Jesus wept
Apparently certain frats had build up banks of old test questions.
Kappa Psi douches were notorious for this at my CoP
Same at my COP.
I agree, I wonder if I am smarter or dumber when it comes to tests now vs when I graduated.
They would assign each other questions numbers to memorize. I.e. student Jim memorizes questions 1 & 2. Student Anne memorizes 3 &4. They then get together and write out the exam basically
Every single tech under the age of 25 I have had in the past 5 or 6 years has publicly declared they have anxiety.
I’ve only worked with three that I can think of in the past five years but two of them did suffer from anxiety attacks so you may be on to something here.
I think we just have a bad sample as the lot that got into pharmacy school was objectively unqualified to be there in the first place. And this proves it.
Again, who is responsible for that? We have our hands on the levers to control that. Is it not our job to intervene and ensure the continuity of our species?
Exactly, pharmacy isn’t naturally attracting the best and brightest to begin with….
It's also a 8-9 year pursuit, when it was a 4-6 year when I got in. The other issue is admissions. We aren't admitting techs anymore after the PharmD became the standard (it used to be a hard requirement for admission that you had 400-800 hours of background, preferably paid). The other issue is that schools are now afraid to fail substandard people. I can say clearly that Buffalo, Florida, Iowa, Rutgers, Pitt, Temple, and Purdue had stringent pass considerations to the degree of being overly abusive during my generation. No pharmacy school would let their students graduate without them being certain that they would pass NAPLEX.
One of my techs informed me that "FaceBook is for old people".
Probably because Facebook is for old people
I can't stress this enough to students who rotate through my site. The Texas pharmacy law book is longer than the Texas medical board book, two dental examiner books stacked on top of each other, and three veterinary board law books stacked on top of each other. Dispensing Xanax to a patient is more regulated by the state than open heart surgery, root canals, and elephant birthing. Innovation never comes from the government, it always comes from the private sector. Pharmacy innovation is decades behind schedule because the board simply won't allow it. We either have to convince the board to allow what we want to do OR we have to get our state legislators to write a bill. Oh yeah, our legislature only meets every other year and the Lt Governor sets the agenda. Doesn't matter if the bill passes the House unanimously, if the Lt Gov doesn't want to hear it he won't hear it. It's ridiculous. This profession is ridiculous. Can't wait to retire and get the hell out. Make no mistake about it: if I win the lottery I'm done. I'm mailing my license back to the board with a photo of me flipping the double bird.
I noticed this as well with my own program - also figured the change may have had some correlation with last years NABP release date being much later than this most recent cycle.
Everything you said. Esp the part about pharmacy schools not letting students graduate if they weren't certain they were capable of passing the NAPLEX (or NABPLEX for the really old people like me.) My school had something like a 96% pass rate while I was attending. There were several 6 or 7 years students (this was when it was a 5 year program), because students were flunked and forced to repeat classes if they didn't have the bare minimum basic understanding. The school was proud to say that every graduate could pass (of course, sometimes illness or stress gave someone a bad test day, and kept the pass rate from being 100%.......and the 1 gal who was rumored to have slept her way through school, she never did pass the NABPLEX and went on to be a drug rep--I have no doubt she was quite successful at that, but everyone who was in her class or attended school when she was there knew about her because she was a rare example of someone who never passed the NABPLEX after multiple tries. Well that, and her Playboy spread also ensured that everyone knew about her....)
I don’t know how much more they can dumb it down considering it was a minimum competency test….
unfortunately I think you are probably correct - instead of schools saying- wow, we have crappy graduates and trying to be more selective (which means lost tuition $$), they will say how the test isn't fair or too hard in some way. They might even show how the number of graduates have decreased and we need to stave off an upcoming shortage or some BS like that.
