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I recently went to pharmacy career expo in California. I talked to all of the hospital recruiters. Apparently most of the recruiters aren't considering hiring PGY1 residents anymore. The hospitals are getting enough PGY2 residents applying that they don't usually won't consider PGY1 residents unless they did their residency at the same institution they are applying for.
I was discussing clinical jobs with a recruiter at a popular hospital and she was even saying that they were primarily considering people that went beyond the PGY2 residency and did a fellowship.
What the heck is the point of all this extra education? Does this really benefit the pharmacy profession if recruiters keep using these things to exclude potential applicants? 3 years of post-graduate pharmacy education is equivalent to some physician residencies, but I doubt we will ever get compensated for all this extra-schooling.
PGY1 residencies are already getting cut-throat to obtain and I can't imagine how hard it is to get a PGY2 residency. One recruiter said they had 250 applicants for 2 PGY1 residency spots. This is getting ridiculous. Many of the brightest people in my class didn't even get one interview for a residency.
Thoughts?
I was discussing clinical jobs with a recruiter at a popular hospital and she was even saying that they were primarily considering people that went beyond the PGY2 residency and did a fellowship.
What the heck is the point of all this extra education? Does this really benefit the pharmacy profession if recruiters keep using these things to exclude potential applicants? 3 years of post-graduate pharmacy education is equivalent to some physician residencies, but I doubt we will ever get compensated for all this extra-schooling.
PGY1 residencies are already getting cut-throat to obtain and I can't imagine how hard it is to get a PGY2 residency. One recruiter said they had 250 applicants for 2 PGY1 residency spots. This is getting ridiculous. Many of the brightest people in my class didn't even get one interview for a residency.
Thoughts?