Starting from a young age, I enjoyed performing experiments, whether it was growing plants and testing the effects of different lighting sources or making borax crystal ornaments. Based on these simple activities alone, I knew that my niche was science. Once the time came around to decide what I wanted to do in my life I spent countless hours researching and asking my mentors for advice. This is when pharmacy piqued my interest, and I came to realize just how much it had impacted my life.
The greatest impact that pharmacy has had on me occurred during a time in my life that will always remain a blur. I was a toddler and very prone to ear infections. According to my mom, there was an interval where I had nine ear infections within a span of twelve months. As I grew older the infections became less frequent but they still persisted. Doctors were concerned and said there was a high chance I
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I am not sure what area of hospital pharmacy I would like to specialize in and am hoping that the experience I obtain during the process of obtaining my Doctor of Pharmacy degree will better prepare me for that decision. My immediate goal upon graduation is to complete a hospital pharmacy residency, and from there to find a steady job. After a few years of working in a hospital pharmacy I would like to do research. Based on my past experiences with the extensive use of antibiotics, I hope to be able to help in the development of new antibiotics. With the rapid increase of antibiotic resistance it is important that the rise of new resistant strains is limited and that the development of new antibiotics continues. I am a firm believer that antibiotics are being overused, but I want the future generations to have the same access to antibiotics that I did when I was a young child. Antibiotics truly can make a difference in someone’s
Pharmacy appeals to me because of its potential to ease people’s physical and emotional suffering. The simple act of listening and being empathetic to the concerns of other’s health and wellbeing has inspired me to learn more about the profession. Perseverance in college followed by the biotech industry has provided me with the necessary research skills to be successful. The ever-changing pharmacy field would allow me to continue my education, culminating in an exciting career.
This relates strongly with my long term professional goals. In the long run, I really wish to help as many people as I can by advancing pharmacy. It is a dream to be able to go to a developing country or be part of an organization such as the World Health Organization and spread the knowledge of pharmacy and bring h...
As a pre-pharmacy student, I am aware that any pharmacist has a respected and trusted role in the community. To this end, I have given back my time to the community, working with the mentally handicapped in their daily activities and field trips
As I was getting older, I was finding myself getting bored with the everyday patterns of just existing and not doing something that I really had a passion for. Living comfortably with minimal contribution became increasingly easy for me. Rest assured, I knew my life had bigger meaning and I was meant for something better. Auspiciously, the medical field and the human body had caught my attention. I became increasingly interested in medical research and drug therapy. The reason I have selected pharmacy as a career path is due to the simple fact that I want to make a positive contribution to my peers and surrounding community. Being a face in a community that is known to help people and make them feel comfortable when talking about personal issues, such as medicinal intake, is something I have developed a yearning for.
One of my goals after I have finished high school is to attend pharmacy school. Pharmacy is the career that I want to pursue and have been for a couple years. The reason pharmacy interests me is mostly the setting, having options of working in a hospital, community pharmacy, or even a laboratory. My main interests in school involve math and science, which pharmacy is mostly composed of. My main goal I hope to achieve in life is to attend pharmacy school, graduate, and then become a licensed pharmacist.
Pharmacy has opened my eyes to what health care is truly all about. It isn’t about making decisions in the best interest of ourselves, or the company we work for. Health care is about the patient. Health care is about educating people so that they can make decisions about their body and receive specialized, personal treatment.
Ultimately I decided that a career in Pharmacy was perhaps the best way for me to utilize my talents, while at the same time meet my passionate desire to make the world a better place. What better way to help people than to give them medicine? From that point onward my decisions have been geared towards achieving my goal of becoming a Pharmacist. I realized that going to college for 7 or 8 years to achieve my dream was going to be a very expensive proposition. So I took as many AP and community college classes as possible to lessen the financial burden on myself and my parents. Luckily one of the colleges that had a Pharmacy School that I applied to also offered me a
As my college undergraduate career comes to an end, I recollect the experiences that encouraged me to pursue a degree in pharmacy. I can clearly remember receiving that email from the admissions department of my university saying that I needed to claim my major prior to orientation day. As I read this email my stress levels sky rocketed. I had no idea what major I wanted to be in and I was definitely running out of time. During high school, I followed the medical pathway that my institution offered and I had definitely enjoyed it. This pathway exposed students to healthcare through various programs. For instance, through the course of my junior year, I participated in hospital rotations that allowed me to interact with patients. This primary
When you ask people what you think when word “pharmacist” come to your mind? They often say pharmacist have to deal with variety of legal drugs. From my personal opinion, when I hear the word “Pharmacist”, I think of helping others. This inspiration came from my Health Science class I took in twelve grade. Until senior year of my high school, I did not know what I wanted to be. But it all changed, after my first shadowing experience at pharmacist station. There I learn about what exactly the pharmacist career is about, what are some of the equipments used in the field and how I can contribute the knowledge I receive here to help others.
