Pharmacy or Physio?

[naved_s9994]

Pharmacy or Physio?
             ..and why? In terms of job prospects, wages etc

The possiblility of supermarkets being able to have mini-pharmacies, would dampen
small pharmacy owners' wages...but by how much?

[mark_alec]

Depends how much you like people.

If you like touching people then be a physio. If you prefer serving people, be a pharmacist.

[ItsSKC]

Depends how much you like people.

If you like touching people then be a physio. If you prefer serving people, be a pharmacist.

haha that is a very very simplistic way of putting it. I would say if you are interested in the mechanics of the human body and the integrated study of how the body works, then physio might be the better option. If you like studying the interactions of chemicals on a very detailed level(pharmokinetic, ligand interactions and etc) then pharmacy may interests you. Both careers have good earning potentials. For pharmacy, you may look into getting a job at a big pharmaceutical firm. If it makes any difference, physio is ranked among the top 10 most satisfying job(whatever that means) by some sources.

[naved_s9994]

Depends how much you like people.

If you like touching people then be a physio. If you prefer serving people, be a pharmacist.

haha that is a very very simplistic way of putting it. I would say if you are interested in the mechanics of the human body and the integrated study of how the body works, then physio might be the better option. If you like studying the interactions of chemicals on a very detailed level(pharmokinetic, ligand interactions and etc) then pharmacy may interests you. Both careers have good earning potentials. For pharmacy, you may look into getting a job at a big pharmaceutical firm. If it makes any difference, physio is ranked among the top 10 most satisfying job(whatever that means) by some sources.

Yea, I read of that too!!!
LOL, hehehehe..

I researched their Avg Max Wages, which happen to be 132000 for Pharmacy, obviously much higher if
own clinic opened sometime down the track, and Avg Max Salary for Physiotherapy around 120000, so
not much of a difference.

Physio starts at a base salary of 45000, where as Pharmacy 30000.

The MAIN issue is, that I like both, the chemical aspect of things in Pharmacy, and also in Physio the Mechanics of
human body, muscular etc.

And in Pharmacy only pharmacists can open a clinic, but in future if supermarkets are allowed to do so,
if law's change then their salary's are bound to decrease by lots? (Is my thinking wrong?...because if
Supermarkets open small pharmacy's, then their prices will be lower, and so more customers,
so any pharmacist with their own clinic will be affected in terms of customers.. how it will
affect pharmacists who work as employees somewhere at a big pharmaceutical firm I have no clue?!

[ItsSKC]

If it is too hard to distinguish your interest right now you may want to consider doing a degree in Biomedicine. This will allow you a more thorough taste as to what the studies for both degrees will entail.

[TrueLight]

yeah or you could do science... and major in both physiology and pharmacology... they go well together

although you won't become a pharmacist....so eh if you like drugs and how it affects the body etc do pharmacy
and wat do u want to do with physiology? become a physiotherapist? or more research? physio is bascially the how the body functions...

[naved_s9994]

If it is too hard to distinguish your interest right now you may want to consider doing a degree in Biomedicine. This will allow you a more thorough taste as to what the studies for both degrees will entail.

yeah or you could do science... and major in both physiology and pharmacology... they go well together

although you won't become a pharmacist....so eh if you like drugs and how it affects the body etc do pharmacy
and wat do u want to do with physiology? become a physiotherapist? or more research? physio is bascially the how the body functions...

Thanks guys!
Yea, im getting the drift of things now... Ill probably just have to think this out
clearly.

[simonhu81292]

by the way .. physio needs umat where as pharmacy doesn't
so yeah ...

[methodsboy]

by the way .. physio needs umat where as pharmacy doesn't
so yeah ...

iirc pharmacy does require it - well at least for Monash

[Greggler]

Physio is a highly rewarding job. I did work experience at a hospital and worked for a few days in the physio department and on a daily basis teaching stroke patients to walk etc. is quite amazing.

Although its hardly a glamourous lifestyle, its not paid that well (around 35,000 for those a few years out of uni) unless you want to move into private practice in which is hardly as flexible and a lot more demanding compared to the stability of a 8-4 hospital job.

Ofcourse there are chances in the sporting field, yet it is a highly competitive field that usually initially starts as a volunteer/part time job whilst working in a hospital.

Pharmacy i have no idea, i've always personally envisiaged a pharmacist as simply someone having all this knowledge attained during uni, but simply restricted to a dull and dreary deskjob (owning a pharmacy or whatever), and that has never interested me as i have always wanted to enter the medical field due to the fresh challenges it provides every day

[kenhung123]

Where can you do physio other than in La Trobe?

[vexx]

Where can you do physio other than in La Trobe?

at monash in the peninsula and also at charles stuart uni.
i've read through the monash course, and it sounds really good. i actually considered doing it, but nah definitely want to do med & not move away.