[AJPE] Pharmacy students get anxiety

[Mr.Smile12]

Conduct a multisite, survey-based study assessing rates of self-reported anxiety symptoms among student pharmacists enrolled in the first three professional years (PY1-PY3) of a four-year Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) curricula.

https://www.ajpe.org/article/S0002-9459(24)11053-4/abstract?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

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[steveysmith54]

For most people that I've talked to, working in a pharmacy is far more anxiety provoking than the school. Don't get me wrong, I've walked into a ton of exams feeling anxious and expecting to fail.

I never wanted to attend a school that had 90% requirement on exams, I believe like Nevada. I think that's very high bar to set.

 

[BenJammin]

"Come enroll at our pharmacy school and we'll pay for your SSRI"

Yikes

 

[lord999]

I'm a bit old-fashioned, but there's pretty good external reasons to be anxious in professional school. Same like having a little bit of an OCD tendency doesn't hurt practicing pharmacists. If it needs to be treated, fine, there's nothing wrong with it, but this is a water is wet study.

I just hope it isn't so scarring that I die screaming about failing my organic chemistry exams on my deathbed like that Spanish pathologist painter.

 

[RxPreceptor]

Yeah, I think higher education is suppose to be stressful. Maybe how people deal with stress has changed overtime. I personally got waaaay more into lifting weights, running, etc. during college as a means to cope

 

[PharmtoCS]

For most people that I've talked to, working in a pharmacy is far more anxiety provoking than the school. Don't get me wrong, I've walked into a ton of exams feeling anxious and expecting to fail.

I never wanted to attend a school that had 90% requirement on exams, I believe like Nevada. I think that's very high bar to set.

For me, the thought of failing a class and getting held back a year, losing 40k+ in additional tuition costs was far more anxiety provoking than the time I spent in retail.

 

[sunnyandseventytwo]

For me, the thought of failing a class and getting held back a year, losing 40k+ in additional tuition costs was far more anxiety provoking than the time I spent in retail.

Ditto that. I still have nightmares about discovering I haven't gone to a class until the end of the semester or forgetting a test. I have never once had a bad dream about work.

 

[nickw2401]

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