Pharmacy Experience - What's acceptable?

[JengerBear]

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Hello! So I've found it VERY difficult to find experience working under apharmacist at a local hospital/drug store. The hospitals have a long wait list and drugstores won't allow me to volunteer because of privacy laws. Anysuggestions?

I have 6 years experience working at a animal hospital where we do prescribeprescriptions. Although it's not thelargest pharmacy and I'm working under a veterinarian instead of a pharmacist ,could I apply those hours to meet by requirements?

Jen

 

[R2pharmD2]

Hello! So I've found it VERY difficult to find experience working under apharmacist at a local hospital/drug store. The hospitals have a long wait list and drugstores won't allow me to volunteer because of privacy laws. Anysuggestions?

I have 6 years experience working at a animal hospital where we do prescribeprescriptions. Although it's not thelargest pharmacy and I'm working under a veterinarian instead of a pharmacist ,could I apply those hours to meet by requirements?

Jen

If you're applying to a school that has an actual "hours of experience" requirement (I wasn't aware that such a thing existed for pharmacy programs?) then you should contact them and ask. Otherwise, don't worry about it. Plenty of people get in without any pharmacy experience whatsoever, although it is beneficial in other ways and I'd recommend that you keep trying to find something.

 

[xtsukiyox]

If you're applying to a school that has an actual "hours of experience" requirement (I wasn't aware that such a thing existed for pharmacy programs?) then you should contact them and ask.

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As someone far wiser & R2'ier than myself has said elsewhere, pharmacy experience can help make a fair-to-middlin' application stand out, but it won't necessarily break an application. OK, I paraphrased.

I think the experience you have at the vet can definitely turn into compelling personal statement / interview material. Also, it shows that you're passionate about something & more well-rounded.

PS, I worked in a medication room at a medical clinic for the uninsured working poor. It was the closest thing to pharmacy I could find outside my work hours (banking), since pharmacy would have been a pay/hour cut until I got experience. I worked under doctors, not a pharmacist, but I essentially keyed scripts & pulled drugs like a tech. The school I got into seemed to like it.