Two Kentucky schools offering fast-track pharmacy degree

[khaki]

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“We are responding to the region’s call for more graduates in this field,” Wallace said. “It is especially important for students to realize that they will finish with two very marketable degrees after five short years of study both here at IU Southeast and at Sullivan University.”

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[khaki]

From where they get such info for the need for more graduates !

 

[ZakMeister]

Sullivan had an accelerated course to begin with. Hating this commercialization of our profession

 

[Rukn]

Fast degree
Fast scripts
Fast money

 

[ChalupaBatman86]

Your ticket to life in the fast lane. Fast cars, fast women, booze. You can even eat fast food!

 

[297point1]

Nothing new...
Nothing to see here.

 

[Lexington2012]

I don't like the idea of Pharmacy being advertised as a 5-year degree. It cheapens the value of a PharmD.

In my opinion, ACPE should require a 4-year degree before students begin their P1 year.

 

[PharMed2016]

No added value here except that you graduate with a useless B.S degree and probably an additional 20-30k extra in debt. Only advantage I see here is if you decide to go back to medical school where some programs require a bachelors degree (ie LECOM).

 

[khaki]

No added value here except that you graduate with a useless B.S degree and probably an additional 20-30k extra in debt. Only advantage I see here is if you decide to go back to medical school where some programs require a bachelors degree (ie LECOM).

Thats true

 

[gwarm01]

No added value here except that you graduate with a useless B.S degree and probably an additional 20-30k extra in debt. Only advantage I see here is if you decide to go back to medical school where some programs require a bachelors degree (ie LECOM).

Can't sub the PharmD for the bachelors requirement?

 

[Lexington2012]

Can't sub the PharmD for the bachelors requirement?

What other doctorate program allows admission without a bachelors degree?

 

[PharMed2016]

Can't sub the PharmD for the bachelors requirement?

Unfortunately, some programs have that hard requirement which will auto-filter you. Definitely came up during my application process.

 

[Digsbe]

What other doctorate program allows admission without a bachelors degree?

Most professional programs seem to have some ways for people to get around needing a bachelors. I've heard of some medical programs that will admit 3rd year bachelor's students if they have all their pre-reqs done (but they usually also have to be exceptional).

I do think pharmacy should require a BS or at least 3 years minimum of undergrad work. To be honest I don't see how you could do all the pre-reqs in 1 year. Do you take Gen chem and organic at the same time? I wish AACP would try to prevent stuff like this from happening. Schools did away with the BS.Pharm to require the PharmD as a "clinical doctorate" and now some programs are pretty much trying to water down a PharmD. I don't see how you can do it in 5 years even with full summers, especially if their pre-reqs are anything beyond freshman level courses and you need those as pre-reqs to take higher level classes like orgo, biochem, microbiology, etc. 5 years is far far far too short, heck in my opinion 6 and 7 are too short too.

 

[PharMed2016]

^ I think they are essentially running a 2+3 = 5 program. If I recall correctly, Sullivan is a 3-year accelerated program already before this was ever announced.

 

[UofK]

And what's even worse...