How difficult was your pharmacy statistics course?

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I'm currently taking it right now and it's atrocious. Are there school's out there with professors that successfully convey this material or is this subject horrible for everyone?

 

[PharmDstudent]

I'm currently taking it right now and it's atrocious. Are there school's out there with professors that successfully convey this material or is this subject horrible for everyone?

Biostats was pretty awful. My professor was the head of the math department, so he tried to give us a challenge since we were pharmacy students.

I would have had to make a 100 on the final to pull an "A", but since the final was optional, I settled for the "B".

 

[WVUPharm2007]

We just took regular ass statistics in undergrad. It was one of the easiest courses I've ever taken...

 

[sdn1977]

If I remember right, it was a hard class.

But - note to all potential CA pharmacists. Learn biostats - it comes up on the CPJE....

PharmD - is there any other way to indicate you're female? Pink is hard to read on my old eyes. I'll keep trying though.

 

[dgroulx]

I took undergrad stats and it was an easy A. Of course, it didn't count in pharmacy school and still had to take biostats. I thought it would be an easy A and I was wrong. I found the questions were very ambiguous, where in traditional stats it was all math and easy. The same goes for regular calculus vs business calculus. Numbers are easier than the scenarios.

That being said, what you get in real life is the scenarios.

 

[PharmDstudent]

If I remember right, it was a hard class.

But - note to all potential CA pharmacists. Learn biostats - it comes up on the CPJE....

PharmD - is there any other way to indicate you're female? Pink is hard to read on my old eyes. I'll keep trying though.

For you SDN, I'll write in black. I was waiting for someone to tell me to quit it. I just didn't consider the football thread a valid source of dictation.
I'll just put up my Simpsons avatar.

 

[Requiem]

Only descriptions I've ever heard of stats has been "extremely easy".

We don't have to take any as pharmacy students, although I'm sure it'd throw a few people in my class for a loop as it's not memorize 18 pages. It's a bit of problem solving.

I'd love for an engineering prof to come in and do some differentiations or problem solving and give us a test on it. I bet you would be able to hear the sobbing miles away.

 

[alwaystired]

My pharmacy stats was alright, not too hard.

My experience with using stats in Journal clubs has been brutal. That crap is confusing and dull to me. It can be manipulated by statistical geniuses and I'm not going to knw any difference anyway, even if I am looking for a certain power or p value. just my 2 cents

 

[rxlynn]

I'm currently taking it right now and it's atrocious. Are there school's out there with professors that successfully convey this material or is this subject horrible for everyone?

My biostats class was taught in an interesting format - block class with CD modules we had to listen to every night, and then every day in class we met in small groups to work through problem sets. I think the block was only 3 1/2 weeks or 4 weeks long, and it was right after the biochem block, so quite honestly it felt like vacation. However, I do think that some people had problems with the computation parts, and I won't say the tests were easy. I think it seemed much easier because it was so condensed I didn't have time to forget the details before I was tested on them.

 

[genesis09]

Our statistics course was taught with drug information. So, we got the joy of combining the two. That class has the only major required research paper. We had to do a literature review about an assigned medication. They wanted great detail on the statistics portion.

 

[pinkyrx]

Our statistics course was taught with drug information. So, we got the joy of combining the two. That class has the only major required research paper. We had to do a literature review about an assigned medication. They wanted great detail on the statistics portion.

Ours was combined too. I think we covered statistics in about 2 weeks. (of course we all had to have regular statistics before we came to pharmacy school too) Statistics when it comes to doing journal clubs is quite complex in my opinion. Pretty much all of us still feel completely clueless on anything more than the basic P-value/confidence interval. When doing journal clubs I just hope that the preceptor isn't a statistics guru and so far I've been lucky. I usually just look up the definition for the statistical tests that were used in the study and then present that for the statistics section of the journal club. I'm usually not quite sure if it was an appropriate test or not.

 

[pharmboy30]

the class I took was a joke, I almost failed....and I hate journal clubs.