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This was posted in another thread.... merging.
well written article...i'll even let the slightly misinformed line about accreditation slide
It is a better than usual article on the matter, slight errors aside. There is a line in there about fellowships that I thought was chuckle worthy.
WHich thread? sorry didn't see it
This reminds me of that saying, "When life gives you lemons, suck on a lemon."
What about when life gives you douchebags?
Then irrigate your vagina?
That is the counterpoint involved with the pharmacist surplus argument. It would provide a means to weed out the least productive/least contributing pharmacists instead of firms having to hire anybody/everybody.
It would also provide means to worsen job conditions for pharmacists and put them in environment where they are more likely to make errors... I don't buy that argument... I've already heard of a pharmacist at CVS tell me that he had to do 400 prescriptions with just one clerk and no tech on a saturday.
As far as the student who is pro new schools, i think he is a bit confused, perhaps he thinks that since he has a intern job the future of pharmacy is ok... Little does he know that finding a pharmacist position is a different story.
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or many graduates will not be able to find a job. Experienced pharmacists will always have the upper hand.
I met that kid at MRM last year when he was running for regional delegate or whatever. I thought the guy from Oklahoma (but attending UC Denver) would have been a better representative because he said more specific things about what he would do in the position and seemed a bit more informed.
Holly cow! 16 pharmacy schools in CA? When I graduated, CA just had UOP, USC, UCSF ,Western. Gone are those days when you feel proud being a Pharm.D.
I think that guy got into UOP, so he didn't benefit from the expansion, but he saying he wished that there was one when he was applying...
This is true, but there is inevitable movement, which is where the weed out would happen upon hiring that person's replacement.
I don't mind new schools opening up, as long as they are the right schools. When I mean right schools, I don't mean a school where:
a) there is no university hospital or associated medical center/health system (or one without a strong relationship to one)
b) PharmD is the only doctoral level degree available
c) concurrent dental hygienist, pharmacy technician, medical assistant, or other historically "vocational" programs exist.
d) they lack regional accreditation and/or are standalone programs
e) continue to advertise labor shortage conditions in recruitment literature
We are talking about pharmacists here, not your high school graduates. Most of the pharmacists have good work ethics and are capable of doing a good job. Even the "lazy" ones got their act together when the shortage disappeared.
It is not easy to fire a pharmacist without worrying about potential lawsuits. The recent grads are the ones who are going to ultimately suffer and pharmacist wage will not increase much over the years.
Plus, we are talking about pharmacy here, not brain surgery. Most graduates are capable of doing a good job. The question is really how much crap are you willing to take from cvs/walgreens before you call it quit. Without the shortage, expect more crap from management.
You just have to suck it up and work ...because if you don't, someone else is gonna jump in and rob your job. 16 pharmacy schools in California...This means every year, pharmacy schools will produce more than 1000 pharmacists. Do we have that many jobs opening annually? I don't know
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lol... what the hell school as 625 students in a single graduating class?
even HICP didn't come close to that, haha
you probably haven't had the privilege of working with some god-awful retail floaters, consider yourself lucky (then again the last time i worked retail was in 2008).
loll..oops...my math sucks. I added in another zero. Oh, then I guess we're okay.
must be one of the new expansion school pharmacists....
What lawsuits? It would be as easy to fire a Pharmacists as it would be any employee.
What you are saying does not make any sense. It is the older more expensive Pharmacists who need to worry. It would be very easy for a company to fire higher wage Pharmacists and replace then with a new grad with 100k plus in student loan debt who is ready to snap up any job at any wage.
