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Summer breaks in Pharmacy school
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Time off in the summer will vary from school to school. As far as taking a leave of absence, each school will have their own policy.
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I think this also has to do with how long the program is. I know some of the 3 year PharmD programs run year round and actually begin during the summer.
you get summer breaks but most schools don't let you take a semester off unless you have some kind of health or family emergency.
Our school year follows the same timeline as the undergrads, so we get about three months off in the summer and the three weeks for winter break. That seems typical for pharm schools unless you are going to a three year program. After we finish our P3, we go straight into rotations for the whole year except for a seven week break that we get a say in when we want.
If you want to take a semester off, you would have to take the whole year off because classes are completed in sequence and only offered once a year.
If you want to take a semester off, you would have to take the whole year off because classes are completed in sequence and only offered once a year.
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Yeah, at my school summer break is 3.5 month, same as undergrads.
Many classes are only offered once a year, so you'd have to take a whole year off. With that said, I do know one person who's taking a full year off to do a co-op, so I guess that's doable.
Many classes are only offered once a year, so you'd have to take a whole year off. With that said, I do know one person who's taking a full year off to do a co-op, so I guess that's doable.
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Many schools run normal breaks, we have 3 week christmas break, 1 week spring break and 12 week summer break. Usually a couple days off for thanksgiving too.
Thanks for the reply. That sounds quite reasonable. How many years do the rotations last?
Also, fenixtnlfan, bacillus, and pumpkinsmasher, can you tell me which schools you guys attend?
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At Touro, we are going to have one month off and one month of rotations for this year.
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Yes we do get a week for spring break, two days for Thanksgiving, and a few other holidays in both semesters. Same schedule as the undergrads.
Rotations last for one year, so you graduate in May. I attend the University of Arizona.
Rotations last for one year, so you graduate in May. I attend the University of Arizona.
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I go to USP. Feel free to PM me any questions about the school. There are both positive and negative things about it.
I really appreciate it. I'll be sure to get in touch with you.
Every school varies, but in case anyone is interested in UT...
We get the P1 summer off to do our internship but no summer breaks from then on. We get a short break for thanksgiving and spring break. Fall of the P3 year we have the option to take the semester off if we do all the required classes + electives done in the summer semester beforehand. P4 year rotations start in the summer of the P3 year. (Hope that's not too confusing!) Basically... we get one summer off (but we have to work) and we have the option to take one semester off.
We get the P1 summer off to do our internship but no summer breaks from then on. We get a short break for thanksgiving and spring break. Fall of the P3 year we have the option to take the semester off if we do all the required classes + electives done in the summer semester beforehand. P4 year rotations start in the summer of the P3 year. (Hope that's not too confusing!) Basically... we get one summer off (but we have to work) and we have the option to take one semester off.
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My school allows for a leave of abscence, but I think there has to be a pretty good reason for it. We're required to finish the program in six years or it's goodbye to $100K in tuition. Not many people mess around with taking time off.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to hold off on ACL reconstruction surgery until after Pharmacy school. 6-9 months of rehab, not too good during school.
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We have to finish in 5 years and if you fail a class twice, you're out 🙁 At least we get 4 months summer off though. At UCSF, one of the interns I worked with said that they go straight through their second and third year.
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Semesters off = you're out for the year and fall back into the next year's class due to the lock step nature of the classes. My school will do a case by case basis, but I would imagine that if it's not medically/family related, you'll have to reapply.
Academic standard = 2 semesters of <3.0 and you're kicked out. Failure to achieve 3.0 by the start of your clinical rotations = dismissal. An F in any course dismisses you from the program outright.
Summer break: I wrap up finals the first week of May and start again just after labor day. So that's about... 4 months of vacation. I hope my brain doesn't rot, haha.
Winter break: I end on the 17th of December and return on the 12th of January, so just over 3 1/2 weeks.
Spring break: We get a week in February off.
This is for Jefferson School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia.
Academic standard = 2 semesters of <3.0 and you're kicked out. Failure to achieve 3.0 by the start of your clinical rotations = dismissal. An F in any course dismisses you from the program outright.
Summer break: I wrap up finals the first week of May and start again just after labor day. So that's about... 4 months of vacation. I hope my brain doesn't rot, haha.
Winter break: I end on the 17th of December and return on the 12th of January, so just over 3 1/2 weeks.
Spring break: We get a week in February off.
This is for Jefferson School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia.
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2 semesters under 3.0 and you're out? Damn, Jeff is making it tough for you all. If USP had that, probably a third of each class would fail. For us is 2 semesters under 2.3 and the third semester we're out (yet people still fail because P&T is hard and people are happy with Ds in it--but they're changing that up for us).
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yeah huh, but i do think they'd be more generous on the curve as a result. I remember as an undergrad they'd center the exam at C+ since all 450 students would have failed on the basis of a raw score.
I figure, so long as I'm in the top 1/3 of the class, I should have nothing to worry about 🙂 Curve mentality!
I wonder why it's 3.0...3/4 of our professors were plucked straight out of USP 😳
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Yeah I heard a lot of our profs got very generous offers to go to Jeff, and as a result they hired a bunch of new ones which aren't as qualified. Let's trade back.
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what year are you? hope you get to rotate at the Jeff hospital before my class hits P-4, I have a feeling we'll get priority when that comes around too. I see USP people all the time walking around and hanging out on the couches by our fish tank...now I kinda feel bad =(
I guess money/promotion talks. I remember our dean responding to a question about recruiting faculty and she made a point that (with the faculty lined up) we were looking at future deans and associate deans.
It makes sense, if you've been teaching for 3-4 years and a regionally prestigious school comes knocking, offers you $$, a promotion, and the chance to shape an entirely new curriculum...I feel like you'd be a fool not to take it. Even without the bump in pay/position, I'd love the idea of helping build something new.
Anyway, I'm rambling...you guys do have two things that we sorely lack, and that's tradition and upper years to look up to. Being the only pharmacy class (and soon to be only upper year students in the pharmacy program) is kind of a solitary experience.
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We're a regionally prestigious school too...
But yeah I see your point.
BTW congrats for sending one of your people to the APhA MRM. I think you'll have it all figured out in no time.
And about rotations, I'm a P1, so yeah we won't be able to do rotations at your hospital. There's always HUP and Hahnemann, and Crozer and hospitals in DE.
Alright, enough hijacking this thread.
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1) I know you guys are prestigious...weren't you the first pharmacy school in, like, the history of the US? You predate Jefferson by 3 years, I believe (1821 vs. 1824). I think the perception level is lower since you're a 0-6 school...I think I saw that and didn't bother clicking through on PharmCAS.
2) Didn't know we sent anyone to APhA MRM...haha. We JUST had our first "potential officer" meeting 2 weeks ago...for once, I'll let someone else handle EC's. I'm still hungover from undergrad.
3) Rotations...I think you'll be doing Jeff rotations, our health system is pretty big. With 75 students flat each class for the next 4 yrs, there should be room. Once that hits 150 for the P-4 class for 2015-2016, might be a different ballgame.
4) Yes, ok done hijacking. Back to topic... How many of you do IPPE's over the summer? I know Temple has to since they haven't integrated it into the new ACPE curriculum yet. Just curious...that would make this "summer vacation" thing a bit misleading if you've got IPPE's to knock out.
