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Pharmacology Careers
By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: March, 1 2010
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Pharmacology Schools
Welcome to Argosy University
Argosy University offers doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degree programs to students through its
seven colleges: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Business, Education, Health Sciences,
Undergraduate Studies, The Art Institute of California and Western State College of Law as well as
certificate programs in many areas.
- Honolulu
- Psychopharmacology (MS)
Whether you want to train for a new career, advance within your current company, or simply learn new skills to stay competitive in today's job market, Allied's distance education training can help!
- Online
- Pharmacy Technician Program
Leave that dead-end job behind with training from Everest College.
- Willowbrook
- Everett
- Melrose Park
- More...
- Diploma - Pharmacy Technician
Heald College provides hands-on educational programs that can help students prepare for careers in the healthcare, business, legal and technology fields.
- Honolulu
- Milpitas
- Stockton
- More...
- Pharmacy Technology
You can complete Southeastern Institute's training programs in as few as 8 months! Receive hands-on instruction from caring instructors with practical experience in the fields in which they teach. Southeastern's small class sizes and individualized attention can be just the help that you need to succeed.
- Charleston
- Charlotte
- Certificate in Pharmacy Technology

much more complicated than that, of course. The clinical trials required to market a drug in the United States with Food and Drug Administration approval are rigorous, take many years and can cost millions of dollars. The pharmacologists who help design the drugs, and then ensure that they are safely metabolized in a variety of people (nursing mothers, children, diabetics, patients with heart problems) are in high demand. The activities of medicines on the human body are often subtle, and it takes a pharmacologist with statistical tools to determine whether the drug (compared to a placebo) actually improved the conditions of patients the way it was intended to.