practicing and teaching?

[badxmojo]

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hi, heres question for you people.. do any of you work in hospitals and also teach at universities? its something i'm intrested in doing..but i don't know if i'll have the time.. but i have heard that there are people who do this.

 

[LVPharm]

I'm still a student, but I thought you might want to see this. This is from one of my school's job description for
"professor of pharmacy practice":

The College is currently seeking applicants for full-time Pharmacy Practice faculty positions. Salaries are highly competitive and rank is commensurate with qualifications and experience. In lieu of tenure, the College offers renewable, multiyear contracts. Responsibilities include teaching in didactic blocks (therapeutics and/or electives), precepting students on clinical rotations, performing scholarly endeavors, and serving the College and community. In addition, faculty members will maintain a clinical practice involving direct patient care.

The successful candidate should have excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to work effectively with other healthcare personnel. Minimum requirements include a Pharm.D. degree with residency and/or fellowship training (or comparable experience) and demonstration of scholarly endeavors. Candidates with expertise in the following areas are encouraged to apply: cardiology, infectious disease, ambulatory care, critical care, pediatrics, internal medicine, hematology-oncology, and psychiatry.

...so, maintaining a practice with direct patient care (clinical pharmacy/pharmaceutical care) is a must. Many of our PharmD professors who teach the clinical blocks in our P2 year also are clinical pharmacists at local medical centers. Because we are on a block curriculum schedule, professors spend quite a bit of their time working at their clinical practice, precepting students, etc. How this works at most other colleges of pharmacy who operate on the "standard curricular structure"? I don't know.

 

[badxmojo]

thanks for the reply lvpharm..was very helpful... I wonder if those professors work full time while they are teaching.. I wouldn't wanna teach if I couldn't find the time to be avaialable for the students if they had questions.. but the thought of being able to teach and practice sounds very exciting and fufilling.. and if you get an extra salary for teaching that would be even better..bling bling! do you think they're teacher salaries and practice salaries are seperate?

 

[LVPharm]

Yeah, I don't know quite how it works. I know that some schools, especially ones affiliated with a medical center will have co-funded positions at the hospital for their pharmacy practice professors. This one doesn't specifically say that. I'm assuming the professor would pull two salaries in this case: one from the practice site, another from the school....but I could be wrong 😉

You could try checking the "career opportunities" sections at the websites of different pharm schools to give you a broader idea of how this works at other places....look for "pharmacy practice" professor.

 

[Heyyyyy]

LVPharm, do you refer your professors(with only pharmD degree) as Dr.X?

 

[Ivorymist]

From what I've seen at my school there are 3 profs who also work at a hospital - two of them are clinical Rphs and one is a staff Rphs. Supposedly you are "not supposed to" do that but apparently they found a way around it. They do get two salaries though....which of course couldn't hurt 😉

And also, most profs are called "Dr.X" if they have the PharmD degree. But away from an academic setting they seem to get called "Mr.X" and "Ms.X" and such.

 

[LVPharm]

yes, in academic setting (ie, when they teach didactic courses or are precepting students in a hospital) we refer to PharmD's as Dr.X. PharmD's who you happen to work with when you work as an intern (for pay, outside of class in retail or hospital) or work as a tech...are often on first-name basis (exept for the director of pharmacy at the hospital I work at...everyone calls him Dr.X, so I follow suit). The same goes for our preceptors in retail pharmacy (even when part of the experiential rotation).