New pharmacy school eyed for Mississippi
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/new-pharmacy-school-eyed-mississippi?page=0,0
From the article:
William Carey University (WCU) in Mississippi is trying to raise $4 million for upfront costs for a new pharmacy school.
University officials told the Sun Herald that a new pharmacy school in the region is needed to meet the demand for pharmacists and for area students looking to study pharmacy.
Do new pharmacists face a joblessness crisis?
http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/do-new-pharmacists-face-joblessness-crisis
From the article: dated Oct 2013
An overestimation of future pharmacist jobs plus too many pharmacy schools will lead to a joblessness crisis for new pharmacy students, predicts a recent report in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.
The report recommends tough medicine for pharmacy schools and the pharmacy industry. “Growth of the academy needs to cease forthwith. Institutions considering establishment of a new PharmD program should be discouraged from doing so by all sectors of the profession. Existing programs contemplating expansion should seriously consider putting their plans on hold,” the report said.
There are reports that we are graduating 3000-4000/yr more Pharmacist than are needed.. and the above report plainly states that pharmacy school growth needs to CEASE FORTHWITH !
Filed under: General Problems
The pharmacist shortage is NEWS to me and I live in Mississippi! That is all we need is an over-saturation of pharmacists in the state and the chains will be firing pharmacists left and right because they don’t meet some stupid metric. All these kids wanting to be pharmacists just see MONEY. They don’t see the stress and the ridiculous work environment. If they think they will be ‘professionals’ and use their own judgement, they will quickly learn that all the ‘bull’ the pharmacy schools teach is an illusion in the real world of chain pharmacy. We are treated like every other corporate slave and can be fired at a moments notice. Also, Mississippi has no laws to protect workers….NONE!