You
know how they say that we only use 10% of our brain? Philippine Pharmacy
education is pretty much the same way: You only get to use 10% of what you
studied in Pharmacy school. Why? Because that's all you'll get to remember :D
(I'm only referring to the average students, of course. Forget the smart asses
that constitue only 5% of the whole pharmacist population!)
And
another sad thing about it is that they didn't teach us the more practical stuff. Here are some classes that I wished we had before they threw us into the
real practice:
Lie
Detection 101
Minimum
wage at 6 days a week 9 hours a day (1 hr break included) with no OT pay
contentment class
The
art of multitasking
The
art of dodging (or maybe this is more applicable to a PE class?)
Basics
of Mindreading
The
types of customers and how to deal with them (example: the angry lolo, the
budul budol lola, the know-it-all, the madam dona, etc.)
Dealing
with crime (scams, modus operandi, addicts)
Profit
vs. Ethics vs. Regulation
and
much much more!
So
where did all those four years of learning go?
If
85% of students who graduated pharmacy, passed the boards and entered work
share the same experience as mine (on your first day of work, you feel as if
you've learned almost nothing from college), I can assume that the cause for
this problem is our extremely flawed curriculum. Some adjustments clearly have
to be made for it to do its purpose.
And
I thought pharmacognosy was important! o_O
Reality
bites.
