We had a great trip last week up to the University of Utah campus where we got to hear from many different current pharmacy students and get some great tips! Here are my notes from the meeting:
- P1 Students
- How to prepare for application
- Take the right classes and get the good grades!
- PCAT or Bachelor's Degree
- Leadership Experience
- Can be varied
- Volunteer/Community Service
- Looking for who you've become and not just what you've done
- Bring up these experiences during your interviews
- Instructors care and want you to do well
- Interviews -- don't worry about getting the right answer, just relax and be yourself. Don't act prideful or like you think you are going to get it. Don't act like you already know about pharmacy
- There is a website that gives samples questions that were used previously at the U
- Interviews
- Very important
- Be careful of the stories you tell
- Be careful about talking about cultural differences
- Don't talk forever -- they will let you talk until you are done
- Be aware of current events in pharmacy
- Their focus is to evaluate your critical thinking skills
- It's fine to ask to repeat the question
- Pause before you start answering, take a breath to think about your answer
- Munger -- loves PharmD/PhD
- difficult to find research opportunities, need to take initiative
- Personal Statement
- 1st Year
- Busy, need to be organized, often do internship hours and need to know your schedule front to back
- P2
- TTh -- busy days, three two hour classes, no class on Fridays unless test and other days are a lot light
- coursework is same load, project, presentations,
- Spring P2 hardest semester
- P3
- TTh -- testing day no classes
- MW -- class all day (8-3)
- friday 2 hour class
- Still can work about 20 hours a week
- Lots of exams but not in class a lot
- P4
- Summers all years are on rotation anyway
- For license, you need to have 600 paid/volunteer hours
- Rotation 8 hrs a day/5 days a week, work after that
- physically exhausting because you need to be on your game all the time
- Once you get accepted, try to get an internship as soon as you can
- Every year is going to graduate and leave positions
- Can get intern license in May
- Admissions/Classes Questions
- denise.brenes@pharm.utah.edu
- madison.hatch@pharm.utah.edu
- jon.magness@pharm.utah.edu
- halee.namanny@pharm.utah.edu
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