Good skills of a pharamcy student

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Bar the normal skills such as good communication and being a team member, what other skills does a pharmacy student have/ should actually possess. Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[ItsOverZyvox]

Get good grades.. I would value that the highest.

 

[Megas]

Obsessive attention to detail, to the point where it might be considered insane, is appreciated (like spelling-"pharmacy"), and scrupulous ethics.

 

[RxWildcat]

Obsessive attention to detail, to the point where it might be considered insane, is appreciated (like spelling-"pharmacy")

ah, beat me to it.

 

[Caverject]

Bar the normal skills such as good communication and being a team member, what other skills does a pharmacy student have/ should actually possess. Any ideas would be appreciated.

ask more questions about the pay differences are between doctors and pharmacists and pharmacists working in America vs England

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Let's be honest. What makes a "good" student has two meanings. I did pretty decent at one and failed miserably at the other. It's not hard to guess which is which.

For those that want to actually be a good pharmacist:
Don't try to memorize EVERYTHING. It's pointless. Know WHERE to find information and how to UNDERSTAND the concepts in the realm of pharmacy. Those are the two most important things you can learn in school. Learning how to think critically is, too. But you don't actually learn that in pharmacy school. Or I least I didn't think so. I learned that by reading philosophy books in my spare time when I was younger. Jean-Paul Sarte and Plato taught me that ****.

For those that want to be "good" students in the sense that you want the professors to write you letters of recommendations and crap like that, your most needed abilities are:

Ability to lie about how much you enjoy school and to appear interested in anything.
Ability to jump through hoops without pointing out to the professors how pointless their class/rotation is.
Ability to study the most banal, irrelevant things on the planet, regurgitate them on an exam, forget it all within three months, and NOT question to yourself what the entire point of your life is. Let alone school.
Ability to suppress the logic center of your brain for 4 years concerning the mechanisms by which your education is acquired (i.e. you pay someone to allow you to be subservient to them, you pay $10k+/year to have powerpoints read to you, etc, etc.)

 

[JamesL1585]

LMAO This made my week haha...

Let's be honest. What makes a "good" student has two meanings. I did pretty decent at one and failed miserably at the other. It's not hard to guess which is which.

For those that want to actually be a good pharmacist:
Don't try to memorize EVERYTHING. It's pointless. Know WHERE to find information and how to UNDERSTAND the concepts in the realm of pharmacy. Those are the two most important things you can learn in school. Learning how to think critically is, too. But you don't actually learn that in pharmacy school. Or I least I didn't think so. I learned that by reading philosophy books in my spare time when I was younger. Jean-Paul Sarte and Plato taught me that ****.

For those that want to be "good" students in the sense that you want the professors to write you letters of recommendations and crap like that, your most needed abilities are:

Ability to lie about how much you enjoy school and to appear interested in anything.
Ability to jump through hoops without pointing out to the professors how pointless their class/rotation is.
Ability to study the most banal, irrelevant things on the planet, regurgitate them on an exam, forget it all within three months, and NOT question to yourself what the entire point of your life is. Let alone school.
Ability to suppress the logic center of your brain for 4 years concerning the mechanisms by which your education is acquired (i.e. you pay someone to allow you to be subservient to them, you pay $10k+/year to have powerpoints read to you, etc, etc.)

 

[heatherkmd]

WOW~ that pretty much sums up my mood this year~ right on! I am glad to know I am not the only one that feels this way....sigh.....🙁 and it also made me laugh!

Let's be honest. What makes a "good" student has two meanings. I did pretty decent at one and failed miserably at the other. It's not hard to guess which is which.

For those that want to actually be a good pharmacist:
Don't try to memorize EVERYTHING. It's pointless. Know WHERE to find information and how to UNDERSTAND the concepts in the realm of pharmacy. Those are the two most important things you can learn in school. Learning how to think critically is, too. But you don't actually learn that in pharmacy school. Or I least I didn't think so. I learned that by reading philosophy books in my spare time when I was younger. Jean-Paul Sarte and Plato taught me that ****.

