Pharmacy School in my eyes

So, I was accepted to ULM School of Pharmacy to start in the Fall of 2015 (if you want to know more about the interview, let me know and I'll make a post about that).  At that time, I knew that I really wanted to be a hospital pharmacist (as a government contract pharmacist).  So, I did as probably anyone would do, I went to go look for a intern job that would help me get exposed to what entailed in hospital pharmacy.

I was able to find a job at St. Francis hospital in Monroe, LA.  I was thoroughly ecstatic about what it meant to be a hospital pharmacist.  So, for the first two weeks that I was working, I was mostly checking and seeing how the technicians were doing their jobs outside of the IV room and hardly saw what was going on in the IV room.  So, I ended up on my first shift alone in the IV room.  I can admit, I made mistakes, but I also felt super unprepared and there was no real way to learn how to handle all the situation at once.  After a month of working there, I was "let go,"  and this really a let down and I honestly felt like a failure.  At this time, I wasn't doing all too well in school and I was having personal issues that I was dealing with too.  

So, in my pharmacy school, they bring a huge emphasis on hospital, retail, or residency.  I have yet to see something really outside of it.  So, I was talking with my research professor and he mentioned trying out a fellowship.  I looked into the only natural  products fellowship that exist in the nation and it was a drug information fellowship.  Now, I'll tell you, I do not like drug information and I cannot see myself doing that the rest of my life.  Now that a fellowship was out of the question, I went to inquire at places like NIH and see who they hired.  The constant answer that I received was "you have to have a PhD."  That's where I'm at now in my pharmacy career, waiting to get done with my PharmD to start on my PhD.

Now, for actual pharmacy school related things.

Year 1: It's only hard cause there's a lot of basic information to get out of the way that the professor doesn't know what level of difficulty to teach cause there are students from everywhere.  This is where I learned that there are still classes that I will be taking in pharmacy school that will be irrelevant to me.

Year 2: Started on the modules (classes based on body systems).  Honestly, I see the brilliant efficacy to come from this, however, my pharmacy school doesn't  have that all together yet.  We have therapeutics lectures where it already talks about stuff that was mentioned in pharmacology and medicinal chemistry.  

Year 3:  still on those body systems.  Fall semester was great, but the spring.  If you hear anyone talk about the spring semester at this pharmacy school.  It is true.  So, in the semester I'm in right now, they decided to have 7 modules jammed up into one semester..... no bueno.

So, if you have any questions, let me know!