What is the stats for graduates that...

[moldovanits]

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Anybody know the statistics of how many people become pharmacists after they graduate from pharmacy schools?

 

[omnione]

Anybody know the statistics of how many people become pharmacists after they graduate from pharmacy schools?

Given that the NAPLEX passing rate for a decent school is above 90% and that relatively few people drop out, I would say that the percentage is really high.

Pharmacy school admissions committees spend all this time with us in order to weed out those who could drop out and/or can't handle professional school.😉

 

[moldovanits]

so you would say that everyone who finishes pharmacy school becomes a pharmacist? everyone?

 

[omnione]

so you would say that everyone who finishes pharmacy school becomes a pharmacist? everyone?

Well, every school I visited or looked into had a small minority of people who were kicked out due to poor academics or due to their own free will. I heard that a Creighton pharmacy student dropped off years ago to try to get a emcee gig for famous Vietnamese entertainment productions.😕

As I implied in my post, I don't have the exact stats though you could look in the accp.org site. I think that at least 80% of first-year PharmD students finish the program given NAPLEX passage rates.

 

[Farmercyst]

Do you mean a pharmacist in a pharmacy vs maybe a pharmacist doing research, regulatory role, etc.? Or how many become RPh? It seems to me there's not much point in going to pharmacy school if you don't want to be RPh. It's a whole different story if your asking how many choose to stay behind a counter vs desk vs lab bench.

 

[sdn1977]

so you would say that everyone who finishes pharmacy school becomes a pharmacist? everyone?

Yes - by definition, everyone who graduates from pharmacy school is a pharmacist.

However, as Farmercyst mentioned, not everyone chooses to become licensed for any number of reasons.

These numbers are difficult to weed out because we don't have a national licensing authority since even passing the NAPLEX is not sufficient to obtain licensing in some states (CA, for example). Likewise, many pharmacists maintain more than one license.

However, you can get an idea by tracking the NABP survey of state boards which is done annually. The total # of pharmacists licensed by the state boards from July 2005-July 2006 increased by 3.5%to 375,666. A more accurate picture are those pharmacists with in-state addresses increased by 3.7% to 254,556.

But, you can look at CA....the total licensed in that same year were 4,276. I can assure you, there were not 4,000 graduates from CA schools of pharmacy...so many were from other areas.

Some choose not to be licensed at all, particularly if they plan on never having dispensing functions, yet they are still pharmacists.

 

[PharmDream]

I know a few pharmacists who choose not to practice. There was a pharmacist who did not pass the boards, but took the MCAT and got accepted into med school. There are a few pharmacists who choose to be teachers because they hate filling prescriptions. Some of them however choose to practice only like one day a week.

 

[PepsiSucks]

that pharmacist must be ******ed then. If you can't pass the pharmacy boards, how can you expect to pass the USMLE which is a lot harder?