I am a third year pharmacy student in the east coast. I plan to apply for internship in the pharmaceutical companies in the summer 2006. My interested area is in clinical research, medical information or medical affair. Does anyone has done intership in Merck, Astrazenec or Glaxawelcom or any other pharmaceutical company? Could you share your experience? Is it easy to get intership accepted from the pharmaceutical companies? How helpful is the internship experience for you to find a positon in pharmaceutical company after graduation?
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Hello, I am actually a statistician. My big goal is to work for the pharmaceutical industry. However, for statistics, it is SO SO competitive beyond words. I am in the graduate program in North Carolina and there are so many people who have years of working experience before. In fact, my department NCSU had a career fair, and Glaxo told everyone to forget it unless they had five years of working expereince in a hospital, CRO, or pharm company, in addition to the PhD.
IN fact, I am considering maybe going into pharmacy after the masters at a good school (UNC-Chapel Hill or UF) and trying to go this route for Pharmacy, if I cannot find anything with the initial masters. A PhD might be too much time before getting a job to find out that it is impossible, but I would continue if I could find a related position. However, I think that in pharmacy, you either need a post-graduate fellowship or pursue a PhD in pharmaceutics after the PharmD if you seriously want to work for a pharm company. If you want to do marketing then do an MBA after the PHarmD. But I think the PHarmD alone is not enough.
IN fact, I am considering maybe going into pharmacy after the masters at a good school (UNC-Chapel Hill or UF) and trying to go this route for Pharmacy, if I cannot find anything with the initial masters. A PhD might be too much time before getting a job to find out that it is impossible, but I would continue if I could find a related position. However, I think that in pharmacy, you either need a post-graduate fellowship or pursue a PhD in pharmaceutics after the PharmD if you seriously want to work for a pharm company. If you want to do marketing then do an MBA after the PHarmD. But I think the PHarmD alone is not enough.
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My pharmacy school requests to take one of three concentrations (Pharmaceutical Research, Pharmacy Management, and Geriatric). It will be indicated in our transcript. So your option is awared of. You are in the third year, so you have studied some pharmaceutics. You might need to take one more pharmaceutical science course before you could take a semester for doing research.sueyin said:
I was a chemical engineer. I plan to take a dual degree: PharmD and MS in Pharmaceutical Science. A master degree (no matter what field) is a mininum requirement for any research position. PharmD doesn't provide a research skill, so it is not satisfied. A PhD with a PharmD is too much and they will expect you a lot of challenges.