Ever taken an upper level pharmacology or pharmacotherapy course in a complex organ system? How about required to be on rotation for 12 hours getting grilled by physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and sometimes patients? You'll have to study 40+ hours per exam just to make a B in some classes due to the sheer amount of content covered. What standard do you base it on being "the easiest?"
Most pharmacists aren't pretentious about being called "doctor." But you know, if chiropractors, dentists, naturopaths, DNP's, and other non-physician healthcare professionals are deserving of the title and actively displaying that title (I've never not seen a non-doctor touting chiro, naturopath or dentist) why not pharmacists who in many cases got more education than them? I support it because I think the credit is earned, considering others use it. If anything the only people truly allowed to use the term should be PhDs. Physicians kinda hijacked it when they became evidence and science based practitioners as a way to distinguish themselves from traditionalists, or non-allopaths (I believe the use of a lab coat also came from there too). Not saying that was wrong to do, I'm glad they put witch doctors in their place back in the day and asserted a culture of evidence based medicine and academic rigor. Society typically adopted "doctor" for the title of physician largely out of convenience and because that's how they marketed themselves. In an academic situation if you had a professor with a non-MD degree are you going to not refer to them as doctor soandso? Technically we all have respective titles. Pharmacist, Physician, Chiropractor, Dentist, Physical Therapist, etc, yet all hold doctorate degrees with many of them taking the same amount of professional-schooling time to complete. One can argue the rigor involved in each degree, but at the end of the day the years required is still the same.
On rotation today a physician noted my preceptor, a PharmD, as "doctor x" when consulting them in a note on the chart. My preceptor never demands it, in fact I've never met another pharmacist who does nor will I one day, but I still think the title is fully earned.
The "studying" done is quite different. I'll let you know when/if I get there. I imagine, there is only one answer to those classes, instead of being handed a blank sheet of paper saying: Write a program X that does A,B,C. In a class of 200 people, no answer will be the same. This is how you determine the thinkers from those who just sit and do rote memorization all day. Ever taken a computer science class? How about data structures and algorithms? All I'm saying is, in my school alone kids were failing left and right in "first year" pharmacy classes while I just crammed the day/morning of and still made a B in. Maybe that says something about me, maybe it says something about the students, maybe it says something about the school, I don't know.
There's a reason why comp sci majors make nearly on par with new pharmds with just a BS, with higher earning potential. Not everyone can do it. And speaking as someone who left pharmacy, and am doing CS in my gap year, while interviewing for med school, yes, I do see and have seen what healthcare students go through.
I will not make this into a "My career is harder" comparison, because who knows maybe I just suck at math and abstract thinking. All I know is that any level of orgo, biochem, and pkin or whatever you call it will be nothing compared to "create a free standing program". for me. In CS it is expected you get the right answer. It's developing the quickest/most efficient way that matters. Creation vs memorization. You tell me what's more difficult in theory. And the end result is what?
Also you misread OP and my post. He said, is it the easiest and based on his points Im assuming he meant easiest to gain entry into. But you immediately jumped into defense about how hard your courses are and how much you studied. So what if you studied 40 hours a week and rotate another 40, doesn't change the fact that you can now get in with a sub 3.0 and 50 PCAT.How does the amount you study have anything to do with how "easy" it is to gain admissions now?
In case you missed it here it is again:
1. Plenty of schools do not require a standardized exam.
2. Bachelors isn't required
3. New schools popping up with very low standards
4. Pretty low failure rates
To which I said yes, it is easy. Then I said I can't say how hard my school's exams are because everyone just uses test banks the first year.
Maybe you shouldn't confuse admission standards with your academic struggles.
