<p>Best pharmacy school?</p>
<p>University of Pacific?
UC SD?
Any others? </p>
<p>Discuss.</p>
<p>Not sure what you mean by best pharmacy school.</p>
<p>All accredited Pharmacy schools are equally good. It's just like comparing medical schools. They all train you to be a good pharmacist and get your registration. They all have pretty much the same basic requirements before you get your licensure. </p>
<p>There are no bad pharmacy schools. If there were, they would not be accredited.</p>
<p>Well the same argument could be applied to engineering schools. Berkeley, MIT, and Caltech are all ranked as the best engineering schools in the US. Perhaps I worded it incorrectly, but I suppose you can get the gist of it from my example.</p>
<p>Castel: the gist of it depends upon what exactly you want to do with your PharmD degree!
If you just want to be a regular Phamacist working at a pharmacy, all schools as long as you get the degree is the best school. Thousands of posts have been made on the topic of what does it mean to be a 'better' pharmacy/medical school....</p>
<p>Hi Folks,</p>
<p>If you wish to pursue a PharmD, your choice of Pharmacy schools has mos recently expanded. Most Pharm schools no longer offer BPharm any more with the exception of a few (one in Ohio that I know of). Majority offer PharmD directly after HS. </p>
<p>If you wish to rate Pharm schools like people rate regular Universities, you will find that you actually can not do this. The reason is because none of the Ivy league even have Pharmacy schools! There are no Harvard, Yale, MIT Pharmacy schools. They may have Pharmacology departments where you can pursue a PhD in Pharmacology but not a PharmD.</p>
<p>Again, in terms of pharm school rating, they all offer the accredited and comparable programs. Core courses are pretty much the same; Human physiology, Pharmacology, anatomy, pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutics, medicinal chem, etc.</p>
<p>If you wish to pick a "visible" name, select a Pharmacy school in the Northeast, or in UC system, or in the Chicago area. These schools may be more known due to name recognition.</p>
<p>However, UBuffalo has used to have some eminent pharmacokineticists, Dr Gibaldi and the like on their faculty. If PK interests you, UBuffalo is worth it.
If you are looking for a Pharma R&D job, I would suggest applying to Pharm schools that are either in NY, NJ or CA coasts. These have affiliations with Pharma companies and can provide you an in-road to Pharma R&D, esp internships following your PharmD.</p>
<p>PharmD straight after HS? Really? You'd just skip any kind of Bachelor's whatsoever?</p>
<p>I have to admit that I have not recently checked into admission details myself but heard about it from a friend... that now a days, most pharm schools offer PharmDs only. I think these are 6 yr programs + internship of 2 yrs.</p>
<p>I will try to research the numbers and get back to you folks.</p>
<p>Here's the 6 yr PharmD program Rutgers offers.
It's 2 yrs preprof+4 yrs prof (generally + 2 yrs internship).</p>
<p>What are PharmD's if I may ask. BTW Pharmagal post #5 was extremely informative. Thank you!</p>
<p>Pharm.D</a>. Admissions: Application Process Regular Applicants
Here's a post of SUNY Buffalo.</p>
<p>PharmDs have various choices -
* You could work in a hospital as a Pharmacists, or at drug stores
* You can do rotations (normally 2 yrs) in Pharma companies.
