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He cannot seriously believe a PGY-3 is useful..... ?
He cannot seriously believe a PGY-3 is useful..... ?
Yeah. Yet every so often another pharmacist with more titles than common sense will write an article advocating for a PGY3 while ignoring the real problems facing our profession. At least this guy pays lip service to some arguments against it.Didn't we discuss/beat this with a dead horse last year?
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Yeah. Yet every so often another pharmacist with more titles than common sense will write an article advocating for a PGY3 while ignoring the real problems facing our profession. At least this guy pays lip service to some arguments against it.
I like that he specifically mentions that his PGY2 was not sufficient training to get to the level required by his job, and he only really gained competency after years of experience. I see that as an argument for getting out there and gaining that experience, not one for yet more training at reduced pay.
Hey, I have worked with a PGY2 trained pharmacist that I thought wasn't adequate to staff and verify routine orders. There's a certain level of competency that you just don't get until you are in the trenches handling the routine and complex cases day after day.Yes, but if the surgeons trained with a pharmacist at that level they will be displeased when a newly minted pgy2 shows up and isn't practicing at that level yet.
Lol, how pissed would you be doing 3 years of residency to make 110-115K/year vs a CVS robot making 130K+??
Stuff like this makes me shake my head... Who are they marketing too? The pharmacy world or the outside? Many practitioners and physicians don't even know that pharmacists can do a residency, heck many don't even know it's a 4 year doctorate.
With a PGY3 you've literally done the years and training a physician does with none of the pay and none of the privileges in a practice act. At that point you've done undergrad, 4 years of a doctoral program and 3 years in residency. Unless it pays better, expands a pharmacists scope, or somehow meaningfully advances the profession I see it as overkill and a way to super-specialize for jobs that might not even exist. If you get that much education and still can't change tablets to capsules or practice beyond dispensing then it's not worth it.
Pharmacists and pharmacy organizations should be less focused on pushing residency and PGY3 and focusing more on actual issues like pharmacist reimbursement (provider status in all areas, not just undeserved), expanding scopes of practice, and dealing with market saturation and wage stagnation. If you do 3 years of residency post PharmD and still have less area to practice than a mid-level then just go to PA school, it would be faster and when you're done you can actually modify medications and have a legal scope to practice more meaningfully.
A PGY-3 would signal the end of the profession. I'm not kidding either.
http://www.pharmacytimes.com/contri...clinical-pharmacy-training?utm_source=Informz
He cannot seriously believe a PGY-3 is useful..... ?
PGY 1, 2 and 3 are all a joke. It's a construct designed by pharmacy schools to lure more students (hint: MONEY) in under the false pretense of a 'clinical position'. Clinical pharmacy never took off. NP, PA and RNs fought too much to protect their bread and butter.
I know that I'm a minority thinking the pgy3 isn't a terrible idea. But I think in specific practice environments it does have a place.
My current community hospital has PGY1 residents, and about halfway through the year they're useful for covering 2 staffing shifts every 3rd weekend. Other than that, they honestly increase our workload more than decrease it, on a daily basis. It's nice to offload things like formulary reviews on them, but actually having them on rotation is a huge decrease in overall productivity. Maybe I just utilize them poorly.
Lol, how pissed would you be doing 3 years of residency to make 110-115K/year vs a CVS robot making 130K+??
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There's strawberry Kool-Aid. Then there's the confettiflyer Kool-Aid. I kid. It's a win-win for the employer, no doubt about it.
"Consider our advancement from the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree to the PharmD, from PGY1 to PGY2, and from PGY2 to pharmacy fellowships. To me, PGY3 pharmacy residencies seem like the natural next step in our impressive evolution as a profession."
This sentence should posted to the homepage of every pharmacy school. Then pharmacy students can wonder why the hell they go to pharmacy school and not medical school.
"Consider our advancement from the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree to the PharmD, from PGY1 to PGY2, and from PGY2 to pharmacy fellowships. To me, PGY3 pharmacy residencies seem like the natural next step in our impressive evolution as a profession."
This sentence should posted to the homepage of every pharmacy school. Then pharmacy students can wonder why the hell they go to pharmacy school and not medical school.
