriptive study at out-patient clinics of three family health care centers in Punjab. Surveys were also conducted. 
  • Documented the findings in a report; waiting for approval for publishing in the scientific journal of India

PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENTS 

Research 

  • Assisted college professor with his research for publishing a thesis in National Conference of Applied 
  • Biology and Pharmacy, 2017 
  • Delivered a research article for IEEE April edition, 2017 
  • Wrote an article of dealing with side effects of drugs, published in the International Journals of Biology, 2017 

Certifications 

  • Certification in sterile product preparation from IK Institute, Chandigarh 

SKILLS ( TECHNOLOGY / FUNCTIONAL ) 

  • Retail Pharmacy Operations 
  • Drug Utilisation Review 
  • Vendor Negotiations 
  • Patient Counselling
  • Final Quality Assurance Checks 
  • Pharmaceutical Research 

EXTRA-CURRICULAR 

Volunteering 

  • Taught underprivileged children as a member of Sparsh NGO from 2015 to 2018. 
  • Volunteered for an awareness program on World Health Day, 2018.