₦airaland Forum

Bludeville: I thought i was going to see interesting/ stimulating conversation here....I'm actually a little bit embarrassed by this thread.....
Maybe there is a need to separate aspirants from pharmacists...or maybe I'm expecting too much?

Pa-Ken:
It is time to come into this conversation. I represent the great University of Benin - Pharmacy. I must confess that if I have a second opportunity to go back to school, I'll always embrace Pharmacy. Pharmacy as a discipline gives you a whole lot of opportunities unlike some fields of academic endeavors. In the last 8 years, I have worked as an industrial pharmacist and am currently into pharmaceutical regulation. For any pharmacist or pharmacy student that is interested in building a career in regulation, feel free to hit on me anytime for guidance. In my short year of practice, I have come to discover that many pharmacy graduates have career accidents ie they have no clue what they want to make of their pharmacy degree ie BPharm or Pharm.D as they case may be ? In school, I was very good with Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmacy Law, so I opted for Industrial Pharmacy although without much pay and now I'm fully a Pharmaceutical Regulator.
I rqecently met a colleague with Pharm.D and he told me he is a Medical Representative for a generic pharmaceutical company? I asked again why spend 6 years to bag a Pharm.D and end up in a corporate hawking drugs business? A Pharm.D holder should be involved in stuffs like Clinical trials, Pharmaceutical Care, Drug Therapy Problems, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacogenomics etc....

Capableben: I am puzzled- dont know wether to go for pharmacy or chemical engineering..........
pls my loving pple advice me.

give me job prospects too

Tommybob: my boss... Pls I'd like to have you on my 2go list..... Just admitted into the University of Ibadan to study pharm..... I ll like to know how the lecturers cope with the students and other things, tho on 2go..... Can i have your username?

baebyfaze91: Boss i'l lyk 2 tlk wit u more...pls drop ur 2go id nd fb......i'm also a newly admittd pharmacy stud in2 U.I

Tommybob: my boss... Pls I'd like to have you on my 2go list..... Just admitted into the University of Ibadan to study pharm..... I ll like to know how the lecturers cope with the students and other things, tho on 2go..... Can i have your username?

drered: You'd hardly see a pharmacy grad that is unemployed or can't find an Internship placement. The beauty in pharmacy is its diversity. Pharmacist fit into so many works of life both unrelated and related to the profession ; Hospital/Retail/Academic/Manufacture/Quality assurance etc. Pharmacies are being opened everyday so they are always jobs and they also pay big cash to use your cert to register the place. Apart from diversity there's flexibilty. You can work in 2,3 places (locum) and make a very descent pay. Immediately after graduation, you can earn anything between 100large to 200large per month during your internship. I would suppose they are much more engineers relative to pharmacist out there and you know the less available a particular skill set is the greater their remuneration.

Pharmacy is also pretty tough. For the fact that you can diversify you should also be able to infer that the course itself is quiet broad ; From drug chemistry to their synthesis and how they can also be obtained, identified and extracted from natural sources to pharmaceutical microbiology, to drug dosage forms, analysis, assay and formulation to anatomy, physiology, clinicals( extensive study of virtually all disease states and their therapy). You gotta be able to sacrifice loads of your time and be persistent. A typical day in my school is 8-1 lectures, 2-5/6 practicals and same follows the next day. Remember u gotta report practicals and also study and be ready for extra classes. Exams are usually at a stretch, monday-saturday then you continue the next monday, no breaks in-between. No carry overs, you are allowed a couple of resits (3-4 depending on course unit and level) but if you fail just a course twice or more than the limit you'll repeat the whole year. There's even this silly thing where if you can't write an exam because you are sick and then you fail another course, you'll have to repeat the whole year. So its pretty much hardcore but its worth it. Was speaking to a senior colleague(a pharmacist now) that we used to read/complain about pharmacy school together and he said he would study pharmacy 10times over..
I suppose chemical engineering is okay too but pharmacy is what I can tell you about. Choose wisely mate cuz what you study can make or mar you. Good luck.

wasak: mods take this to the front-page.. we not gonna let them ruins our future!!!

