Pharmacy Education : Perspective Of Career Market

April 28th, was a day for us, pharmacy student to remember, it was a great event managed and created by US students, and mostly managed by first PharmD's student to be graduated from our faculty this semester.. Student wrok, Pharmaceutic companies, and over 300 student attended too many speakers and lectures all to help us chose and know what Market needs and a great well spoken word from Minister Dr.Taher Sharkhsher, if you attended it you gained so much, and its too bad you missed it.

Scientific day

Two speakers had my attention mostly, Dr. Amjad Aryan CEO pharmacy one, and Dr.Khalid AwadatADATCO manager.

for Dr. Amjad he spoke about pharmacy one and its success here in Jordan and a view to open a chain in USA, the thing that attached us more as students is the talk out side the lecture room, during the break he started to tell us about our work, career, and how we can as Youth change it, insisting to tell us we are the Future to come. He also liked an idea by one of our PharmD's about their work as PharmD in the major pharmacy and to increase the counselling they need, specially for co-morbid diseases.

Pharmacy One

Dr. Khalid Awadat was a man in deed i was glad to hear him talking, he spoke about Pharmacy in History and the Road to Success in pharmaceutic business, he had pointed somethings only Professionals know and the aim we need in life, he had pointed as well that the work to gain money should never be the case but the work to be the manager to the company you work for is our aim to be, he kept saying and it gave me a push and a motivation to what to do in the work i might be seeking!

To our work as students, we had 14 tables, 6 were counselling ones, herbal supplementation, model pharmacy, and many others. we also had a posters section, to display good and bad pharmacy practice, Immunology, and case controlled study, despite the rain that got us all wet and blessed our work we had really succeeded.

JPSA had also a great presence

JPSA had also a great presence along the companies that came, JPSA was responsible for PallaiativeCare Clinic. as for companies it was a great way to see their products and job applications were filled by most of us. The most booth that got my attention was PharmaQuestJo "drug evaluation and research" they showed us the clinical trails that goes here in Jordan and bio-equivalence studies, did you know you can train there??

PharmaQuestJo

Mostly again i have to thank all the people who had made it successful, and a blessed day to pass,Musa Abaddi, Khalid Bawab and mostly Hussain Al-Qaisi.

When can the pharmacist be a supermarket seller!

Ever been in a pharmacy where you entered only to buy gum, makeup, cotton pads…. Many did and honestly no pharmacy is empty of these stuff… Who do you trust more, your mum when telling you about medication or the person in lab coat “if he/she was” ?? for me I think Grany may know about medications more than a pharmacist who smells as a smoker and try to convince me with Chapmix, Necotril, or even Nikotin gum..

Here raises the Question, WHY?? Each person in pharmacy or current collages come from decentfamilies, all are graduated from good school, and believe me no one reach is 5th year in JU and considered a weak pharmacist. Yet you come to cross some people and you wonder how they are pharmacist! Sorry ever came across a graduate student from Petra or Amman Ahlieh! No comparison..

Yet stupid mistakes are done, is this common scenario:

Patient: I need baby aspirin® and something for my tooth its killing me too much.

Pharmacist: sure, Dolora®z is the fastest one, see it has a Rabbit on it.

Patient:  sure it is safe I don’t need any pain I have ulcer already.

Pharmacist: yes this is Ranidin® , and here is 10% discount for coming.

I am not trying to provide an OTC lecture, but WHAT ARE YOU DOING, Aspirin and Ibobrofin, sorry but stupidity is what you have. Here comes the most important thing that makes you a Health Care Provider not someone looking to sell all the amount of this medication coz it has high bonus or near expiry date! Have anyone actually been to a pharmacy that didn’t have a whole shelf of Near Expiry? I don’t think so.

Many and I believe want to graduate and work for a foreign company, end up with 800JD’s per month then settle down, many of those Ph seekers want to be tortures or be named Dr.’s and those whose husband doesn’t approve anything want to work in a pharmacy, and the knowledge stops, no more being updated no more patient counseling nor having a guidelines to fallow, antibiotics will stop working in less than a century and the black ages will hunt again, the good thing many people will die and more space will be held for others.

Sorry to ask but, to be online updated or subscribe for Pharmacy Times® isn’t bad, it will raise you for sure and won’t kill you, no need for you to stop in a lecture and say I haven’t entered a pharmacy since over a decade, or to teach OTC when you never worked in a pharmacy in the country you are teaching it, nor give Ethics when you are not a practice pharmacist. Yes sorry to say I have better knowledge to work in a pharmacy and what’s in the market more than half of Dr.’s who never worked and probably faked their 1440 hours to be a practice pharmacist.

You are a seller when you don’t get updated, when you never work up your career, when you are INEFFECTIVE, make a meaning of your life, or at least don’t kill people by stupid mistakes, be a health care provider and remember the promise you made…