<p>Know anybody who got their pharmacy degree and applyed to med school? Would that be useful in going to med school since you have a in depth knowledge of drugs?</p>
<p>Not really, completely different things. If thats what interests you go ahead, but I think you will have a harder time getting into med school due to lower GPA from pharm.</p>
<p>wait, isn't pharmacy school relatively easy to get a high GPA compared to engineering or physics?</p>
<p>No, it is not. No science is easy to get high grades in.</p>
<p>Why would you put yourself through two graduate degrees that have nothing to do with each other, just in order to get to a terminal MD?</p>
<p>I mean, I could understand a career change, but getting a PharmD as a stepping stone to an MD? Pure masochism.</p>
<p>Actually they have alot to do with each other. They are both medicine.</p>
<p>No, they're not. Pharmacists compound and dispense medication. Allopaths and osteopaths diagnose illness and prescribe cures; essentially it is the practical science of preventing and curing diseases. They serve two very different roles in the United States.</p>
<p>I thought you said pharmacist don't compound medicine anymore? Actually they serve the same role. To treat the patient. They both must have an extensive knowledge of anatomy and chemistry.</p>
<p>When did I say that? </p>
<p>No, they don't. Pharmacists cannot PRESCRIBE medicine, they can only DISPENSE it. Get it?</p>
<p>This kid obviously knows very little about medicine. Running around in all sorts of threads sprouting wrong info. Look at his other posts.
And for the original poster, Pharmacists only dispense, sometimes they might do medicine research but thats rare. There are lots of things that are medicine but they don't relate to being a doctor. Just because you are an OR Tech doesn't mean you can do brain surgery. Sure you can hand instruments to the surgeon but thats the extent of your medical practice. They are both medicine but no where near being the same thing.</p>
<p>As a prepharmacy student with a pharmacist mom, the idea of going to pharmacy school just to get a an application boost for med school is completely ridiculous. Pharm. D.'s are sometimes allowed to prescribe and dispense meds in a clinical setting, but the vast majority simply dispense and counsel. The classes in pharmacy school are far more chemically oriented than those in med school, and having both terminal degrees would not benefit a salary in any significant way. If you want to be a doctor, go to med school. If you want to be a pharmacist, go to pharmacy school.</p>
<p>I do know someone who started out prepharmacy and ended up as a doctor, and I know another who ended up in nursing, so it is possible to change tracks. But it seems to me that once you make the gpa and mcat cuts for medical school, you have to get over the interview and resume hurdle. I think your chances are enhanced if you have an interesting major and a passion for your work. Dry pragmatism does not seem to go that far. The young man I know who did switch was really interested in research and had a very solid reason for his change in plans. For some reason, it does not sound so interesting to be a prepharmacy major to become a doctor unless you have some well thought out reasons. I am not really sure that there is that much of a difference between being premed and prepharmacy. I suppose that if the program (prepharmacy) truly interests you as a course of study as a pre med, it could work, however.</p>