pharmacy practice faculty job

[PharmD or nursing]

Hi
How about the pharmacy faculty job market in the following years? Saturated? very competitive?
Is faculty a secure position? I mean job security.

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[Dred Pirate]

Hi
How about the pharmacy faculty job market in the following years? Saturated? very competitive?
Is faculty a secure position? I mean job security.

meander over to the job forum and you will see the hot mess that is the pharmacist market right now.
A faculty job is often seen as a "unicorn job". They are very hard to get, once you get the job and obtain tenure, of course you are set (assuming you don't work for one of the many school that are seeing declining enrollment and starting to cut faculty.

 

[297point1]

Many pharmacy practice positions aren't tenure track. That doesn't mean they aren't secure, but they are less secure than the faculty in the pharmaceutical sciences (which are almost always tenure track positions). When budget problems lead to a reduction in workforce, it is the staff who get let go first, and then the non-tenured faculty.

Agree with @Dred Pirate - if security is what you are seeking, check a school's recent enrollment numbers (go back 10 years if you are able) and make sure the place isn't entering a death spiral [some schools are already dead, but nobody's told them yet].

 

[Dred Pirate]

Many pharmacy practice positions aren't tenure track. That doesn't mean they aren't secure, but they are less secure than the faculty in the pharmaceutical sciences (which are almost always tenure track positions). When budget problems lead to a reduction in workforce, it is the staff who get let go first, and then the non-tenured faculty.

Agree with @Dred Pirate - if security is what you are seeking, check a school's recent enrollment numbers (go back 10 years if you are able) and make sure the place isn't entering a death spiral [some schools are already dead, but nobody's told them yet].

true - I should have clarified "if tenure tract" - most of those are PhD's - the pharmd's that work for schools are much less likely to be tenured.

 

[lord999]

PharmDs that do not contribute to funding objectives never are tenure track. It’s actually a relatively secure position nevertheless as you are paid beneath market rates for overload work. That is until you make too much and can’t make your practice plan numbers (or for a reason that we academicians have crude jokes about which besides the politically incorrect nature, still are true).

Tenure is absolutely unnecessary for most tenured faculty as a paradox. Anyone who earns tenure, it’s a low cost way to keep them as they could walk elsewhere. Anyone who needs tenure doesn't deserve it.

 

[297point1]

Anyone who needs tenure doesn't deserve it.

I've never thought about it like that before...but that is so spot on.

 

[njac]

Hi
How about the pharmacy faculty job market in the following years? Saturated? very competitive?
Is faculty a secure position? I mean job security.

Clinical faculty positions can be tough - watching lots of friends struggle with finding the balance when you answer to both the college of pharmacy the medical center where you practice.

Especially as other faculty members leave and their duties and courses get redistributed.