For those that want to be "good" students in the sense that you want the professors to write you letters of recommendations and crap like that, your most needed abilities are:

Ability to lie about how much you enjoy school and to appear interested in anything.
Ability to jump through hoops without pointing out to the professors how pointless their class/rotation is.
Ability to study the most banal, irrelevant things on the planet, regurgitate them on an exam, forget it all within three months, and NOT question to yourself what the entire point of your life is. Let alone school.
Ability to suppress the logic center of your brain for 4 years concerning the mechanisms by which your education is acquired (i.e. you pay someone to allow you to be subservient to them, you pay $10k+/year to have powerpoints read to you, etc, etc.)

 

[117296]

Let's be honest. What makes a "good" student has two meanings. I did pretty decent at one and failed miserably at the other. It's not hard to guess which is which.

For those that want to actually be a good pharmacist:
Don't try to memorize EVERYTHING. It's pointless. Know WHERE to find information and how to UNDERSTAND the concepts in the realm of pharmacy. Those are the two most important things you can learn in school. Learning how to think critically is, too. But you don't actually learn that in pharmacy school. Or I least I didn't think so. I learned that by reading philosophy books in my spare time when I was younger. Jean-Paul Sarte and Plato taught me that ****.

For those that want to be "good" students in the sense that you want the professors to write you letters of recommendations and crap like that, your most needed abilities are:

Ability to lie about how much you enjoy school and to appear interested in anything.
Ability to jump through hoops without pointing out to the professors how pointless their class/rotation is.
Ability to study the most banal, irrelevant things on the planet, regurgitate them on an exam, forget it all within three months, and NOT question to yourself what the entire point of your life is. Let alone school.
Ability to suppress the logic center of your brain for 4 years concerning the mechanisms by which your education is acquired (i.e. you pay someone to allow you to be subservient to them, you pay $10k+/year to have powerpoints read to you, etc, etc.)

WVU is completely right. The gulf between school and reality is so huge that we could build a freeway through it. Especially studying the most irrelevant things and NOT questioning the point of life. Honestly, I thought I was done with taking classes which part are completely pointless to the profession after I got done with undergrad...this is not the case 🙁

If you didn't read WVU's post the first time...memorizing everything is pointless!

 

[confettiflyer]

Don't lose the forest in the trees.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

What disappointed me is how much my school squelched my desire for independent learning. If they would have let me study pharmacology and theoretical stuff more on rotations rather than force feeding me clinical pharmacy crap, I'd have learned 20-fold more than I did. With a smile on my face. It's this bizarre move to mold kids into these little minions they want them to become rather than what they themselves want to become.

Nowadays, they actually have a "type" of personality they are after. I've actually read the stuff they use to evaluate Pharm school candidates at WVU. I think it's stupid. (But who am I? 🙄 ) They are looking for subservient little sheep that always do what they are told. They don't actually say this, but the type of person they purport to be after doesn't really exist. So they get liars that are good actors. Or maybe they do, but it's incredibly rare. Gone will be the independent minded fellow/gal that hates authority. They don't even get in. Too bad, really. They are the ones that revolutionize things.

 

[atticus27]

Ability to lie about how much you enjoy school and to appear interested in anything.
Ability to jump through hoops without pointing out to the professors how pointless their class/rotation is.
Ability to study the most banal, irrelevant things on the planet, regurgitate them on an exam, forget it all within three months, and NOT question to yourself what the entire point of your life is. Let alone school.
Ability to suppress the logic center of your brain for 4 years concerning the mechanisms by which your education is acquired (i.e. you pay someone to allow you to be subservient to them, you pay $10k+/year to have powerpoints read to you, etc, etc.)

Brilliant

 

[rxforlife2004]

Bar the normal skills such as good communication and being a team member, what other skills does a pharmacy student have/ should actually possess. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Well well well...this brought back the old memories that i had back in pharm school. As a student, this is what i found out...you can try my mechanism and see if it works for you, but it definitely worked for me well. For the first couple of exams, i noticed that i just studied a lot, showed up at every lecture and barely passed (my school was a 90%= passing, below 90= fail). Then one day, i fell asleep at home....did not even go to class....ending up borrowing a friend's note (her note was pretty good). Then , the next day, i repeated the same cycle.....and that exam, i did really well....From then on, i am like "watever...to pharmacy lectures" and barely showed up in lecture again, rarely, only to the exam review sessions (where you hope to get some sort of hints/cram from the professors)...and I did even better than showing up to lecture.

