What PharmD’s say about their education
being prepared for a “job” that doesn’t exist… and NOT PREPARED for the “job” that does exist ?
I begged my pharmacy school (a relatively new one) to spend some actual practical time on drug interactions, high doses, overdoses, and basic toxicology. They just weren’t interested! One professor said that they were considering an interaction elective!!!! An effing ELECTIVE for an important part of our job! RIDICULOUS!
Modern pharmacy schools are obsessed with turning us into mini-doctors instead of the “drug experts” that they kept claiming we would be upon graduation! Myself and a number of students were quite vocal about our rudimentary instruction in drugs, while we spent hours upon hours learning to diagnose diseases when no one was gonna ask us to so in the real world!
Couple that BS with working at break neck speed or being told that they’ll replace you with someone faster…….it’s a recipe for disaster!
we spent so much time basically triaging imaginary patients and developing detailed care plans it was ridiculous. But when I’d say, “are we gonna cover proper dosing, or adverse drug events, etc,” they say, “well that stuff is really learned in practice later on.” WTF?
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