Most useless class so far?

[pinkyrx]

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Of all the classes you've taken so far in pharmacy school, which one do you think has been the most useless?

My least favorite (most useless) class so far has been a pharmacy management class. I know that we will supposedly use some of the stuff we learned in that class eventually even if we don't go into management, but the class just wasn't my cup of tea.

 

[alwaystired]

Of all the classes you've taken so far in pharmacy school, which one do you think has been the most useless?

My least favorite (most useless) class so far has been a pharmacy management class. I know that we will supposedly use some of the stuff we learned in that class eventually even if we don't go into management, but the class just wasn't my cup of tea.

Pharmaceutics. Sorry to the teacher that taught it, he loves it. But I don't really care about the innert ingredients in the tablets or that tablets are coated with beeswax to give them a high luster. And I really don't care what HPMC is used for, since it seems to be used in almost any step you can think of. Sorry for the rant, but pharmaceutics seemed pointless to me.

 

[pharmaz88]

PS1 year

 

[imperial frog]

Qualitative Method in Pharmacy. I believe it was supposed to be a statistics class but instead it turned out to be a big-pain-in-the-ass class. Not hard, but it was excruciating to have to subject myself to the lectures.

 

[angelil_yu]

Professional Development Class

-writing journal every week + projects...... 🙁

 

[dgroulx]

Qualitative Method in Pharmacy. I believe it was supposed to be a statistics class but instead it turned out to be a big-pain-in-the-ass class. Not hard, but it was excruciating to have to subject myself to the lectures.

I agree whole-heartedly. The lectures were done in Macromedia, so you couldn't speed them up. The professort talked so slowly. My husband got annoyed hearing his voice from another room.

 

[Oxycotin]

medicinal chemistry. i mean, who will come up to you and ask to draw chemical structures?

 

[ButlerPharm.D.]

Medicinal chemistry rocks, where else can you hear a 70 year old medicinal chemist say, "give me meth or give me death"?

 

[usi]

medicinal chemistry. i mean, who will come up to you and ask to draw chemical structures?

I would expect you to know the structure for Oxycontin...

 

[Trancelucent1]

Medicinal chemistry rocks, where else can you hear a 70 year old medicinal chemist say, "give me meth or give me death"?

Oh so I guess they're all this wacky then. Our professor is awesome and really funny. For most drugs he can't spell them but he can draw them instead. He's great. I wouldn't call it useless as much as it's just not as important as some of the other things I learned.

I'm with James and Dana on the Quantitative Methods class...it was dreadful!

 

[jtwcamel]

Pharmaceutics probably has been the most boring class. Very hard to study for since the stuff doesnt matter in the least to me. Biochemistry was really boring also. We get two semesters and clinical was useful but the first semester was taught by a guy who has done mostly research of the mitochondria, so he leaned that way in his lectures. He was also obsessed with thermodynamics and long equations that we have not used since.

 

[ButlerPharm.D.]

ahhhhh the times I've had in med chem..Cholinergics...erection and ejaculation or if you prefer...point and shoot....you know....like a camera.

 

[twester]

Qualitative Method in Pharmacy. I believe it was supposed to be a statistics class but instead it turned out to be a big-pain-in-the-ass class. Not hard, but it was excruciating to have to subject myself to the lectures.

Oh, no! You guys are starting to really freak me out now. I'm in a statistics class this semester and it's absolutely saditistic in its boring-ness. The energy-level in the class is nearly comatose (including on the instructor's part).

I can't imagine doing it at a graduate level. Maybe I'll just go be a cow-groomer or a signpost-painter or something. I guess I'd better stop reading this thread - just in case an acceptance letter ever makes it into my mailbox.

 

[spacecowgirl]

Sadly, I can't think of just one. Med chem and biochem were utterly pointless for 99.99% of us and one pharmacy outcomes type class would have been sufficient rather than have various incarnations of it every semester.

I was going through old papers and recycling old notes and I realized that I retained so little from all of those reams and reams of paper. I would be a freakin' genius if I could remember even half of everything I have learned.

 

[imperial frog]

I agree whole-heartedly. The lectures were done in Macromedia, so you couldn't speed them up. The professort talked so slowly. My husband got annoyed hearing his voice from another room.

I knew you would agree. I think the whole school does.

 

[imperial frog]

Oh so I guess they're all this wacky then. Our professor is awesome and really funny. For most drugs he can't spell them but he can draw them instead. He's great. I wouldn't call it useless as much as it's just not as important as some of the other things I learned.

For the most part the classes seem to be useless for general pharmacy, but then every once in a while it allows you to put everything together to understand why classes of drugs work the way they do. Of course every pharmacist you talk to will say they never use it again.

 

[SomeGuy]

Does anyone use the book "Pharmaceutical Care Practice: The Clinician's Guide" ?