Pharmacy/Commerce

[McFleurry]

Hi!
Pretty much the title says it all. Does anyone know anything about this course? Is anyone doing it? What's it like?
Any information would be awesome.
Thanks

[SenriAkane]

You will find your self going between  Parkville Campus and Clayton Campus so you might want to do unit from clayton only one semester and parkville only the next.  Otherwise it takes a fair while to travel between parkville and clayton

[jasoN-]

^ Nah doesn't work like that.
It's simply a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree (done in 4 years at Parkville), then a Commerce degree (done in 2 years at Clayton). You have to do an extra year of internship to become a registered Pharmacist however.

Those doing Bachelor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Pharmacy/Commerce will be in the same cohort throughout the 4 years (i.e. you are not separate in any way - not until you finish the Pharmacy degree at least)

Have a look at the handbook entry for more information

[SenriAkane]

^ Nah doesn't work like that.
It's simply a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree (done in 4 years at Parkville), then a Commerce degree (done in 2 years at Clayton). You have to do an extra year of internship to become a registered Pharmacist however.

Those doing Bachelor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Pharmacy/Commerce will be in the same cohort throughout the 4 years (i.e. you are not separate in any way - not until you finish the Pharmacy degree at least)

Have a look at the handbook entry for more information

I stand corrected.

[Fantasia94]

Do u guys know the atar requirement for Pharmacy at Monash??

[jasoN-]

No specific requirement, and since it doesn't take into account UMAT for 2013 student intake, could be anything, but my guess is a 95 ATAR would get you in quite comfortably.

[sluu001]

The pharmacy landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade. Be careful about doing pharmacy because there is now an over-supply of new pharmacists in the market - so unless you are willing to go out to work in the regional areas or can get some work experience (ie. webster packing, Dispensing at an actual pharmacy), you will be competing in a very saturated job market.

This can be indicates in the atar req for entrance - back when i did my vce the atar needed for a place was closer to 98-99. It has since dropped to around 95-96. (these estimates comes directly from talking to current and past monash pharmacy students).

[Fantasia94]

Well, say if you studied pharmacy then commerce, then through this could you like develop your own pharmacy/business?

[Graphite]

Of course you can, the question is do you have the money to?
Also, there is no real benefit in doing commerce just to hope they you will run a much more profitable business.

[Graphite]

The pharmacy landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade. Be careful about doing pharmacy because there is now an over-supply of new pharmacists in the market - so unless you are willing to go out to work in the regional areas or can get some work experience (ie. webster packing, Dispensing at an actual pharmacy), you will be competing in a very saturated job market.

This can be indicates in the atar req for entrance - back when i did my vce the atar needed for a place was closer to 98-99. It has since dropped to around 95-96. (these estimates comes directly from talking to current and past monash pharmacy students).

Actually there are some that can get in with high 80's. I think the reason they don't report the cut off is more because the cut off is so much lower than one would anticipate.

[Mr Keshy]

Well, say if you studied pharmacy then commerce, then through this could you like develop your own pharmacy/business?

Ohh that sounds interesting!

[sluu001]

If you have a couple of hundred grands lying around you can buy a license. Due to capping of licenses by the pharmacy guild, licenses are ridiculously expensive AND restrictive.

[Mr Keshy]

If you have a couple of hundred grands lying around you can buy a license. Due to capping of licenses by the pharmacy guild, licenses are ridiculously expensive AND restrictive.

I want to do Engineering and Commerce so I won't need that license, I'll be modifying cars instead

[HighLatency]

I want to do Engineering and Commerce so I won't need that license, I'll be modifying cars instead

Don't know if you need to do engineering/commerce to modify cars lol

[Fantasia94]

I hate being a girl lol, finding a suitable uni course is just so difficult. I was going to put aerospace as one of my first preferences, but then my physics teacher( a female) told me that its difficult for females to be easily accepted for an engineering job as she herself studied engineering but then transferred to teaching because none of engineering companies accepted her.