In pharma R&D, you can pursue many different options, depending on what you like</p>
<p>I am a Clinical Pharmacologist myself. A Pharmacologist conducts exploratory research. First in man studies, investigative work of safety,tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics (what the body does to the drug/absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion), study PK/PD correlations, PD (pharmacodynamics - what the drug does to the body), PET exploratory studies to understand receptor occupancy, receptor t1/2, drug-drug interaction, food effect, and Proof of Concept, Proof of Principle studies, early Phase 2a studies to name a few</p>
<p>Pharmacokineticist - all conc/time results for drug substances from human trials go to these folks. They are experts in number-crunching with WINNONLIN, they give us the PK, PK/PD profiles, correlations, projections of efficacious exposures, safety margins etc. Help pharmacologists in perfecting study designs and writing clinical study reports.</p>
<p>If you pick up any package insert, you will notice that half the information comes from ClinPharmcology area and the other half from Ph3.</p>
<p>Other choices are- Phase 3 research (which establishes safety and efficacy in large numbers of patients -generally thousands). </p>
<p>Phase 4- Long term Follow up studies, new indications, new formulations research studies, Medical safety/safety surveillance : these medical officers work with all clinical research phases. One MD or PharmD is assigned per each project to see to follow up SAEs (serious adverse events) and safety followup.</p>
<p>Regulatory affairs - As a PharmD, you can also work in this area. RA reps liase between Clinical researchers and various health authorities (FDA, EMEA, Japanese HA etc). You will get trained in a therapeutic area of your interest and get trained wrt what each agency recommends/desires in each submission package. Regulations vary greatly within TAs region to region. RA reps help us design a clinical study that will help us get drug approvals.</p>
<p>Medical Education officers/Regional officers - these professionals teach sales force and also interact with investigators in various regions to present our results in conferences.</p>
<p>These are a few examples of what you can do in Pharma R&D.</p>
<p>You can also seek a position that mirrors any of the above at the FDA.</p>
<p>Please excuse my spelling/editing errors........too tired to spell/grammer check.
Hope you can read through it though. I am only half human at this time since my day starts at 5:30 am to enable telecons with the other side of the globe.</p>
<p>i am a pre-pharm student as of now. i would love to get more information on hours of school in pharmacy school pre day, breaks, clinical pharmacy and is there any relationship with specialising in research for HIV/AIDS if you graduate with a pharmD ? thank you :)</p>
<p>@ bluedevilmike, Pharmagal</p>
<p>That “most pharmD schools offer programs right out of high school” is – to my knowledge – false. There are a select few 0+6 (straight out of high school) programs in the country. Don’t quote me on this, but I believe there are about a dozen 0+6 schools in the US. Most schools vary from requiring two years of prerequisite courses to a bachelors degree <em>before</em> applying to a pharmD program (Doctor of Pharmacy), which is four additional years. Anyone that graduated after 2003 must have a pharmD, but people that graduated with a bachelors in pharmacy before 2003 can practice under that degree as an RPh (registered pharmacist). PharmDs and RPhs have to pass the same licensure exams to practice. The only difference in the degree. Some people choose to do a residency (one or more years) after their pharmD, but I don’t have any stats on how many people actually do it. I just know that at my school about 30% of graduates go on to be placed in residencies.</p>
<p>@ Castel</p>
<p>As asifkhan said, there really is no official ranking of pharmD programs. One from 2008 exists, but it’s a peer ranking not an official AACP ranking (and AACP does not endorse this ranking). All students graduate with the same pharmD degree and all must pass the same licensure exams plus state exams in order to practice. Some people opt to add on a PhD, MBA or JD on top of their pharmD as well. That all schools are ultimately 100% equal is not true. Everyone that goes to high school and must pass the same exams (in general), but do they all receive the same education? Granted high schools will vary much more greatly than pharmacy schools will. But I digress… Some schools teach to the NAPLEX instead of for knowledge/practice, some schools are heavier on research, MTM, clinical, etc. You end up with and practice under the same degree that you obtain with a generally similar structure, but there will be variations between schools. The general consensus is that a school’s “ranking” doesn’t matter, but the connections you make in school and the local reputation of your school might.</p>
<p>@ pharmdita</p>
<p>You can specialize in almost anything once you have your pharmD, but many people that do do this do an additional residency after pharmacy school. I shadowed with two HIV/AIDS pharmacists as a pre-pharm years ago in our metro hospital. Chances are larger urban hospitals in your area also have an HIV/AIDS pharmacy as well. As for hours, breaks, etc… that will widely vary from person to person and school to school. As a general rule of thumb you can expect to be studying more than you did in undergrad, especially if you didn’t take a rigorous class load.</p>
<p>I recommend going through the AACP’s website to find out general information about pharmacy and pharmacy school. They will have the most accurate and most universal information. Here’s a link to the student center: [AACP</a> - Student Center](<a href=“http://www.aacp.org/resources/student/Pages/default.aspx]AACP”>http://www.aacp.org/resources/student/Pages/default.aspx)</p>
<p>As usual… please pardon any spelling and grammar mistakes :)</p>
Hello,
I am a rising senior in high school and wants to go to a pre-pharmacy school. Would you give me some advice some of the best pre-pharmacy school in California? Thank you so much!