Career in the academia

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It has recently come to my attention that there might be a shortage of pharmacists going to academia. Is this true? How does one enter the field anyway? Do you have to have a PhD in pharmacy in order to teach?

 

[KARM12]

It has recently come to my attention that there might be a shortage of pharmacists going to academia. Is this true? How does one enter the field anyway? Do you have to have a PhD in pharmacy in order to teach?

No you can teach with a PharmD. You will need to complete a residency. the reason for the shortage is because pharmacy professors get paid crap.

 

[rxlynn]

It has recently come to my attention that there might be a shortage of pharmacists going to academia. Is this true? How does one enter the field anyway? Do you have to have a PhD in pharmacy in order to teach?

Yes - there is a huge shortage! At my school, the PharmD faculty are generally the more clinically-oriented and teach pharmacy practice and therapeutics. Many of them also spend a significant amount of time in a hospital or other setting doing clinical work and precepting students. The PhD faculty are more involved in research, but they also do a lot of teaching of the science courses (A&P, Micro, Pharmaceutics, etc.). So, both degrees are good for academia. If I was younger, I would thing about it. My limited observation is that pharmacy professors get more autonomy and have more choice in the types of activities they pursue than your typical colllege chemistry prof, for example.