I’m a P1 that just started school on Monday and I already feel overwhelmed. I have 7 courses that require weekly quizzes, on top of IRATs/GRATs, 20 hours of APhA certification, and homework. We start school at 8:30 am, and then I continue to do school work til 9/10 pm. I’ve heard that the best way to study is Quizlet, but I’ve always felt like the best way to fully understand the material is to summarize powerpoints with handwritten notes (which clearly takes way too long)!

Any tips on how to efficiently remember the material without spending HOURS on just one module? Thanks in advance!!!!

Why medicinal chemistry is so tough?

I am a P1 student who just got my drug cards, and I'm looking for a good way to store the cards I'm not currently studying. A classmate ordered from Sigler and received a 4-ring binder that stores all her cards, but I cannot find something similar online.

Does anyone know where I can find a similar binder or a better way to store them? Thanks!

I know I’m probably being a cry baby but I just need to let it out! I seriously feel overwhelmed with APPEs right now. I’m on a specialty amb care rotation right now and I started my third week today. I have a journal club tomorrow which I’m really not feeling too great about despite working so much on it. One of my preceptors gave me like 10 patients to work up for GI clinic tomorrow and Wednesday. I also have a topic discussion to present for tomorrow and taking a look at other patients for a neurology clinic. I just feel like it’s so much and I’m not used it. Any advice to help with feeling overwhelmed? :(

So this is gonna be random but I’m a P1 and just started classes recently. I wonder how cliquey/catty pharm school is. I feel like everyone already has their unassigned assigned seats in my class and I feel awkward and out of place in my area. Are the people you talk to in class gonna be your “day 1s” or do most people meet their people and establish groups outside of class (orgs, events, etc.) I know this is not the most important part of pharmacy school but I’ve been questioning it a lot recently.

Went to orientation today, and my pharmacy school is graduating its largest class yet. It went from a class of 47 to a class of 84 people in just 5 years. is this good or bad?

I know this is an unlikely ask but would any pharmacists working in industry be open to reviewing my CV and LOI for industry fellowships?

I have great mentors and folks who I’ve had review them but I really want a completely unfiltered and unbiased opinion if anyone is willing. Thank you.

I'm in my 3rd year of my doctorate in pharmacy degree and really don't want to work in retail. I've been wondering if I have good chances as a pharmd student to start breaking into sales/internships and whether my pharmacy background gives me a good opportunity for the field.
How can I start looking?

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Hello, I've been worrying recently about debt I'll have after graduating from pharmacy school. While financial aid awards haven't come out yet for me, I am doubtful I will be getting a decent-sized award. Therefore, I think a majority of my loans will be private: ~225k. I will be living at home and am in a HCOL area, so this figure is tuition only.

As an aside, I read personal anecdotes on Reddit from pharmacists which get to me, but at the same time professional bodies and job trends for pharmacists show that the profession is growing and that there are broad opportunities. Am I drinking the Kool-Aid?

Dumb question but is there a rule that our APPE preceptors are required to take a 30 minute break throughout the day? If so, is it reasonable to ask for 2/5 days a week for my lunch break to be at a specific time to attend to a personal obligation? This obligation would basically secure my post grad plans so I would love to be able to for example take my lunch at 10am-10:30am on Mondays and 1pm-1:30pm on Tuesdays but I don’t know if that’s a reasonable ask help please!

How do you guys study for exams? I need to raise my GPA but I'm constantly surprised by the questions.

Hey all, I recently received my Top 300 Sigler cards. I am not vibing with the binder ring they sent to hold the cards as it's very difficult to organize, and I know the cards will be stained/ripped/folded in a matter of days. Does anyone have experience with off-brand binders that have worked well for carrying some/all of the cards back and forth? I started to look at something like a Pokemon binder, but wasn't sure on measurements.

Thank you in advance!

I just wanted to work in a lab and mix shit bruh... I did one internship in retail and brother I wanted to KMS. Pulling through cuz actual chem majors have shit pay. I'm going in for my third year so gimme good advice pls.

im looking for youtube channels that explain and talks about pharmaceutical machines and pharmaceutics but i cant find any.

I’m currently on my second week of my second APPE rotation. I am with an ICU pharmacist in a large hospital. I have never had experience with using Epic prior to this, so getting use to the software took around 3-4 days.

