PGY-2 vs. Masters

[RxMTM]

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I know that both of these paths will take 2 years. However, I have heard that doing a Masters would allow you to do basic research. Is this true? For all of you that are wondering about drug development, etc...would this be a pathway to that? How about PGY-2? Does that allow you to do more specialized clinical research? What do you guys think and which pathway would you consider more viable?🙂

 

[iknow]

For you anything that would get you 100K should be fine. Isn't that what pharmacy is all about?

 

[p-rog]

I know that both of these paths will take 2 years. However, I have heard that doing a Masters would allow you to do basic research. Is this true? For all of you that are wondering about drug development, etc...would this be a pathway to that? How about PGY-2? Does that allow you to do more specialized clinical research? What do you guys think and which pathway would you consider more viable?🙂

A masters in what? You can get a masters degree in anything. Literally anything. In most cases, truly basic research is best suited for people with a PhD, but a masters coupled with the pharmD would potentially work. Clinical research gets pretty vague, but yes definitely someone with a PGY-2 is capable of doing clinical research and is a good candidate for a job in academia that would allow them to do so. If you want to do clinical research in industry, you should look into the industry-based fellowship programs. Whatever you do, my advice is to look up programs that are specifically targeted towards PharmD's.

 

[RxMTM]

A masters in what? You can get a masters degree in anything. Literally anything. In most cases, truly basic research is best suited for people with a PhD, but a masters coupled with the pharmD would potentially work. Clinical research gets pretty vague, but yes definitely someone with a PGY-2 is capable of doing clinical research and is a good candidate for a job in academia that would allow them to do so. If you want to do clinical research in industry, you should look into the industry-based fellowship programs. Whatever you do, my advice is to look up programs that are specifically targeted towards PharmD's.

I was thinking a Masters in pharmaceutical sciences which would include toxicology, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, etc. I know there are a lot of combination programs out there such as PharmD/PhD, PharmD/MBA, and PharmD/M.S.

 

[p-rog]

Any of pharmaceutical sciences would work as an area of specialization. However, if that's really what you want to do, you should consider just sticking around and getting the PhD (if you're thinking industry, a PhD will make a lot more money that way in the long run). I don't recommend you jump into this though. Make sure you get some lab experience in some of these areas while you're in pharm school before you go applying to any basic science grad program.

 

[StaviZFingerZ]

Any of pharmaceutical sciences would work as an area of specialization. However, if that's really what you want to do, you should consider just sticking around and getting the PhD (if you're thinking industry, a PhD will make a lot more money that way in the long run). I don't recommend you jump into this though. Make sure you get some lab experience in some of these areas while you're in pharm school before you go applying to any basic science grad program.

This barely finished p1 has been throwing around non traditional pharmacy topic all over the board while thrashing his classmates for not knowing that PharmD is a doctorate. I guess just being a typical retail or hospital pharmacist isn't good enough or something... but it's amusing nonetheless..😴