<p>Should I:</p>
<p>A: Just look for schools that offer pharmacy program?</p>
<p>B: Look for schools that don't offer pharmacy program as well?</p>
<p>I'm confused. Because I found some great schools, but since I'm thinking of becoming a pharmacist, maybe I have to forget about these schools... or should I?</p>
<p>unless you do a 5-6-7 year program there isn't really an advantage to going to a school with a pharmacy program for both undergrad and the pharm.d. program. of course you could go to a school with a pharmacy program for undergrad but it's not going to help or hurt your chances of getting into a graduate pharmacy program.</p>
<p>Thanks! (10 char)</p>
<p>I'd find a place to spend 6 years that you like. If you leave after a couple of years for pharm school you will have no friends and start over. That would ruin college.</p>
<p>I'd find a place to spend 6 years that you like. If you leave after a couple of years for pharm school you will have no friends and start over. That would ruin college.</p>
<p>it's not like everyone at said school would want to stay for 6 years....s/he could be stuck at some college for 6 years while all the friends s/he made left to go to some other graduate school</p>
<p>Well, you have at least four years at the undergrad type level which is when most of the fun happens. Grad school is less fun and more work. Most people very much like their schools--around 80-90+% are happy where they are.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responces! I'm not so sure where I want to go yet, but recently I realized going to a LAC sounds interesting too, even though not many of them have pharmacy program. So I was wondering if it really matters for a school I'm going first to have a pharmacy program.</p>
<p>Please indulge me a potentially rude question. I've often wondered about the field of pharmacy, but wouldn't ask this of any of the pharmacists who I know personally. Just what does one study in a pharmacy curriculum? I assume that there was a time when pharmacists actually prepared medicines, but now they read the prescription and fill it from a commercially prepared sources. I'm sure that they'd need to be savvy about potential drug interactions - so that would be one course - but I have no idea what would require years of study.</p>
<p>gadad---pharmacist do more than just dispense meds and type labels. Many prescriptions today still require the pharmacy to "compound" the med--basically make it from scratch. That includes many ointment/creams/suppository kind of meds.</p>
<p>Courses in pharm. school
<a href="http://www.usip.edu/major/pharmacy.shtml%5B/url%5D">www.usip.edu/major/pharmacy.shtml</a></p>
<p>rats, doesn't work</p>
<p>go to usp.edu and majors</p>