after graduation....residency, fellowship, mba, jd, phd, md????

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i'm in pharmacy school and i have been doing my research as to what i really want to do after graduation...my friend and i were thinking about med school...has anyone ever heard of a pharmd graduate in med school? is that a new trend to do medicine after pharmacy??? do u need a high gpa and many letters of recommendations???? any suggestions about that? any input is greatly appreciated
 
Why do you have to do some type of continuing education? Whats wrong with just starting your career? Personally, once this is over and I graduate, I never want to go to school ever again. Residency sure, if what you want to do requires one/helps you in some way. But whats wrong with just taking the degree you earn and using it?
 
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Asrai said:
Why do you have to do some type of continuing education? Whats wrong with just starting your career? Personally, once this is over and I graduate, I never want to go to school ever again. Residency sure, if what you want to do requires one/helps you in some way. But whats wrong with just taking the degree you earn and using it?
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She's probably just a professional student. Someone who wants to rack up enough student loans to cause an aneurysm behind her eye balls when she looks at how much debt she owes. Maybe she can marry a doctor, and it'll all be taken care of 🙄.

I've known people who don't want to work, ever. These two ladies come to mind. They were in their 40's and 50's, and they were still trucking it through my previous college campus. They had been to so many different schools over the years. They knew a lot, but it scares me to think about how much much they had tied up in student loans :scared:.
 
requiem i think u misunderstood. my friend is not telling me what i need to do. i just wanted others input in terms of this matter. and if anyone had done further education what were their experiences like??? is it worth it?? for me i always wanted to medicine but i didnt have the grades to get into med school. as for me i'm leaning towards working after graduation...
 
your absolutely right farmercyst...and i i'm sorry if i unknowingly hurt or frustrated the readers of this online forum...i did not intend to hurt anyone in my post i really do apologize...just wanted info which i thought this online network is perfect for once again my intention was not to insult anyone
 
do whatever you want to. But keep an open mind. I wanted to do an MBA, and although the business aspect of the pharma still intrigues me, so does fields like outcomes research, postmarket surviellance and pharmacoepidemiology. So try new things, meet people who do different things and make a decision. I might be doing a residency/masters combo in pharmacy administration, getting an MBA or might be doing MS in clinical epidemiology. Who knows?
 
pharmacygurl said:
requiem i think u misunderstood. my friend is not telling me what i need to do. i just wanted others input in terms of this matter. and if anyone had done further education what were their experiences like??? is it worth it?? for me i always wanted to medicine but i didnt have the grades to get into med school. as for me i'm leaning towards working after graduation...
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it is much harder to get into pharmacy school than med school... tons more doctors.. tons more openings.
 
Farmercyst said:
😕 I'm not quite catching the correlation. Seems like difficulty of entry has more to do with number of applicants/number of spots not number of graduates/number of job opportunities.
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That's what I mean. Lots of jobs out there for doctors, far more than pharmacists. This means lots more med schools/available seats open. Med school is less competitive simply because there are far more seats available. If they were as choosy as pharm schools, they'd never fill their seats.
 
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pharmacygurl said:
requiem i think u misunderstood. my friend is not telling me what i need to do. i just wanted others input in terms of this matter. and if anyone had done further education what were their experiences like??? is it worth it?? for me i always wanted to medicine but i didnt have the grades to get into med school. as for me i'm leaning towards working after graduation...
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I'll put my thought just in case...

It really doesn't make any economic sense. Let's say, you'll have 100K in debt when you graduate from pharm school. And you get admitted to med school right away. You'll pay around 40-50K/year x 4 years. Thats another 160-200K debt on top of what you already have. You'll have to do minimum 3 yr residency to do primary care or internal medicine. So you spend 7 yr getting trained in medicine, losing 700 K in opportunity costs alone. [And total cost 900K incl opportunity cost, 900K...it's near 1 million!] If you do PCP or IM, you'll be getting $150K-200K/yr. Let's say you earn more ($300-500K) after surgical residency and become some kind of specialist. But that will be ~10 years training... You'll be like, 40y/o... AND you spent your 20s and 30s with no social life and working crazy hours during residency training. It is totally not worth it for someone who will have a PharmD.
 
sammy15 said:
it is much harder to get into pharmacy school than med school... tons more doctors.. tons more openings.
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I don't think this is an accurate statement. Sure there maybe more medical schools than pharmacy schools, but I could assure you there are many more applicants for medical schools. So I don't understand your rationale.
 
<------- Wondering when people will stop trying to compare difficulty of gaining admission to med vs. pharm school. if you think you can't get into medical school and go to pharmacy school just because you can get in, i pity your patients. if you want to be a physician, go to med school; if you want to be a pharmacist, go to pharm school. is it really that hard of a concept to grasp?
 
sammy15 said:
That's what I mean. Lots of jobs out there for doctors, far more than pharmacists. This means lots more med schools/available seats open. Med school is less competitive simply because there are far more seats available. If they were as choosy as pharm schools, they'd never fill their seats.
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This is ridiculous. Applicant:seat ratio is so much higher for med schools.
 
Do a search for this over in the md forumn. There are some good threads that go into detail about this.
 
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