Written by:
Moyo Okediji
As Minister of Education in Nigeria, I would take the
following ten DECISIVE actions immediately:
1. Dismiss all the lecturers. Of course they are free
to seek re-dress through the courts. The universities
have attorneys to answer lawsuits.
2. Give lecturers an opportunity to re-apply within
seven days.
3. Those who do not re-apply should leave
university housing, and vacate their offices. Invite
the police to maintain order and enforce the
vacation of university properties. Those arrested for
illegal actions will be legally arrested and duly
prosecuted.
4. Re-appoint lecturers as Assistant Professors
(Lecturers I and II), Associate Professors (Senior
Lecturers and Readers), and Full Professors (current
Professors).
5. Re-appointment is not automatic. Only lecturers
who have been productive in the last three years
would be re-appointed. Productivity to be be
determined in terms of publications, exhibitions,
inventions, and research findings.
6. Negotiate salaries individually with the
professors, based on demonstrated productivity.
Every professor receives a salary package that is
unique to his/her qualifications, experience and
productivity. This is the way remunerations are
apportioned in the United States, which is mostly
why many professors work hard.
7. Request evaluations of professors by students
every semesters. This is done every semester in the
US, and ensures that many professors take teaching
serious).
8. Recruit international university accreditors and
consultants to equip libraries, classrooms, and
laboratories.
9. Recruit international accreditors and consultants
to appoint Vice-Chancellor, Librarians, and
Registrars, and Accountants.
10. Retain international accreditors and consultants
to annually evaluate the state of each university,
and recommend continued accreditation.
The university system would improve drastically,
and universities would become a true place of
learning, research, and excellence.

Written by:
Moyo Okediji
As Minister of Education in Nigeria, I would take the
following ten DECISIVE actions immediately:
1. Dismiss all the lecturers. Of course they are free
to seek re-dress through the courts. The universities
have attorneys to answer lawsuits.
2. Give lecturers an opportunity to re-apply within
seven days.
3. Those who do not re-apply should leave
university housing, and vacate their offices. Invite
the police to maintain order and enforce the
vacation of university properties. Those arrested for
illegal actions will be legally arrested and duly
prosecuted.
4. Re-appoint lecturers as Assistant Professors
(Lecturers I and II), Associate Professors (Senior
Lecturers and Readers), and Full Professors (current
Professors).
5. Re-appointment is not automatic. Only lecturers
who have been productive in the last three years
would be re-appointed. Productivity to be be
determined in terms of publications, exhibitions,
inventions, and research findings.
6. Negotiate salaries individually with the
professors, based on demonstrated productivity.
Every professor receives a salary package that is
unique to his/her qualifications, experience and
productivity. This is the way remunerations are
apportioned in the United States, which is mostly
why many professors work hard.
7. Request evaluations of professors by students
every semesters. This is done every semester in the
US, and ensures that many professors take teaching
serious).
8. Recruit international university accreditors and
consultants to equip libraries, classrooms, and
laboratories.
9. Recruit international accreditors and consultants
to appoint Vice-Chancellor, Librarians, and
Registrars, and Accountants.
10. Retain international accreditors and consultants
to annually evaluate the state of each university,
and recommend continued accreditation.
The university system would improve drastically,
and universities would become a true place of
learning, research, and excellence.

Dr.'Hesjay:
Nice advice bro
but i dnt advice staying at home....No..i dnt..
Y didnt u stay@home na?

Tommybob: chai! My aunt called a prof in ui b4 d release of d cut off nd he was lyk av got no chance in pharm dat i shud jst focuse on my fallback buh i trust in God... Doze pple dnt reli knw watz going on or mayb dey dnt want to tell...... Imagine a prof sayin a lot of pple got 80upward in mbbs lyk 100 sha... Nd dat dey ll only take 90.... Buh i dnt bliv any prof dia again even d vc himslf cnt b trusted wif infos.

Capableben: wow, what an invaluable contribution. thank u sir
pls which uni do u skul?

shakur07: baba am also for pharmacy ..i will pm yhu nao to get sum facts from yhu sire

Damitism: Yahooooozeee! I don 'CUT OFF' ooo! With d pharmacy putme marks(72), i even qualify for MBBS. Baba God nani! #teampharma.