2 year 10 month PharmD program??

[JackFruitLover]

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WTF??

William Carey University School of Pharmacy offers a unique opportunity - WXXV 25

It’s the state's second pharmacy school, but the program has already met some major milestones.

www.wxxv25.com

 

[Pharmacy is a Scam]

WTF??

William Carey University School of Pharmacy offers a unique opportunity - WXXV 25

It’s the state's second pharmacy school, but the program has already met some major milestones.

www.wxxv25.com

Simple explanation.

Pharmacy technicians are gaining more ground than pharmacists are towards provider status with the ability to now vaccinate and provide final verification of prescriptions. Therefore, it is no longer necessary for pharmacy students to take immunization class, OTC class and “Top 200 drugs” class. That’s an easy 2 months worth of curriculum that can be shaved off right there (applied to a 3 year accelerated program gives you 2 years 10 months).

In the future I can even see curriculums go down to 2 years in length as schools get rid of more general ed classes (basically most of the other coursework you’d take during P1 year). If anything, I can make an argument that pharmacy school can be done with 1 year of didactic curriculum (therapeutics only) and 1 year of rotations.

 

[rxkrafted]

That's funny. I guess that's one way to attract these new students away from the hundreds of other schools. I wonder if they would adequately prepare their students because people still failing these NAPLEX exams nowadays

 

[Lnsean]

Meh its basically a 3 year program that already exists at some other schools. You're looking at 4 years in undergrad + 3 years grad, still 7 years which isn't unreasonable. If this was straight from highschool then it would be newsworthy

 

[Lubeckd]

Simple explanation.

Pharmacy technicians are gaining more ground than pharmacists are towards provider status with the ability to now vaccinate and provide final verification of prescriptions. Therefore, it is no longer necessary for pharmacy students to take immunization class, OTC class and “Top 200 drugs” class. That’s an easy 2 months worth of curriculum that can be shaved off right there (applied to a 3 year accelerated program gives you 2 years 10 months).

In the future I can even see curriculums go down to 2 years in length as schools get rid of more general ed classes (basically most of the other coursework you’d take during P1 year). If anything, I can make an argument that pharmacy school can be done with 1 year of didactic curriculum (therapeutics only) and 1 year of rotations.

I just said 1 year lol. 2 year if you need top 200

 

[BidingMyTime]

In the future I can even see curriculums go down to 2 years in length as schools get rid of more general ed classes (basically most of the other coursework you’d take during P1 year). If anything, I can make an argument that pharmacy school can be done with 1 year of didactic curriculum (therapeutics only) and 1 year of rotations.

The accreditation standards would have to be lowered, for this to be possible (and I think that is extremely unlikely to happen, the 4 year schools would not let it.) Pharmacy schools don't just make up their own curriculums, the curriculums are dictated by ACPE.

 

[DIPEA]

Simple explanation.

Pharmacy technicians are gaining more ground than pharmacists are towards provider status with the ability to now vaccinate and provide final verification of prescriptions. Therefore, it is no longer necessary for pharmacy students to take immunization class, OTC class and “Top 200 drugs” class. That’s an easy 2 months worth of curriculum that can be shaved off right there (applied to a 3 year accelerated program gives you 2 years 10 months).

In the future I can even see curriculums go down to 2 years in length as schools get rid of more general ed classes (basically most of the other coursework you’d take during P1 year). If anything, I can make an argument that pharmacy school can be done with 1 year of didactic curriculum (therapeutics only) and 1 year of rotations.

why 2 years? make it 1 year! condense the curriculum even further and get rid of all other courses except 8 therapeutics courses and 2 simulation labs each term.
PGY-3 is coming? sure, no need to waste 1 year on rotations then.

 

[Lubeckd]

why 2 years? make it 1 year! condense the curriculum even further and get rid of all other courses except 8 therapeutics courses and 2 simulation labs each term.
PGY-3 is coming? sure, no need to waste 1 year on rotations then.

They should make it all 3 years program. 4 if you want MBA with it

 

[lord999]

The accreditation standards would have to be lowered, for this to be possible (and I think that is extremely unlikely to happen, the 4 year schools would not let it.) Pharmacy schools don't just make up their own curriculums, the curriculums are dictated by ACPE.

University of the Pacific worked on that model for decades, mine did as well.You just end up taking more hours in a term and losing summers. Even if a traditional curriculum went Summers, that's possible like Southwest Oklahoma back in the day.

As far as curriculum, schools have discretion on how the topics are covered, ACPE rubber stamps it. I actually prefer integrated system curriculum philosophies over the traditional subject demarcations of Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry, and Therapeutics. The thing that sucked was a constant exam cycle of two a week for a two midterm, one final set of classes. But getting out of the BS earlier, I'd happily do it again.

To your point though, standards have changed, and I agree that I'm not sure what compromises were made for this to work. The student quality has declined as well.

 

[Seriously Serious]

Ehh, this is equivalent to something being sold for $2.99 instead of $3.00. I'll be impressed when schools extend their recruiting pipelines to high school freshman (2 years of college credit at a local junior college in the evenings and automatic matriculation into a pharmacy program after they graduate).

 

[farm4real]

The standards are so dangerous low ... would anyone trust such a diploma mill product with provider status?

The pipeline soon will be to the fetus! A quick degree delivered through sonograms!

But hey, what will change?..the new pharmacist will still be crying and full of ****

 

[mentos]

Aren't there like 13 pharmacy schools with 3 year programs already? Nothing new here.

"They will get jobs one year sooner" LoL. Assuming they get jobs.

 

[VictorOfHungerGames]

Simple explanation.

Pharmacy technicians are gaining more ground than pharmacists are towards provider status with the ability to now vaccinate and provide final verification of prescriptions. Therefore, it is no longer necessary for pharmacy students to take immunization class, OTC class and “Top 200 drugs” class. That’s an easy 2 months worth of curriculum that can be shaved off right there (applied to a 3 year accelerated program gives you 2 years 10 months).

In the future I can even see curriculums go down to 2 years in length as schools get rid of more general ed classes (basically most of the other coursework you’d take during P1 year). If anything, I can make an argument that pharmacy school can be done with 1 year of didactic curriculum (therapeutics only) and 1 year of rotations.

There is a good chance that pharmacists will end up working for techs. I can see big corps lobbying to convince schools that techs are much smarter, cheaper and just better people overall and that pharmacists should just serve the techs as superiors. haha. With enough money, schools will agree. Naive prepharms will still think that with $40k salary, it would be better to be a pharmacist than the techs who will end up making $80k lol I can see this happening in about 4 years.