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Pharmacists

The short answer

This job is expected to meaningfully change. AI can already assist with or automate many of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 944 openings expected each year.

Step 1

Where your job stands

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. That doesn't mean the job goes away—it means more of its tasks are the kind AI can help with.

How much AI could touch this job

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Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a third of this job's tasks.

What this means

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.

Step 2

What AI can and can’t help with in this job

The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.

AI can help with or automate about 75% of the tasks in this job.

Tasks AI can help with or automate

  1. Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  2. Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  3. Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  4. Maintain records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, or registries of poisons, narcotics, or controlled drugs.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  5. Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

Tasks AI can't do much of

  1. Assess the identity, strength, or purity of medications.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  2. Plan, implement, or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  3. Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  4. Prepare sterile solutions or infusions for use in surgical procedures, emergency rooms, or patients' homes.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  5. Offer health promotion or prevention activities, such as training people to use blood pressure devices or diabetes monitors.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

Step 3

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