- Joined
- Jan 8, 2007
- Messages
- 4,342
- Reaction score
- 73
I understand what you're trying to say about prospective students and their lack of a desire to learn beyond what is taught in pharmacy school. The problem that I have with your idea, though, is that if a student is finished with his/her education, then they should be able to chose what it is that they will do to advance their knowledge and the profession overall. Requiring mandatory residencies is an encroachment on professional practicing freedoms.if people see they have to do a residency after graduation, it will deter people from getting into it from the get go...talk to some preceptors who have taken in students from these new pharmacy schools, they are appalled at their lack of knowledge
Seriously... this is not medical school. The perks of being a med. resident are well-established, e.g. established programs exist to defer loans while a med. student is in residency, unlike pharm. residents who have to declare an economic hardship status during residency, and the trade-off for those perks is a few years of working as med. resident to gain experience and practicing rights.