What experience did you have? Residency? Internships?
I worked as an intern and had 1 year internship but that doesn’t matter. Jobs are limited and you’re accepting any job that comes your way no choices
To be fair, pharmacy school recruiters don’t lie about the job market, they just don’t talk about it. Instead, they focus on red herrings such as “provider status”, “our curriculum is unique/3 years only/has certificate tracks”, “we are the only pharmacy school in ________ area”, “70% of our graduates match for residency [but can’t find jobs after],” and “this is where our alumni are working now [never mind that these alumni profiles are cherry picked and they graduated 10-15 years ago before saturation became a problem].”
Lol can’t believe I fell for that. I was in denial when I started thinking everyone that told me stay away from pharmacy, just didn’t want me to succeed, wish I listened to them. Good luck to whoever is going into pharmacy school, you just played yourself
We can dissect it even further. 70% [of the 50% of students in your class who actually applied for residencies] matched with a residency program. This means that in reality, only 35% of your class ended up with a residency. The remaining 65% either didn’t match or is in the hunger games fighting for a per diem retail job 3 hrs away from civilization.
I would say that the same goes for hospital/clinical pharmacist per diem jobs. Kaiser Permanente posted up an opening for that particular position just recently and received over 300 applications in just a matter of days.
Yeah they ask a lot of people for jobs. Are they still living with their parents and spouse jobless for a year already?
Add dentists to that list. Those dinguses just want money.
I guess, but medicine is one field where health of the patient should be the biggest priority.
USC used to have an admissions interview question of “Do you still want to become a pharmacist if your salary was $50k?”
Same with medicine
Really? I thought there's a shortage in medicine
I was referring to the part about doctors having to take jobs in corporations with high turnover rates
How bad is hospitial turnover?
like you work for 250,000 starting then a new grad will take lower pay? or the hospital is brought out?
I don't know what you're talking about. Can you expand on this?
do you think optometry is better
The phat salaries u c are to lure a doctor to the area and hospital. Once employed for 1 to 2 years depending on the salary guarantee, the salaries drop..
What would be initial range then drop?
Depends on the field
Yes, this all depends on the field. I would argue that it's unhelpful to have this type of conversation when painting with such a broad brush. For one thing, a large proportion of docs aren't employed by hospitals at all. Moreover, a physician should lawyer up before signing any employment contract and this drop in salary that you're referring to should not come as a surprise when the time comes.
Do you have the stats on the number of employed docs? It may be much larger than you think. And with increasing govt regulations, it just gets bigger.
Even UHCOP graduates? Jeeez, what about other Texas COP graduates? Do y'all exclusively look around H-Town only?
I went to a corporate place, they said the eye dentist was tele! Eek no!
No, this isn't really a thing. Just stop.
It's the experience my friends are having.
New gen gets worse and worse
Where exactly is “here”?
