As some of hospital only appoints PharmD student for clinical pharmacist or clinical pharmacologist job role . M.pharm students can get the same?
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Good point! Ideally they both have studied for 6 years each -so they should be put at par.
Yes, M.Pharm students can get the role of Clinical Pharmacist, but the preference in many hospitals is often given to Pharm.D graduates, especially for clinical-facing roles. However, this is not a strict rule everywhere.
Pharm.D is a 6-year professional doctorate with 1 full year of clinical internship, which gives students hands-on hospital experience.
M.Pharm in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy (especially with hospital exposure or internships) is also eligible for clinical pharmacist roles.
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Pharm D graduates are preferred for clinical pharmacist or clinical roles because the pharm D is a hospital - focused , patient -care training degree that includes clinical rotations , therapeutic decision making and TDM and one - year clinical internship . This training gives pharm D students to work directly with doctors , review treatments , preventing medication errors , patient counselling - this skills are not covered in M . Pharm , which is more research and formulation - based . Hence , Pharm - D fits perfectly into bedside clinical practice .
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Actually no. As both of these would share a different field of work. As a Pharm D degree holder would not have the same knowledge or industrial exposure as an M.pharm (pharmaceutics or QA) would have and also him/her would not have the clinical knowledge of the Pharm.D holder. So yeah, one is still a doctorate degree while the other one is a master in a specific field.
Informative. But in my opinion, the M pharmacy is much more focused on the core pharma if you consider domains like QA and pharmaceutics. Even the M pharm in Cology is more like focused on CRO, clinical research, and all. To become a clinical pharmacist in a hospital, Pharm D is worth watching.
We should understand a tiny difference here. B.Pharm followed by M.Pharm is two seperate degrees which is more of industry focused and Pharm.D is clinical based, which includes more of Medication therapy management, Patient care and Clinical Pharmacy.
PharmDs are given clinical exposure from the 2nd year of the course. They gain hands on experience in Medication Review, Reconciliation, TDM, Dosage calculations, Educating patients, ADR monitoring and reporting, Drg interaction checks, etc. So, I think they are the best fit for clinical roles. MPharm Pharmacy Practice can be considered but I personally don’t think they are given such clinical exposure 
MPharm are very much industry friendly.