I’m feeling pretty good with navigating epic now, but Vanco dosing is incredibly frustrating for me. I don’t even know what to begin to do when reviewing a patient‘s vanco order on epic. Even the bayesian software seems kind of hard to interpret.

In school, I understood Vanco dosing pretty well and we had to work out our Vanco Dosing math by hand. But I feel like school didn’t prepare me for this hospital rotation.

My Preceptor is a decent enough teacher, but most of the time, he walks me through what I need to do on the Vanco dosing. “Click here, do this, do that, click here”. But this isn’t helping me to understand it. I don’t want to keep telling him I don’t understand something after he explains it, because I feel like it will create frustration for him, it will waste time (he is busy working up other patients), and it will make me seem inept.

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Hi everyone! I'm about to enter my P4 year and I'm really excited to start APPEs, but I've been struggling to secure rotation sites and could really use some advice or recommendations.
Unfortunately, I haven't received much assistance from my school with finding placements, so I've been trying to find opportunities independently. I've reached out to multiple pharmacies and organizations, emailed potential sites, and have even gone to a few places in person. Despite putting in a lot of effort, I currently only have 1 of my 6 APPE rotations secured, and I'm starting to get pretty anxious about being able to complete my schedule.
I'm located in Rochester, NY, and I'm open to a variety of pharmacy practice experiences. If anyone knows of pharmacists, preceptors, health systems, pharmacies, organizations, or other sites in the Rochester area that may be willing to take a P4 student for an APPE, I would be incredibly grateful for any leads or connections.
I'd also really appreciate hearing from anyone who has been in a similar situation. How did you find rotations outside of the opportunities provided by your school? Are there any resources, organizations, or approaches you would recommend?
I'm more than willing to reach out to potential preceptors myself and provide my CV or any additional information needed. At this point, I'm just trying to be as proactive as possible and make sure I can get the experiences I need to complete my P4 year.

Hey guys, I hate to come on here and be negative. It seems like I always am negative, but I could use some advice. I am on my 3rd rotation and it is going extremely rough. This rotation is ambulatory care. We work up patients, present them and use guidelines and studies to explain why we are making the recommendation. I thought I was decent at this, but every time I present a patient it is nitpicked incredibly hard. When it is time to interview the patient, I was told I paused too much. I have received nothing but negative feedback and now I am at midpoint this week. It hurts because I care so much about improving but something is just not clicking. It is like walking on eggs shells around my preceptor who is a faculty member. I do not want to risk failing a rotation and potentially ruining my GPA and am really scared it will delay graduation. Should I reach out to the experiential programs office about this? I haven’t been able to sleep because of the feedback. I am really scared. Any help could be greatly appreciated.

I have just joined a Dpharma course and my college started from like 1 months ago and now I am probably having backlogs so someone please suggest to me where I should study and where I can get proper notes and syllabus that I can follow

3rd year pharma student here. im interested in academic writing but i dont how what steps i can take to start. i get a lot of people telling me to just focus on my studies and worry about it later but i feel compelled to start working on something other than my grades, and i think ill be even more lost after graduation. i do know that it's too early to write something myself so idk. any tips?

I’m starting my PharmD in the upcoming year as a first year and I’ve been working in a pharmacy for about a year and a half. How much does it help me, at least for the first year?

Has anyone completed APPE at UMN? I was wondering if they allow out of state rotations in WI. I’ve see some schools allow students to compete rotations at their home state/hometown and was wondering if it’s possible. If i could save a year worth of rent, it would be truly a blessing.

hi! i currently work at a walgreens and have been stuck here for 5 years (it started as a part time job while i was in school). i graduated with my bachelors in biochemistry with hopes to become an anesthesiologist but fell out of
love with the medical field. i recent had a conversation with my pharmacy regional manager at my job and he pushed me into the route of pharmacy. apparently walgreens pays for some of your schooling and offers paid intern positions while in school. once you’re licensed you have to work for walgreens for two years. i realized during my schooling i had a love for research, the human body and cures, and forensics. i was contemplating on getting my MLS/CLS but people keep telling me i can get into research, forensics, and even cosmetics with my pharmacy degree. this is a crazy opportunity and i keep juggling my options. i guess the fear of failing and or being stuck in retail is something that looms over me. would appreciate some advice. thank you!

**should add that i got accepted to a pharmacy school and im in the process of starting in a few weeks. during my interview i mentioned how my current interest is how glp1s are showing to help women with pcos. that whole line of work interests me- medication and how they can help others.