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EDIT: I'm going to move this to the thread with Belmont, but feel free to offer your opinions 🙂
Hi guys, thanks for reading my thread and (possibly) answering my question. Also, my apologies if these questions have been asked before. I tried to do my own research before posting anything, so if you could provide me with an answer, it'd be much appreciated.
So I've been a premed pretty much all my life. I spent my college years (class of '09) trying to do things geared for med school- taking the prereqs, volunteering, research, etc etc. In fact, I have about 10 MCAT books on my shelf, since I've been studying for it. But after graduating, and thinking about what I want to do for the REST of my life, I decided that maybe pharmacy is a better choice for me.
Just some background info about me:
Graduate of Johns Hopkins U w/ 3.57 overall gpa. My major gpa is something like a 3.7 or 3.8 (I'm not trying to brag, I just don't know how much pharmacy schools take into consideration your major gpa). HOWEVER my science gpa is not so great, somewhere at a 3.1 or 3.2 ish. But maybe I can bring that up, considering I haven't taken some of the pre-req courses for certain schools (like anatomy/microbio). Oh, and I have a very steep upward trend. Going from a ~3.1 first semester to a ~3.9 last semester, which increases each semester.
Now for my question:
- I'm interested in becoming a clinical or hospital pharmacist. As far as I understand, the route to getting there is first getting your pharmD, and then doing clinical residencies afterwards? So how does the PhD or masters in pharmacy play in all this? Do I need to get a phD in order to become a clinical pharmacist?
-How does the name of your undergraduate institution play a role (if any) in admissions?
-Does pharmacy school consider GPA trends? (I know med schools do to a certain extent.)
-Finally, how do you guys manage to shadow pharmacists? Do you just call them, then ask them to shadow? I would preferably like to shadow one in the hospital, so I can't really just come up to CVS and ask them.
Also, I'm not trying to compare med and pharm school in any way, and neither am I choosing pharmacy simply because "I won't get into med school". It's a matter of which career path is the better one for me, and since up until yesterday, I was still the MCAT- so I have a lot of researching to do.
Thanks guys!
Hi guys, thanks for reading my thread and (possibly) answering my question. Also, my apologies if these questions have been asked before. I tried to do my own research before posting anything, so if you could provide me with an answer, it'd be much appreciated.
So I've been a premed pretty much all my life. I spent my college years (class of '09) trying to do things geared for med school- taking the prereqs, volunteering, research, etc etc. In fact, I have about 10 MCAT books on my shelf, since I've been studying for it. But after graduating, and thinking about what I want to do for the REST of my life, I decided that maybe pharmacy is a better choice for me.
Just some background info about me:
Graduate of Johns Hopkins U w/ 3.57 overall gpa. My major gpa is something like a 3.7 or 3.8 (I'm not trying to brag, I just don't know how much pharmacy schools take into consideration your major gpa). HOWEVER my science gpa is not so great, somewhere at a 3.1 or 3.2 ish. But maybe I can bring that up, considering I haven't taken some of the pre-req courses for certain schools (like anatomy/microbio). Oh, and I have a very steep upward trend. Going from a ~3.1 first semester to a ~3.9 last semester, which increases each semester.
Now for my question:
- I'm interested in becoming a clinical or hospital pharmacist. As far as I understand, the route to getting there is first getting your pharmD, and then doing clinical residencies afterwards? So how does the PhD or masters in pharmacy play in all this? Do I need to get a phD in order to become a clinical pharmacist?
-How does the name of your undergraduate institution play a role (if any) in admissions?
-Does pharmacy school consider GPA trends? (I know med schools do to a certain extent.)
-Finally, how do you guys manage to shadow pharmacists? Do you just call them, then ask them to shadow? I would preferably like to shadow one in the hospital, so I can't really just come up to CVS and ask them.
Also, I'm not trying to compare med and pharm school in any way, and neither am I choosing pharmacy simply because "I won't get into med school". It's a matter of which career path is the better one for me, and since up until yesterday, I was still the MCAT- so I have a lot of researching to do.
Thanks guys!
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