Sunday, September 27, 2009

The overachieving, meeting attending, point missing pharmacy student.

Let me introduce you to an annoyance of mine: the do-all pharmacy student that joins 4 million clubs and a fraternity (biggest waste of money), but never goes to conferences, never gets the point. They have 2 meetings on Monday, 3 on Tuesday and Wednesday, one on Thursday, and none on Friday. But at these meetings, they are on their cells the whole time, texting and whining that they have a fraternity event to worry about and that they don't know what they're going to wear.

It's a continuation of high school, a continuation of college, and now, they just don't get the point. A PharmD is pretty much the end all degree of pharmacy; grades-mongering is pointless unless you're planning on applying to a residency without ever using networking. Going that route, they'll have to tell their patients "I'm a perfect A student so I am going to manage your pharmacotherapy and health care delivery in an A like manner, and I'm going to be successful". Is this the wrong approach to health care? Actually, come to think of it, is the health care problem in America also related to the demographic of students being admitted into programs and eventually spat out?

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