Bachelor of Pharmacy in Monash?

[Zebra]

Pharmacy a good choice??

[slothpomba]

Well, that all depends, do you actually want to do pharmacy and will like the content or are you just doing it because of parents/ seems like a good job?

That would probably be helpful to think about.

Also last i heard it was a bit hard to find decent jobs for pharmacists, don't listen to me though, read the link at the bottom and make up your own mind about the matter.

http://vce.atarnotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,38085.0.html

[Zebra]

Well my cousin goes to monash doing pharmacy course and he told me this:

The initial role of a pharmacist was to explain the medications to patients and interact with them like a doctor however, this is hardly the case nowadays. It's simply handing over the medicine to the patients and briskly telling them what it is. He told me that simply graduating pharmacy will be no good so he's planning to continue his study and work for medicine companies.

One of the reasons why I'm thinking to go to pharmacy is because of the school fees.
I'm an international student which means going to a course I think will be interesting such as
med will be far too expensive. It's beyond what my parent can afford and pharmacy is already expensive.

So, my plan was to get into pharmacy first with scholarship (monash gives $6000/year) and once
I graduate and get residency, I go on from there.
enough.

[slothpomba]

Oh, international hey? Fair enough.

By residency you mean pharmacy residency?

You could probably also work for a medicine/pharmaceutical company with a science or biomedicine degree, majoring in pharmacology, which is what im planning to do (possibly anyway). I think it'd also be cheaper than a pharmacy degree as well.

You could also pick up a science/biomed degree and do subjects for graduate medicine while you work on getting your residency (and hopefully cheaper places for) graduate medicine.

[Zebra]

well do get a permanent residency I need to go for certain jobs like pharmacists.
Once I get it, I wanna go into dentistry or medicine

[mystikal]

okk here is my 2 cents of pharmacy i did pharmacy and transferred out of it haha

anyways if u raelly like the occupation go for it its ok personally i reckn hospital/industrial is the way to go but if u like retail thats alrite too.

u shud try getting  a job at a retail pharmacy job first as a shop person or sumthing to see if u really like it, after working for around a year a pharmacy i got sick of it and realised that it would be my future job for the next 50 years so i decided to transfer out. Grades dont raelly matter in pharmacy its more just passing if you want a job in retail, in hospital you need 70 min average, experience and personality and industrial is connections and grades.

If you are going for the money then dont there are better degrees which lead to money and easier to get as well. Pharmacy is probably one of the harder science degrees if you compare to biomedicine its especially hard at monash where you jump right into physiology, organic chem with only a week to get hold of the basics.  Other universities such as La trobe and RMIT and even UNE (distance ed) they work from scratch assuming that you have no background knowledge which is easier than monash. Pharmacy is pretty good foundation if you want to get into medicine and have a job whilst studying but you cannot get into Uni of Melbourne postgrad med.

[WINVCE]

what can you do after you finish pharmacy? sit gamsat? what options are there???

[Toothpaste]

what can you do after you finish pharmacy? sit gamsat? what options are there???

...

- Be a pharmacist. Community, hospital, industrial ... etc.
- Pharmacist, get higher degrees and more experience for better pay.
- Sit the GAMSAT (any course really...) and try to do another health course.
- Lose interest, go into a completely different course. For example, law.
- Research. You'll need good marks and more study.
- Pharmacist, try and own your own pharmacy. You'll need money first.
etc.

[mystikal]

what can you do after you finish pharmacy? sit gamsat? what options are there???

...

- Be a pharmacist. Community, hospital, industrial ... etc.
- Pharmacist, get higher degrees and more experience for better pay.
- Sit the GAMSAT (any course really...) and try to do another health course.
- Lose interest, go into a completely different course. For example, law.
- Research. You'll need good marks and more study.
- Pharmacist, try and own your own pharmacy. You'll need money first.
etc.

-Pharmacy and Law is pretty interesting since there are like heaps of cases relating to both fields
-...Dont try to own your own pharmacy at this point in time unless you are inheriting the the chemist warehouse franchise. I heard from all my pharmacists and they all unanimously agreed that the market for owning your own pharmacy is basically asking to go bankrupt. All the good places are saturated and it simply costs too much to own one now, plus you have compete with giants like chemist warehouse who can lower the prices to even my own staff discount can not beat... ITS RIDICULOUS T_T
-Rural is ok i guess... u can own one there and ask sum1 to work there for you... but like the situation in rural is slowly becoming worse in terms of profitability.
-Some of my friends are planning to like work part time as a pharmacist and pursue other things like setting up their own business for a totally different field (small shops etc...)
- The best thing at the moment for the pharmacy field that can come of this oversupply of graduates would be teaching. More students means more teachers needed. Therefore scoring a job as a tutor is pretty good.

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