6 year pharm vs traditional MD path

[VeggieForce]

SAT: 2050
GPA: 4.65 (idk the one based on 4.0 scale)

I got accepted to the Northeastern 6 year pharm program. I have also been accepted to TCNJ with a biology major. I have been wanting to become a doctor forever, but the pharmacy pros seem really nice not to mention the extremely reduced stress if I do the Northeastern program. Still, I have heard that it is getting extremely hard to find a pharmacy job once your done with becoming a pharmacist. As a doctor, I will have job security. However, I still feel that I can become a good doctor and make it into med school. TCNJ has been my favorite college so far. (can keep my gpa higher than if I went to an ivy league and I loved it when i visited it) If I do the pharm program I feel that I am just taking the easy way out and fearing the stress of becoming doctor. Should I just go to TCNJ and continuing exploring and see if I still REALLY want to become a doctor?

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[torshi]

SAT: 2050
GPA: 4.65 (idk the one based on 4.0 scale)

I got accepted to the Northeastern 6 year pharm program. I have also been accepted to TCNJ with a biology major. I have been wanting to become a doctor forever, but the pharmacy pros seem really nice not to mention the extremely reduced stress if I do the Northeastern program. Still, I have heard that it is getting extremely hard to find a pharmacy job once your done with becoming a pharmacist. As a doctor, I will have job security. However, I still feel that I can become a good doctor and make it into med school. TCNJ has been my favorite college so far. (can keep my gpa higher than if I went to an ivy league and I loved it when i visited it) If I do the pharm program I feel that I am just taking the easy way out and fearing the stress of becoming doctor. Should I just go to TCNJ and continuing exploring and see if I still REALLY want to become a doctor?

Do what you thinks best.

If your debating on this issue when you already been accepted to a 6 yr pharm program, sounds like you want to go the MD route.

 

[bucks2010]

I have been wanting to become a doctor forever,

You answered your own question.

 

[Gigantron]

You didn't even apply to ANY B.S./M.D. programs...?

 

[jeremmed77]

I think you should think long and hard about whether or not you really want to be a medical doctor. Are you only going into pharmacy for economic reasons or is it something you would love doing for the rest of your life? Have you shadowed a pharmacist and/or looked up what their job requires?

If you truly do not know what you want to do, I would consider doing the pharmacy program. This way you would graduate with a Pharmacy degree, and then you can decide to change your mind later and reapply to medical school. This would be the safe option.

However, others would strongly encourage against what I am suggesting. If you decide to pursue the biology degree, you will have to realize that there is a possibility that you will not get into medical nor pharmacy school. That is the only reason I am suggesting you do pharmacy! It is clearly the "safer" option.

 

[bacillus1]

There are fewer and fewer pharmacy jobs now because more and more schools are opening. In the Boston area alone, MCPHS opened up 2 satellite campuses, WNEC, St. Joseph's, there may be more that I don't know about, while medicine jobs don't seem to be decreasing as much. If you really love pharmacy, might as well go for what you love, but I think you should become a doctor.