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Pharmacy From point A to B

Pharmacy From point A to B. A brief lecture on how to reach pharmacy school from UC Merced Presented by: Sean E. Stafford. Why Pharmacy?. A career that is needed in an ever expanding health care field. Highly demanded Excellent pay, median salary ~$90,000

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Pharmacy From point A to B

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  1. PharmacyFrom point A to B A brief lecture on how to reach pharmacy school from UC Merced Presented by: Sean E. Stafford

  2. Why Pharmacy? • A career that is needed in an ever expanding health care field. • Highly demanded • Excellent pay, median salary ~$90,000 • Chemistry and drug interaction expert • Work in hospital, retail, or research • Never on call, able to have a ‘life’

  3. What do Pharmacists do? • Provide supervision, care, and counseling to patients in pharmacies and hospitals • Develop and research drugs. • Share their wealth of knowledge about drug mechanisms and effects to better the every day lives of patients with the collaboration of other doctors. • Chemists that care.

  4. Where do I start? • Start in college as any major • Plan to complete the required pre-requisite classes for Pharmacy schools before college completion. • Coordinate with counselor to see which classes are equivalent to pre-requisites.

  5. Long term goals • Keep GPA above 3.5, excel in science classes. • Do research, lab, or volunteer work • Obtain 3-5 letters of recommendation • Keep updated constantly with dates, deadlines, and requirements.

  6. Classes • (Cue excel classes)

  7. Work/ Lab/ Volunteer experience • All extracurricular work looks excellent on resume/ transcripts • Very beneficial, more time spent = highly favorable to admissions committee • Publications, total work hours, letters of recommendations show proof of hard work. The more the better.

  8. Letters of Recommendation • Generally 3 from faculty that know you best • Usually 2 letters from Bio science faculty, 1 from non-major (research professor, volunteer coordinator) • UCM career service will hold letters for 1 year @ 35$ a year.

  9. PharmCAS Centralized application program that holds all transcript, application, and admission info to Pharmacy schools. • Stores history of academic career, LOR, and personal info. • Allows for initial application to desired Pharmacy schools. • Need to keep updated with secondaries.

  10. California Pharmacy Schools • Loma Linda • UC San Diego • UC San Francisco • UOP • UC Southern California • Western University • Touro University

  11. Other Pharmacy Schools • 83 non-california Pharmacy schools in U.S. • Similar requirements but need PCAT scores.

  12. The dreaded PCAT • NOT needed for California based Pharmacy schools, only non-California Pharmacy schools • Similar to GRE, four hour test consists of six sections (Biology, Chemistry, Quantitative Ability, Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Writing) • Preparation books are highly recommended

  13. Summary • PLAN AHEAD! • Excel in pre-requisite classes, put in many extracurricular hours, keep updated with deadlines. • Know requirements for each Pharmacy school.

  14. Questions? • Helpful Links: • http://www.uspharmd.com/school/California/ • www.pharmcas.com • http://harcourtassessment.com/haiweb/Cultures/en-US/Harcourt/Community/PostSecondary/Products/pcat/subpages/introduction.htm

  15. Legal citations • 1. http://www.canadian-online-internet-pharmacys.com/images/pharmacy_store_front.jpg • 2. http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/02/79/22187902.jpg • 3. http://www.swinertongreen.com/Project%20Profiles/Project%20Sheets/UC%20Merced%20Library%201.gif • 4. http://www.thewritersworkshop.net/writing-2.jpg • 5. http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/20/68/22666820.jpg • 6. http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Images/plaque.jpg • 7. https://portal.pharmcas.org/images/logoapplicants.gif • 8. http://www.testbooksonline.com/Professional%20II/pcat.h1.jpg • 9. http://www.gopunditgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/ucsd%20049.jpg • 10. http://www.ttuhsc.edu/sop/images/about.jpg

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