In summary: Stay home, collect friend's note...study by yourself and you'll be fine...Because when you go to class, your body is already tired after 4-5 hours of lecturing....then going home....and study again? That didn't work very well for me. But well...some people are nervous and they have to be in class, no matter what 😀 It's all good....

 

[iphetamine]

Well well well...this brought back the old memories that i had back in pharm school. As a student, this is what i found out...you can try my mechanism and see if it works for you, but it definitely worked for me well. For the first couple of exams, i noticed that i just studied a lot, showed up at every lecture and barely passed (my school was a 90%= passing, below 90= fail). Then one day, i fell asleep at home....did not even go to class....ending up borrowing a friend's note (her note was pretty good). Then , the next day, i repeated the same cycle.....and that exam, i did really well....From then on, i am like "watever...to pharmacy lectures" and barely showed up in lecture again, rarely, only to the exam review sessions (where you hope to get some sort of hints/cram from the professors)...and I did even better than showing up to lecture.

In summary: Stay home, collect friend's note...study by yourself and you'll be fine...Because when you go to class, your body is already tired after 4-5 hours of lecturing....then going home....and study again? That didn't work very well for me. But well...some people are nervous and they have to be in class, no matter what 😀 It's all good....

So true. That's what happened to me with Phytochem and Pharmaceutics, rarely attended their lectures, crammed everything before the exam, got a good grade that I didn't expected. Pharm school is weird, sometimes I feel lost and just some creature trying to memorize everything...then get bored, frustrated, leave things out...end up with an ok grade. 😳
😕

 

[RxWildcat]

my school was a 90%= passing, below 90= fail...

Thats crazy, I hope the tests were (relatively) easy.

 

[mike36]

Let's be honest. What makes a "good" student has two meanings. I did pretty decent at one and failed miserably at the other. It's not hard to guess which is which.

For those that want to actually be a good pharmacist:
Don't try to memorize EVERYTHING. It's pointless. Know WHERE to find information and how to UNDERSTAND the concepts in the realm of pharmacy. Those are the two most important things you can learn in school. Learning how to think critically is, too. But you don't actually learn that in pharmacy school. Or I least I didn't think so. I learned that by reading philosophy books in my spare time when I was younger. Jean-Paul Sarte and Plato taught me that ****.

For those that want to be "good" students in the sense that you want the professors to write you letters of recommendations and crap like that, your most needed abilities are:

Ability to lie about how much you enjoy school and to appear interested in anything.
Ability to jump through hoops without pointing out to the professors how pointless their class/rotation is.
Ability to study the most banal, irrelevant things on the planet, regurgitate them on an exam, forget it all within three months, and NOT question to yourself what the entire point of your life is. Let alone school.
Ability to suppress the logic center of your brain for 4 years concerning the mechanisms by which your education is acquired (i.e. you pay someone to allow you to be subservient to them, you pay $10k+/year to have powerpoints read to you, etc, etc.)

I think this just about says it all.

 

[Megas]

Oh, while still in class? Just smile and nod at people you'd rather kill. If you're female, giggle on occasion. Go home and try not to kill yourself. Repeat as necessary.

 

[Hels2007]

Be able to think. It's amazing how uncommon it is, though, even among pharmacy students...

 

[Knipps]

Be able to think. It's amazing how uncommon it is, though, even among pharmacy students...

It's amazing how sparse common sense is 😕

 

[confettiflyer]

Try not to whine. My school is full of whiners/bitchers...freakin' losers, just tough it out and do your work.

Apparently this is the case at other schools.

So yeah, don't be a whiner...and don't talk about your personal life and how it relates to pharmacy in class. No one gives a flying ****!

 

[mustang sally]

Oh, while still in class? Just smile and nod at people you'd rather kill. If you're female, giggle on occasion. Go home and try not to kill yourself. Repeat as necessary.

This quote made my day! 🙂 I'm not much of a giggler, though.