Teach and practice

[merger007]

Is anyone currently or considering teaching and practicing? Is a PharmD/PhD required or can one get by with a PharmD? What's the salary range?

 

[Brill]

You can teach at a pharmacy school with just a PharmD. Here's a good source for information about faculty at pharmacy schools. The average salary ranges from ~$70k as an assistant professor up to ~$113k as a full professor. There is currently a bill pending in the Senate that would, among other things, pay up to $35k/year in student loans if you commit to teach at a pharmacy school for a minimum of two years. I wonder how competitive faculty positions are for a PharmD to attain.

 

[LVPharm]

You can absolutely teach with a PharmD! You can become a "professor of pharmacy practice". You'll probably have to have completed a residency/fellowship training with a demonstration of "scholarly endeavours", ie., co-authored in journals, etc. My school requires that the professor maintain a clinical practice.

You can read a job description for this kind of position at my school in this thread http://www.studentdoctor.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76675

 

[LVPharm]

Here is a recent news article on the shortage of pharmacy school professors, and an effort to alleviate it:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030729/dcm024a_1.html