What do I need to know about being a pharmacist?

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As a PharmD. I would inform you that you need 2 years of undergrad and 4 years of grad school. Not all pharmacy schools are the same.Midwestern in Chicago only has six, 6 week rotations, one of which is a retail (walgreens) rotation.Texas Tech has 12, six week rotations one of which is retail, one of which is rural. The other ten are clinical rotations (PICU, Heme-Onc, SICU, MICU, Inpatient, Amb, Long Term Care, ect)Pharmacy schools like Texas Tech normaly need a bachelorette in chem/bio/bio chem or other like field and a PCAT test in the top 1/4 to obtain enterance. Midwestern has its own standards.As for working at Walgreens/Osco/CVS.. thats only a small part of the proffesion. Try calling up your local cancer center or Level 1 trauma center and following their BSOP (board certified oncology pharmacist) or BSPS (board certified pharmacotherapy pharmacist) if you think the only thing pharmacist do is count pills and take your prescription drug cards. :)

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A lot.believe it or not.you have to go to college for that.

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how to sway people so they believe that they actually need chemicals to improve their health;(

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Try getting a job as a clerk in a local pharmacy and you'll see what they really do. I used to want to go to pharmacy school until I worked in an actual pharmacy, it kinda sucks.

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You need to first realize how much schooling is involved! It's like going to medical schoool. Also, someone else pointed this out, working in a pharmacy is so boring. Imaging being at walgreens ALL DAY! Also realize that you need to be extremely careful when dispensing medicine. Just because the doc wrote the perscription, you can still be sued for dispensing it if they have an allergic reaction, or they recieve too high of a dose..Overall though, they make GREAT money for the little work that is acutally involved. But the schooling is the hardest.

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Study the pre-med curriculum. Being a pharmacist is the closest thing to being an M.D. there is. Study math, biology, chemistry, etc., and study well. Good luck!

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You need to be able to understand all of the interactions of modern medicine in the human body, in many of the same ways that a doctor does to confirm that their prescription is correct. In addition you need to be able to count thousands and thousands of pills.

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You need a expensive education. you could(if you got far enough)learn how to create supplements and brainwash people with creative advertising to convice them that they need chemicals to improve themselfs. But creating supplements is an entirley diifferent game,quite complex!
A lot of the chemical in supplements you really can't trust,well the muscleltech brand anyways.(Just my opinion,no threat intended to muscletech or Invote Pharmasuiticles.

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a lot about drugs

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3 Valium, 2 Oxycontin, 1 Xanax and 150,000 Dollars

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You look at a prescription, check the computer to see if anything the person is taking is contraindicated, check the bottle for correctness, ask the patient if they have any questions.Oh, wait. That's the Pharmacy Tech. You won't do anything.

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