Careers in health care are experiencing continuing high demand for new recruits as the population ages and many existing professionals reach retirement age. Pharmacists are among those with the brightest employment prospects. Kerry Gallagher, a student at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, told the Boston Channel that like many of her fellow pharmacy majors nationwide, she has the "peace of mind" of knowing she will be able to find work after leaving college. "When I graduate from school I'm not [going] be stuck in the position I find a lot of my friends are in right now," she said. College dean Douglas Pisano added there are "many, many jobs" available for pharmacy graduates - particularly with chair pharmacies and hospitals, who need more pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Michelle Kalis, the college provost, added that demand is so high for the profession that salaries are climbing - as is interest in studying in a field seen as stable during even trying economic times. Other health care careers experiencing high demand for new employees include nursing, radiology and physicians' assistants. Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show there were 243,000 licensed pharmacists working in the US in 2006.  |