Generally, the Pharmacist specialty is fairly evenly split between males and females with 44% of providers reporting their gender as male and 55% reporting as female. People living in California, New York, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Pharmacist providers practice. In all, there are 197,519 registered Pharmacist providers in the United States with over 17,221 of those located in California alone while around 16,527 chose to practice in New York.
Pharmacist providers have been assigned the 183500000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Pharmacist specialists practice in 58 different states/territories and can be categorized into 10 different Pharmacist sub-specialties: Ambulatory Care, Critical Care, Geriatric, Nuclear, Nutrition Support, Oncology, Pediatrics, Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Pharmacotherapy, and Psychiatric.
An individual licensed by the appropriate state regulatory agency to engage in the practice of pharmacy. The practice of pharmacy includes, but is not limited to, assessment, interpretation, evaluation, and implementation, initiation, monitoring or modification of medication and or medical orders; the compounding or dispensing of medication and or medical orders; participation in drug and device procurement, storage, and selection; drug administration; drug regimen reviews; drug or drug-related research; provision of patient education and the provision of those acts or services necessary to provide medication therapy management services in all areas of patient care.