Probably way less than you'd make as an rxm.I'm out of the loop when it comes to residencies. So do these pharmacists make significantly more? What about the guy in the article, what do you think his position pays?
Probably way less than you'd make as an rxm.
Sorry I mean the positions they get after their residencies.
Probably way less than you'd make as an rxm.
I'm out of the loop when it comes to residencies. So do these pharmacists make significantly more? What about the guy in the article, what do you think his position pays?
Sorry I mean the positions they get after their residencies.
My post graduate/pre-PGY 1 offer in PA was like ~$50/hr, my post-PGY 1 offer in CA was somewhere between $65-$80/hr. How much of that is attributed to geography is up for debate, but remember geography also guides whether PGY-1 is required, preferred, or not a significant contributing factor.
My post graduate/pre-PGY 1 offer in PA was like ~$50/hr, my post-PGY 1 offer in CA was somewhere between $65-$80/hr. How much of that is attributed to geography is up for debate, but remember geography also guides whether PGY-1 is required, preferred, or not a significant contributing factor.
How long ago did you graduate? I'm sure, if it was long enough, that timing was large factor in that offer as well especially if it was during the "golden age". None of the PGY1's I know of make any significant amount more money than staff.
Let's not forget. The number of residency positions have increased over 50% over that last 5 years (from ~2000 to ~3000). That's around 15-20% of each graduating class. Employers can afford to pay them less because let's face it: there's probably not enough jobs for every resident.
Edit: Now that I think about it, the number of residency positions is increasing much faster than the number of yearly graduating students. With the pharmacy job growth plateauing, it really does seem like residencies (or at least those who "regulate" it) are doing a service to its applicants.
My post graduate/pre-PGY 1 offer in PA was like ~$50/hr, my post-PGY 1 offer in CA was somewhere between $65-$80/hr. How much of that is attributed to geography is up for debate, but remember geography also guides whether PGY-1 is required, preferred, or not a significant contributing factor.
"Consider our advancement from the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree to the PharmD, from PGY1 to PGY2, and from PGY2 to pharmacy fellowships. To me, PGY3 pharmacy residencies seem like the natural next step in our impressive evolution as a profession."
This sentence should be posted to the homepage of every pharmacy school. Then pharmacy students can wonder why the hell they go to pharmacy school and not medical school.
Lol come on dude. It's pretty common knowledge that California inpatient jobs pay substantially higher than any other state in the country, and that the NE is overstated and tends to have lower pay. I know you know this!
The cost of living in California is substantially higher than almost every other place in the country, too.
Specific environments...like what? What kind of environment could possibly be specific and difficult enough to require a PGY3 yet be marketable enough for them to reasonably obtain a job? Enough to sacrifice 3 years for this specialty, mind you.
And yeah...a huge decrease in overall productivity does sound like you might be utilizing them poorly. The residencies I know have them staffing a little more frequently and earlier (basically a weekend off every 2 weeks). Work around 60 hrs a week and often are on-call.
dude - I don't have a residency - yet I have pgy-2's that report to me - I think it is funny.
I also have pgy-1's report to me who have more years of experience.
It is not about the title, it is about the drive and ability
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Lol come on dude. It's pretty common knowledge that California inpatient jobs pay substantially higher than any other state in the country, and that the NE is overstated and tends to have lower pay. I know you know this!
The cost of living in California is substantially higher than almost every other place in the country, too.
As someone who likes living in a city, my rent is going to be about the same, if not more, almost anywhere I live (I've looked).
Not really, I'm paying slightly less than when I lived in Philadelphia/NE corridor.
So I guess a better example is... my offer in the NE was $50/hr, my offer in California was unemployment (or retail, earning much less than inpatient pay). ::
I am reading the boards on reddit and the majority of those pharmacy students are absolutely clueless. If there was a PGY 3 in specialty informatics (on top of the PGY 2), those poor souls would go running on that train. Too bad it's not a gravy train that they make it out to be.
OH oh oh sorry sorry, I mean to say....yes, it's very expensive to live in California 99.999% of my income goes to housing. The other 200% goes to taxes. I'm literally negative 500% vs. living in Nevada.
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Yeah, stay away!
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