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Just wondering, how many of the pharmacists/pharm students on here have gone on to med school or are considering going?
My boyfriend has been a pharmacist since he was 22 years old and he is going to go to Med school. Two of my classmates flat out told me they are going to med school after they graduate pharmacy school. I am sure there is more.
I personally would have gone to med school instead of pharmacy if the sight of blood didn't make me turn pale white and faint. LOL...
This is one of the few things in life that I am absolutely sure I do not want to pursue. I am not afraid of needles, just blood or bodily fluids.
I worked with a pharmacist that went back to med school after working as a pharmacist for a few years. Now that's dedication.
Just wondering, how many of the pharmacists/pharm students on here have gone on to med school or are considering going?
JDUB? I think he's currently in med school.i think there is poster here who is in the process of doing it
there was 2 rph professors at my school who also went to med school
i have thought about it, but imo its too late in the game for me now to make another 7yr commitment
JDUB? I think he's currently in med school.
I might go for it. Depends on what the job market is like when I graduate. If I don't match into a residency or find a job that I will be happy with, I might apply to med school. Not sure if I can get in though
Just wondering, how many of the pharmacists/pharm students on here have gone on to med school or are considering going?
Do you have unlimited funds?
Do you have unlimited funds?
Some people are just career students. I personally hate our education system from K12 all the way through grad school. Once I get my pharmD, I am DONE. Oh and I hate needles too so no med school for me. Hate blood too so bye bye dental school. When I got blood drawn right before undergrad the nurse accidentally poked herself with the needle AFTER she took my blood. She was so nonchalent about it, I would have FLIPPED and threw myself out a window. I don't like having that kind of risk at work. I saw a TV commercial about a non needle flu shot or something like that for customers who don't like needles, what about a no-needle flu shot for a pharmacist who doesn't like needles! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I think being the poker may even be worse than getting poked. I don't want to find out. I want to be the pharmacist who works 50 floors down in a basmeent of a mail order pharmacy.
You do realize that if you plan to head into retail pharmacy as your posts indicate, most employers mandate that you are immunization certified these days? And the trend is increasingly towards not just flu shots, but shingles/hep/every shot possible...
Doctors also never administer shots, that's what the nurses are for.
And as for blood, once in a while, you'll have someone bleed after their flu shot. Not to mention, if you help someone perform blood glucose testing, you'll need to be close in encounter with their blood, albeit with gloves.
I never wanted to do Pharmacy. In fact, I didn't want to have anything to do with the medical line. But I was forced into Pharmacy by my Dad. Now I that I've been working for four years, I feel that I love Medicine so much that I want to practice it. I've just taken BCPS as a backup. But I'm determined to go back to school to do Medicine next year.
How do parents force an adult to do something? As soon as I was 18 and out from under their roof with my own job to pay for my own care, what leverage do they have...
We'll pay for your college if you do [blank]. Pretty decent leverage if you ask me.
We'll pay for your college if you do [blank]. Pretty decent leverage if you ask me.
If you're going to a field where grad school is needed, you can play the system. Just get parents to pay your bachelors in biology or something. Then when you apply to law/medical/pharmacy/whatever school, be like, "Just kidding, I decided to be [what you want], but thanks for paying for undergrad."
How do parents force an adult to do something? As soon as I was 18 and out from under their roof with my own job to pay for my own care, what leverage do they have...
If you were Asian, you would know. Asian parents will tell you what they want you to do EXACTLY and you do it.
But what if you don't do it. What would they do if you brought home a big black guy with a do-rag on?
I never wanted to do Pharmacy. In fact, I didn't want to have anything to do with the medical line. But I was forced into Pharmacy by my Dad. Now I that I've been working for four years, I feel that I love Medicine so much that I want to practice it. I've just taken BCPS as a backup. But I'm determined to go back to school to do Medicine next year.
I was brought up with very strict parents. They told me if you want a good life, if you want to be successful then you better get perfect grades. So I grew up getting perfect grades. It wasn't so bad it was just kinda tiring at times. Then when I was in college, I had NO idea what I wanted to do...my parents told me MEDICAL FIELD is the way to go. You must do any profession in the MEDICAL field. I didn't know what I want to do and I still don't know! So I will like...Okay, I guess I'll try it. If I had a real passion, I would do my real PASSION, but I don't. So I am trying what they want me to do. I am very good at math and science, but do I enjoy pharmacy? It's okay. LOL...
If I brought home a black guy I would be shot.
I have no idea why anyone would want to start from scratch after finishing a 4 year professional degree. Why would you want to be a scrub for another 7+ years?
Ugh. Don't do it.
What type of racist ideologies are you guys practicing on this post?
If I brought home a black guy I would be shot.
She's saying her parents are very traditional and only want her to date within her ethnicity. Older asians (not all but many) can be a bit . . . discriminatory. SCH would receive a lambasting if she brought home a black dude.
Sounds like poor parenting to me.
I think this scene in fight club is very poignant for this thread. The question is, "What did you want to be?".
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[/QUOTE]What type of racist ideologies are you guys practicing on this post?
If I brought home a black guy I would be shot.
If you were Asian, you would know. Asian parents will tell you what they want you to do EXACTLY and you do it.
Doctors also never administer shots, that's what the nurses are for.
When I was in pre-pharmacy, I had an Asian classmate whose parents demanded that he go into engineering, and he'd failed chemistry several times. Folks, let him be a truck driver, elementary schoolteacher, accountant, etc. - what he wants to do! That's what you came to America for in the first place, if you think about it.
Actually not exactly. The goal of Asians coming here is usually to succeed, not for freedom of doing whatever. And there is the concept of "face". To let your kid become an non-intellectual is consider a disgrace. It's seen as a failure of both the kid and the parents, and brings shame to the family name. So failure is not an option. Kids are pretty much given the choice of succeed or die trying. Hard to understand and very harsh, I know, but compared to kids in Asia, the amount of education/drilling we got is already getting off easy.
they have it easier in asia, you go to your field right after high school, that cuts off an extra 4 years doing undergrad work. And to be honest I absolutely didn't learn anything during my undergrad, it was such a waste of time. It's not just me, most people I talk to also didn't learn anything during their undergrad time, they might not think like me "aka a waste of time", but the reality is that those times weren't efficiently spent.
, that is making the US a 3rd world country.
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The US is becoming a third world country? LMFAO I can never take anything else you say remotely serious. You have obviously never been to a 3rd world country, not even 2nd world or heck even 1.5. LOL