The PH Magazine
CAREER ADVICE THE PHARMA-FUTURE
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n first year of pharmacy school, most of pharmacy students get confused with the future of their profession. Most of them feel out of place and this is due to prior lack of knowledge of what pharmacy is. It’s only a few who get into the course programme due to their inner passion of pharmacy but to most, pharmacy school is just a second option after medicine or a way in for them to a family business or it was just by the fact that fate landed them in that course either by choice or by lacking any other option. Why the confusion? Mostly because of
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the wrong theories they have been told since they where young that a pharmacist only sells Panadol in a chemist, that it’s the most difficult course to do, that majority drop out only a few make it to graduation. Well these are totally misconceptions about a pharmacy doctor. Am glad that in the past years of my pharmacy studies first year students get oriented about pharmacy at large by the senior students and pharmacy professionals to avoid the fore-mentioned wrong ideas about being a pharmacy doctor. Pharmacy doctors are the front liners in ensuring
