Sorry man, It's nice that you want the 'experience' and all, but I would rather have a life (house, car, vacations, family) than get more experience. I'm assuming you don't have a gf or anything because if you did, I would suspect she wouldn't want to wait around another year for you to do more schooling. My gf has been with me for a while (will be 4 yrs when we get married) and is going crazy because I never see her, and I've still got a couple years ahead of me.
No offense, it's just my opinion. If I wanted to do residency, I would have become a doctor. Oh, and if you're even thinking about retail, then why even bother with residency. You're educational expierences will be completely dumbed down to answering basic pharmacological questions, as well as OTC stuff. I feel that about about the pharmD degree as well. It's nothing special, you don't need a pharmD to do the job, even with the "rapidly growing industry" and anything you DO learn will be practically wasted in retail. Again, just my .02. I've worked in a pharmacy for years and this is just what I've seen. All of our BS pharmacists do the job fine.
In the end, the majority of the job is just blocking out a lot of the **** that doctors don't want to/have to put up with (i.e formulary stuff/OTC q's, ins./co-pay problems, etc). Now, i'm not knocking the job, because I love it, I'm just saying you don't need a "doctorate in pharmacy" to do it.
As I have little/no experience with clinical, I can only assume it's a little more useful to retain certain bits of info.
Maybe I'm just bitter...Here's a story that really pissed me off. Happened last night: Girl calls in and stops a doctor in surgery to call in an "emergency script" (for pain). Doctor, god knows why, calls in some ultracet. Again, girl calls us back and has us call the dr to change it to vicodin(prolly not enough of a high). Doc agrees (very irritated obviously at her). Two times for some damn vicodin, I'm sorry, but the nerve of some ppl. BTW, she's a druggie.
