First, if you don't want a lot of spam, edit your post and take out your email address. You can ask people to send you a private message within SDN if you like.
This being the nontrad forum, there are plenty of career-changers here, from nursing/engineering/teaching/etc. backgrounds. If you're specifically looking for a pharmacist to talk to, I haven't seen any in the ~18 months I've been paying attention here. I think you'll find that the nurses, PAs, PTs, etc. can guide you well.
In general, you will be compared with 21 year olds when you apply to med school. Nobody is going to notice or care that you're a practicing pharmacist until your GPA, MCAT score, essays, recommendations and clinical experiences have been reviewed. And nobody is going to give you a go-ahead for time served as a pharmacist - you will be evaluated on the same terms as a 21 year old. That said, you will be expected to show that you're a mature and experienced candidate, well-versed in health care policy and ethics, and you may be expected to demonstrate that your background in pharmacy is relevant, or leverageable, within medicine.
To get to where you're ready to apply, you need to:
1. Find your
undergrad transcripts and calculate your overall and science GPAs. Look on
www.aamc.org for instructions on how to calculate these, and for what constitutes science. If you're 3.6 or above, you arguably are fine. If you're under 3.6, you need to do additional undergrad work to get over 3.6, and/or do exceptionally well on the MCAT, and/or apply to mid-low-tier MD schools, and/or look into DO.
...Your graduate GPA does not carry much weight.
2. Assuming you've taken a year each, with labs, of gen chem, organic chem, physics and biology (these are still the prereqs), you should take some additional
undergrad upper division science, to demonstrate that you can handle rigorous coursework and know what a genome is. Arguably, you should do this in a classroom, versus online or at a CC. Some med schools expire prereqs after X number of years, such as UMass where X=6. You need to find out if a given school that you're interested in has such a policy. There are plenty of us here with 10-20 year old prereqs who got in.
-->> One very important aspect of taking new coursework, in your case, is that you need letters of recommendation from faculty.
2. Prep to take the MCAT. I suggest you dive right in and see how far you are from being ready by taking a practice test on
www.e-mcat.com (first one's free). You may find that you need very little review, or you may find that you really want to just take all the prereq coursework again. You can take a prep course (Kaplan, TPR, etc.), you can buy/borrow prep books, etc.
3. Buff your clinical experience. If you're not working in a clinical setting, then start a volunteer gig in a hospital or clinic. Get an MD or DO colleague to allow you to shadow for a day, and get yourself well-versed in the current pros/cons of medical practice.
4. Find 4 people to write you strong recommendations. Some schools are going to require 3 of these to be faculty.
5. Get Iserson's Guide on getting into medical school. This is a solid 1st opinion, in most cases, on questions of how to do it.
6. Get a recent med school grad or current med school student to act as a 2nd/3rd opinion on anything you see on SDN.
Best of luck to you.
