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Medical Forum / General / Pharmacy / January 2005any pharmacy students here?
i see lots of topics on pre-pharmacy but where are the pharmacy students hiding? where to you go to school? do you like it? what is your GPA? what kind of pharmacist do you want to be? I am a nursing student, but my teachers are always trying to get me to go into Pharmacy. But I want to get my masters and teach Bioethics. GPA is 95--115% (magna cum laude) It just depends. Eventually my brain will explode. I am a pre-pharmacy student and I'm looking for a group of sorts as well. I know it's going to be tough and I need support! LOL If you find a group, let me know and I'll be happy to join. > i see lots of topics on pre-pharmacy but where are the pharmacy > students hiding? where to you go to school? do you like it? what is > your GPA? what kind of pharmacist do you want to be? Thank you, all, for starting this important thread on pharmacy students. I have been a practicing pharmacist since 1976: twelve years in community practice and the rest (sinc 1993) in hospital practice. My one observation about pharmacy over the years is that while it has held out the promise of clinical practice satisfaction, and has just now (with the arrival of the universal Pharm.D. degree) institutionalized the tools for this kind of practice, current reality is far behind the promise. From what I can see, community pharmacy is still struggling to achieve strong clinical involvement, and other settings still stick the pharmacist's nose into handwritten medication orders. Perhaps now, with the OBRA counseling requirements, the concept of pharmaceutical care, the federal recognition of pharmacists as healthcare providers,the Medicare law requiring medication managers, and the arrival of registered pharmacy technicians, chain management will realize that they have to give third-party and customer relations problems to a few lead technicians, and let the pharmacist do clinical work almost exclusively. Also, it is imperative that handwritten prescriptions become a thing of the past. > I am a pre-pharmacy student and I'm looking for a group of sorts as > well. I know it's going to be tough and I need support! LOL [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > students hiding? where to you go to school? do you like it? what is > > your GPA? what kind of pharmacist do you want to be? Paul said: I have been a practicing pharmacist since 1976: twelve years in community practice and the rest (sinc 1993) in hospital practice. Compared to retail and hospital, which do you prefer and why? 15 mos ago, I made the switch to ownership. I make crap right now compared to the salaries of employees. But I love it. I will be ahead in the long run financially, and spiritually, because I control my destiny, and am not under the whim of some corporate umbrella...and I love it!! Its quite a financial and time commitment, but well worth it! I put all that money I made workin for someone else into being my own boss.... DGM > Paul said: > I have been a practicing pharmacist since 1976: twelve years in > community > practice and the rest (sinc 1993) in hospital practice. > Compared to retail and hospital, which do you prefer and why? I am a student Shenandoah University's Pharmacy School in Virginia. I will graduate this May. I do like pharmacy school although I am glad it is almost over :-) I am planning to start off my career in community pharmacy and have already accepted a postition with CVS. Why would anyone want to work for CVS. You are just a tool for them to force you to be a robot. Don;t think you will be able to counsel any patients or have any physician respect your opionions. Don't be swayed by the $. That gets old fast. Just ask grads from a few years ago who work for CVs. Most hate it. Why did you go to school for 6 years? Make a difference in our profession. You can;t do that at CVS jp rph I am working for CVS to pay off the $120,000 of debt that I have accumulated during my 6 years of school. I went to college so that I could learn about something that interests me and so that I could make a better life for myself. Not everyone is lucky enough to not have to worry about money especially when they didn't grow up with it. I unfortunately did not have parents who could help out with paying for college. I have a feeling that you never had to worry about money. It is up to the pharmacist to counsel patients, not the company. A good pharmacist will make time to counsel, no matter who they work for. Pharmacists who care about their patients and work for CVS have put together blood pressure, diabetes, and other health screenings for their patients. A high volume retail store is an opportunity to reach a large multitude of patients. Just because I work for CVS for a few years to pay off some bills, does not mean that I am indebted to them for the rest of my life. I am young and I have plenty of time to take advantage of all of the opportunities that are out there for me. good luck in fantasy town more fun than you are having on cynical lane >Why would anyone want to work for CVS. You are just a tool for them to force >you to be a robot. Don;t think you will be able to counsel any patients or [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Make a difference in our profession. You can;t do that at CVS >jp rph ==================== Come on... I am now retired but spend most of my career in Retail Management with a chain...both in store and corporate.....(Food./Drug combo) I do not have a high regard for CVS.... . BUT I do not think you have any understanding of how or why Retail Pharmacy exists..... Bob Griffiths BTW... I think Money is not a good reason to take a job... but I also think that more money is better then less.... i have practived community (i don;t call it retail) for over 30 years and am one of the most respected pharmacists in my state. Past pres of state association, frequent speaker on the possibilities of community pharmacy, pharmacy student preceptor for 25 years, adjunct faculty appointment to one of the premier pharmacy schools in the us so i do know and the reason i don;t think it is all about the money is because i continually hear from other pharmacists how they hate their jop. It just so happens that my staff love their work because they get to do diabetes education, smoking cessation, blood pressures, cholesterols screenings, etc. as part of their job description and it actually happens jp rph If there is such a high demand for pharmacists, why are there so few programs available to help financially, for someone willing to enter the feild? I hear so many people talk about having high debt upon graduation. Is promising to work for a company the only way to fund an education these days? Not that there's anything wrong with that. At least you're guaranteed a job when you graduate. Unlike some fields who have to get interim jobs. As for working just for the money, I thought that's what most people do. LOL. Having a job you like is a perk to me unfortuantely. When you do what you like, that's a hobby. Get paid for it, it becomes a job. My point was not that money is not important...I have been fighting for years to get pharmacists paid for their profesional services. the point is there is little difference is take home pay and amazing take home satisfaction when working at a job for 90K when you are unhappy and working for 80K at a place you are happy with. Pharmacists working in any other area besides community know this and have made that choice. I just hate it that the chains are enticing young pharmacists with $ and cars and then destroying our professional that I love so much. jp rph I see what you're saying JP. And thank you for all the hard work you have done for the field. You come across as someone very passionate about what you believe in and I respect that. I guess it just depends on the person. Some people don't mind bringing home more money from a place they are unhappy with because that's all they see it as - a job. But yes, it does make it more difficult for those who are there because of the love. How safe would it be to obtain Omeprazole from India, rather than taking Prilosec OTC? Thanks I'm Pharmacy student in Athens, Greece. Feel free to make contact with me, I'd love to share my knowledge with other students of pharmacy or related sciences. <E-MAIL: google_groups@ruslanet.cjb.net > |
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