You would be too if you were also accepted into the Johns Hopkins internship program 😉
Not sure about that given they are currently a licensed, practicing pharmacist 😉
lol ok and... so that allows them to be snarky?
No this is something extra. Every year, Johns Hopkins accepts 20 people for 9 weeks summer internship. It does not apply toward HIPPE or APPE unfortunately because it’s a paid internship.
As JustFillIt stated above, it’s more for the prestige of having Johns Hopkins in our CV. It’s not a PGY program, no. And I'm sure we'll get to learn a lot from the experience as well. But having the brand in our CV will be prob also be helpful to be more competitive.
Nightmare? Need all the luck in the world? It's going extremely well for me and I honestly don't want it to end lol. I'm assuming you've been apart of this internship to be so sure of what our experiences would be like?
I was like that too during my school time. Then reality hit…But we never know, maybe now is golden time again for pharmacy with sign on bonuses everywhere. Rural mostly but yeah, I haven’t seen that for a longest time.
This here is facts. It’s cute OP doesn’t know what they’re in for yet, no one is being snarky, just giving you the reality OP.
Nope, bonuses were driven by lack of pharmacists “willing” to work, not any shortage of pharmacists by a long shot (and bonuses have hard stipulations such as if you’re fired/leave you have to pay it back, 40% taken out, some have APR clauses, etc., and are even usually only in stores no one wants to take, in addition to the salary being low so even with bonuses it’s still crappy pay). Still 15,000 every year, and the loan pauses made some of them a bit braver to stick it to the 3 letter but once loans resume, you’ll see them flock back for 35/hr.
Doubt they are given their responses/general attitude, and “saturation” is a very mild way to put it. I’m sure they’ve heard of “saturation”, but they are unlikely to be fully aware of how bad it is, that Pharmacy has the worst outlook of any profession out there by reputable resources (-2%), that it’s constantly ranked last in healthcare profession rankings, and that in 2017 70,000 people applied to pharmacy school, by 2021 that number became 39,000 (almost half) while they still pushed the same 15,000 students every year. I’m sure they are also unlikey to be aware of the work conditions, 75-80k salaries for new grads, and that even PGY PharmDs are having trouble getting jobs. They think having a John Hopkins internship on their resume will somehow sway the odds in their favor. And the whole “as long as you’re willing to move” BS has been overplayed so much and used as as excuse for so long, it isn’t even true anymore.
