New Pharmacy Schools

[angelil_yu]

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Anyone knows exactly how many new pharmacy schools are open??

I figure that it's opened everywhere, especially in NY I already heard about 2 new schools.

So far, 3 of my current professors are gonna leave after this semester. 1 is going to a new school, 1 is going to another pharmacy school, and 1 is not sure yet.

Makes me wonder what's really going on in here...

 

[Shmy2008]

How new is "new" - does "new" include just schools that are opening their doors to students for the first time this year or does it include schools that have yet to graduate a class (i.e. may have two or three classes of students, but no P4s yet)?

As far as wondering whats really going on in here... I must have missed the part that we're wondering about. If its over why professors would leave and go to a new school... its a pretty good resume builder, if you ask me. Secondly, pharmacy is a very fluid profession - because it is so easy to move from one retail chain to another (and we won't discuss why, because its infuriating to me that it happens so frequently) and so easy to move between academia, clinical, and hospital work, pharmacists are constantly on the move. If the wondering was about why professors were leaving NY... I can only imagine that its because its late March and its still snowing 😀

 

[28657]

Makes me wonder what's really going on in here...

Yeah...makes me wonder too. It seems like everyone is opening a pharmacy school. For example, what the heck is a Christian university doing by opening up a "science/evidence-based" pharmacy school....ahem Palm Beach Atlantic!

 

[Abilify]

Yeah...makes me wonder too. It seems like everyone is opening a pharmacy school. For example, what the heck is a Christian university doing by opening up a "science/evidence-based" pharmacy school....ahem Palm Beach Atlantic!

Are you saying that the school uses a bible based approach or something? What about Samford, Campbell, Creighton, or Loma Linda?

 

[angelil_yu]

How new is "new" - does "new" include just schools that are opening their doors to students for the first time this year or does it include schools that have yet to graduate a class (i.e. may have two or three classes of students, but no P4s yet)?

As far as wondering whats really going on in here... I must have missed the part that we're wondering about. If its over why professors would leave and go to a new school... its a pretty good resume builder, if you ask me. Secondly, pharmacy is a very fluid profession - because it is so easy to move from one retail chain to another (and we won't discuss why, because its infuriating to me that it happens so frequently) and so easy to move between academia, clinical, and hospital work, pharmacists are constantly on the move. If the wondering was about why professors were leaving NY... I can only imagine that its because its late March and its still snowing 😀

What i meant new schools are those that are NEWLY open for students....Seems like it's a truly growing business to open one 😉

ANd today, my 3 instructors (3 of the best ones) who are leaving after this semester clarified the reasons, which was because they are looking forward to other opportunities in other places to achieve their long-term goal.

 

[kwizard]

What i meant new schools are those that are NEWLY open for students....Seems like it's a truly growing business to open one 😉

ANd today, my 3 instructors (3 of the best ones) who are leaving after this semester clarified the reasons, which was because they are looking forward to other opportunities in other places to achieve their long-term goal.

The professors have to at least consider the gamble to go to these new schools of pharmacy. Not sure if anyone has checked recently, but the pay for pharmacy faculty isn't the greatest (check out http://www.aacp.org/ and click on link at the bottom "2004-5 Profile of Pharmacy Faculty" under the "Institutional Data" section. Not sure if direct link will work:
http://www.aacp.org/Docs/MainNavigation/InstitutionalData/6420_PPF0405.pdf

But anyways...even after you get tenured in academia that doesn't necessarily mean you get a significant pay (just secures your job). The more "prestigious" pharmacy schools tend to pay the least so unless you can make up that 20-30k/yr consulting on the speakers bureau or lecture circuit; your best means for improving the income is to move up (i.e. become dept chair, coordinate various programs and/or become Dean). Moving up is kind of hard in academia b/c the line ahead of you is already filled w/ those who have already been riding it out for a few years so when that new pharmacy school opens up it is an oppurtunity to renegotiate and potentially move up the ladder a whole lot quicker somewhere else. It's not all about the money, but everyone ideally would like to have their cake and be able to eat it too (enjoy going to work everyday and being paid well for doing so). Off the subject a bit, but just my 2 cents.