Since my early schooling days, science and mathematics have always fascinated me given that all components of the world are explained on the basis of these disciplines. In this regard, Pharmacy which is based on Chemistry and Mathematics has interested me a great deal as it has direct impacts on our daily lives. The more I have become familiar with the chemistry and mathematics knowledge involved in pharmacy, the more I have appreciated its significance in improving the lives of people in the community. Out of the many careers that one would opt to pursue, Pharmacy has stood out as the career that will enable me serve the society more directly and have a real impact in the quality of peoples’ lives by touching their health. In addition, I love a career that is challenging and one that I will be involved in even in old age. In this case, Pharmacy offers me this opportunity. My interest in Pharmacy has also developed from my personal health experiences and becoming aware of its expansiveness. Every time I have had to take medicine to cure an illness, I have become more interested to know how drugs are made and how the drug components work in the human body to alleviate pain and restore health. I desire to pursue a career in Pharmacy so as to gain practical experience in these aspects of research.
I chose my past career pharmacy technician. A pharmacy technician assists the pharmacist in filling prescriptions for the patient. There are many different settings and positions in this career. My favorite is the inpatient hospital setting. The technicians prepare IVs, patient medicine trays, and sometimes packages them in the pharmacy so the nurse is able to scan the medications. Other settings include, retail pharmacy where one would interact with the customers, and the main job is to fill the prescription bottles, and sometimes mix up creams in the compounding lab.
I pleased to apply to the PharmD program as the program is one area that corresponds to my career dreams. Being part of this program gives one the opportunity to gain an excellent experience in working and collaborating with various health care providers in the ward. But more importantly, it facilitates a practical environment in dealing more closely with patients. Hence, it helps to provide the ultimate health care services to patients. Also, it permits me to carry on gaining different knowledge, skills, and values in addition to those I have already developed during my undergraduate studies. My interest in being a clinical pharmacist was first aroused during my SPEP rotation in the hospital setting where I was really impressed with the role of clinical pharmacists who provide a consistent process of patient care with healthcare teams to maintain the appropriateness, effectiveness and safety of the medication use. Unlike a pharmacist, a clinical pharmacist has a more diversified responsibilities and closeness to direct patient care. Moreover, provides
During the tenure of five years of undergraduate program I studied variety of different courses including Biochemistry, Anatomy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pathology, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmacognosy, etc. but always found myself more inclined towards pharmacology, physiology and pharmacotherapy of all the different courses I studied and with passing time my interest just grew stronger. In the commencement of undergraduate program, studying different drugs and their mechanisms, diseases and modes of their therapy was merely an interest but by the time my undergraduate degree program ended it became more of a passion. It was for this passion that I decided to pursue a post graduation degree in the respective field. Before I could go any further in academics I wanted to have some practical exposure and consequently, I decided to join a hospital rather than a pharmaceutical industry. Hence, after fighting off a tough competition from all over the country I was recruited among the twenty pharmacy graduates in a year lengthy “On-the-Job Hospital Pharmacist Trainee Program” in July 2013 and currently, I am working as a trainee pharmacist in the most preeminent hospital of the country, Aga Khan Ho...
Pharmacists have very important roles in healthcare from all angles. Physicians and licensed practitioners that write a written prescription, the pharmacist reviews patient history, health conditions, and interactions with the new medication prescribed. As a pharmacy technician (for six years) I had a somewhat of an overview on what they accomplished in a shift but did not know everything on what I know now from this research. Pharmacy students that are in the process to obtain their doctor of pharmacy (D.Pharm.) go through a series of training, education and internship to become a well-rounded pharmacist.
Pharmacist is the vital part of the healthcare team who provides prescription medications to individuals. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010-2011) Their responsibilities cover few essential areas.