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It's the time of the year for the start of PharmCAS application filing.
If you have questions specific to Belmont University's pharmacy program, feel free to post them. I (and other members of the BUSOP community: faculty and students and SDN friends) will do our best to answer them as quickly and completely as we can.
Eric H. Hobson, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor of Pharmacy
Belmont USOP
Yeah. I got a question for you.
Why in the name of all things good and holy are you people opening another pharmacy school? What do you honestly think is going to happen in Tennessee when three new pharmacy schools all of a sudden flood the market with pharmacists? I guess you folks were the first me-too school to open up...and you aren't as creepy as the Union people and their much more overt church-school thing...but nonetheless...you and I know darn well that TN doesn't need that many pharmacy schools. Let alone the fact that there are now multiple pharmacy schools in TN that want to be churches on the side...but I digress on that issue....my concern is the fact that you folks have opened a pharmacy school.
Just look at what's happening in Jersey and Eastern PA. There are pharmacists, many of which post on these forums, that can't get a job within a 200 mile radius of their homes. They are doing temp work and maybe getting 10 hours a week. New grads are just having a tough time getting work in many, many locations.
If you folks from these private, for-profit schools keep opening up new programs, you will saturate the market. I remember when I was getting into the profession, there was no such thing as tiers of schools...but right now...I can honesty say there are clear tiers forming. And it's just not me saying this, it's actual academics I have talked to. And let's say tiers form...and I'm hiring a new grad pharmacist in TN...you tell me which tier I'm going to put a school like U of Tennessee in...and what tier I'd put Belmont in...and who is it that I hire....?
It's just like the JD and the MBA. Any Tom, Dick, and Harry opens up a school...and only the grads from the top tiered schools get jobs.
Will that be the PharmD in 15 years? It won't matter to me...I'll have the resume and experience to compete...but I worry for the profession. I worry for kids that will be getting 6-figs into debt and might not find something after school.
Do you honestly think that this explosion of schools is a positive thing? That it will go smoothly?
Oh...and no offense or anything...I just think academics need drawn and quartered sometimes...
Looking forward to your response.
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