also, rampage is from memphis. that should be reason enough

 

What is the post placement success, commitment? Why those two really for PharmD?

 

i was gonna ask the same question. i'm doing biochemistry right now and might go to pharmacy school after i get my BS.

 

I'm sorry but pharmacy is one of the biggest BS jobs when it comes to medicine. If you honestly like counting pills all day at your local CVS then by all means go for it. But from what my pharmacist friends say, its not worth it. Sure you have a nice starting salary ~80k but it won't go much past 90-100k max so there isn't much room for improvement.

Real pharmacy requires you to get your PhD. as well (4 more years of school) . Then you'll actually be able to work for pharmaceutical companies performing research, though with the recent layoff's good luck with that

Not that I'm trying to be harsh or anything; I'm just relaying what I've been told by many pharmacists / Doctors. Plus, probably within my lifetime, pharmacists will probably be replaced with computer counting machines.

 

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I think that you have it all mixed up, pharmacists don't count anything. I am a pharmacy technician at Walgreens and I do all the counting. Pharmacists simply review whatever pharm. techs do. We basically do all the dirty work, and they make sure we put the we filled it with the right drug and give people advice on what to take or w/e questions they have. We already have counting machines that count meds, and computers check everything that we do, so robots definitely won't replace pharmacists or techs. As far as salary goes, the woman that taught me about pharmacy was 26, she was promoted to pharmacy manager and makes 150k a year and starting salary out of school is 100k around Chicago. I guess it depends on location

 

Pharmacists make easily 6 figures. My pharmacist just showed me his 2 paycheck for 2 weeks work. It was 9.5k after taxes. Granted he's been this since the early 90s. What pdj is true. A pharmacist doesn't do much but take doctor calls and makes sure what the techs counted and typed up was done correct.

 

Do be frank, all the current old people need to pass away before robots replace your position. They are simply too old to accept a new way of life basically where everything is computerized. We on the other hand are the first real generation of main stream computers and I would bet by the time I am in my glory years, I will be going to CVS, typing my name in, getting my pills complete with a list of possible complications from my meds.

Administration is different. A regular pharmacist won't see past 100k or so. No offense by why they get paid that much is beyond me?

 

I honestly don't know why they get paid so much either, I consider it to be one of the easiest job that pays big money.

 

Hmm... that's strange. I've got a LOT of friends/relatives that are PharmD's. None of them work for a pharmacy. Instead they work for companies like BMS in QA and research. Another works for a major hospital in Boston.

 

My overal GPA was a 2.94 with a 3.2 in the sciences. I am a bit of a special case though. I had to prove myself to be competitive with such a low GPA. I got my B.S. degree, but then went on to get my M.S. degree with a 4.0, so my entire graduate program I had a 4.0 GPA. Along with a host of volunteer work and experience in not just pharmacy but medicine in general. I am also about to publish a research paper in toxicology as well. I really had to prove myself that my overall GPA misrepresented my capabilities, and sure enough hard work in grad school paid off!

These are the only two schools that I got accepted to.

Wow. I don't even know how to respond to that. Do your research on the field, then come back and voice your opinion. If a pharmacist's job was to waste all those years of education and just hand out drugs at a retail pharmacy...well then, not too many ppl would go down that road. Having a Pharm. D allows you to work in several different settings. You're only speaking of the retail side, where old pharmacists wind up lol. Besides, I have my Master's degree which enables me to work in the research side of pharmaceuticals as well. kadeshpa seems to understand that the pharmacy industry goes far beyond CVS and Walgreens, or even retail. You all keep talking about the retail side of pharmacy, maybe because you are unaware of the other jobs a Pharm. D can get you? I don't know.

Here are some links to various Pharm. D. jobs that I just pulled up through google, and did little searching for.:

http://www.shsinc.com/search/pharm.d._jobs.htm
http://www.usc.edu/schools/pharmacy/pharmd/careers/

Many of the jobs you haven't even heard about or know to exist because it doesn't relate to you. You don't see these people. We all go to Wal-mart, CVS and Walgreens and see pharmacists regularly at these retail settings. Just be aware that a doctorate of pharmacy degree doesn't mean your only job option is to apply to Wal-Mart and let a computer and tech do all the work for you as your education slowly wastes away.