As a Specialist Pharmacist, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• apply context specific clinical competences
• apply person-centred care
• botany
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• contribute to continuity of health care
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• microbiology-bacteriology
• pharmacognosy
• pharmacotherapy
• promote inclusion
• provide pharmaceutical advice
• provide specialist pharmaceutical advice
• provide specialist pharmaceutical care
• provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
• review patient's medical data
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• work in multidisciplinary health teams

More generally, a specialist pharmacist is also versed in:

• adhere to organisational guidelines
• apply organisational techniques
• communicate in healthcare
• comply with legislation related to health care
• deal with emergency care situations
• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• educate on the prevention of illness
• empathise with the healthcare user
• follow clinical guidelines
• human anatomy
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• inorganic chemistry
• interact with healthcare users
• listen actively
• manage healthcare users' data
• organic chemistry
• pharmaceutical chemistry
• pharmaceutical industry
• pharmaceutical technology
• pharmacokinetics
• pharmacology
• pharmacy law
• physics
• provide health education
• provide medication information
• respond to changing situations in health care
• toxicology
• work in a multicultural environment in health care

It also helps to know the following:

• prescribe medication
• conduct health related research
• homeopathy
• maintain medical devices
• medical devices
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care