ACADEMIC SKILLS

Academic Skills for Higher Education

Academic Skills for Higher Education

The pharmaceutical industry

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most dynamic and vast industries of the world. It is the industry that is responsible for blessing the world with medicines and treatment to fatal diseases and illnesses. Previously, the concept of pharmaceutical medicine was limited to laboratories and scientific researches but with time, it spread to the general public. This led to the formation of the industry and now, it has expanded beyond imagination. Daily, countless medicines are produced that save thousands of lives. Scientists work day and night for leading companies of the industry to make new and improved drugs and medicine.

The importance of medicine

I wish to pursue a career in the field of pharmaceuticals and one of the key reasons why I wish to do so is because I understand the importance of medicine to a human body. Medicines are the key to survival for a person who is suffering from a certain illness or problem. Consider a time when we fall ill. We have fever and we do not feel like we are strong enough to do anything or to even function. We use medicines at such stages to boost the system and recover from the illness. Now take such an illness and magnify it a hundred times. That is how a fatal illness affects a person and such a person does not even have the strength to walk or move. Such a person does not have the strength to move or do anything at all. This is where pharmaceuticals help. These medicines help such people fight these illnesses and diseases and in most cases, the person fights untimely death and recovers to full health. This is the main reason why I wish to pursue a career in this field because I realize that this is a noble field to enter and a career in this field would mean that I would be able to contribute towards the noble cause of saving lives.

History of medicine

Organic chemical industry is the one that actually led to the creation and advent of pharmaceutical products. One of the first attempts was to "mimic" the therapeutic effects of quinine, an active ingredient against malaria and therefore beneficial for millions of patients around the world. The model of pharmaceutical-chemical industry formation can be structured in four stages:

discovery more or less intentional activity of a certain physiological chemical

the preparation of variants clinical trials on animals and then on men

large-scale production

Public sales

Importance of academic and professional skills

To survive in higher education, a person needs to have good personal skills. A person needs to be extremely attentive, smart, focused and vigilant. In a university, a person with skills that help him analyze events quickly has much better chances of survival. A person who is attentive can easily follow lectures and gain informative knowledge from the lectures (Stanley, 2004, pp 87). The person would spend less time making notes and more time asking important ...