Pharmacy or Pre Med????

Andorvw
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:25:50 +0000

Couple things to be considered. St John’s PharmD program is 6 yrs and full scholarship typically only covers the first 4 yrs (undergrad) so the last 2 yrs you’ll pay full tuition (that’s $40k/yr, which is my nephew is paying). The PharmD program has pretty high attrition rate in the first 2-3 yrs (I heard close to 40-50%). After my nephew survived the first 2 years, he started kicking himself for why not going pre-med because he thought he could do much better with MD instead of PharmD considering all the science (bio, chem) courses are pretty much the same. St John’s PharmD is a great program and he had no problem finding pretty good pay pharm-tech job at NYC hospital while he’s still pursuing PharmD. As other said, you’ll need to wait couple years after PharmD to apply to med school (same goes for nursing students). The main key difference is that Pharmacy is a saturated job market while MD is not, but pre-med route carries much higher risk (only 25% survive to get to the application stage and 40% accepted each application cycle).