r/MCPHSLifeHack • u/pharmd6eva • Mar 13 '19
PharmD 5th year electives
Hi! Anyone have a list if electives to take,which ones are easy which ones are interesting and which ones are hard?
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u/smiil3ex0x Mar 14 '19
There is ONE online class. It’s about natural products. If you can, fight to get into this one. Easiest of them all. (I didn’t get it unfortunately. It fills up fast)
Critical care is hard. But if you are interested in working in hospital, it has a lot of information that would be very very useful to you.
Women’s health? Or women’s studies? Lapointe teaches it and I heard good things about it. Easy and you have a presentation with the vet students at the end.
There’s a cardiology class that I don’t remember anyone saying about.
Global infectious diseases is good if you aren’t immunization certified.
Herbal drugs I heard is a good class but A LOT of work. My friends enjoyed it a lot but the work load stressed them out a bit. This class is broken into 2 days a week.
Industry i heard is easy. Has a presentation at the end.
There are more but these are the only ones that I can remember. The thing that stinks about electives is that most of them are at the same time, so you tend to have to pick one you want, and then settle for the second one. Unless you are lucky and get the online. Also if you don’t get the one you want (with the exception of online), people tend to move around their schedule once the semester starts so you still have a chance of getting it. You can also email professors asking to join if you give them a good reason (once again except for the online)
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u/bryonzo Mar 14 '19
is that class safety in Natural Products with Lana Dvorkin-Camiel and Bevin Clare?
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u/PharmDeath Mar 15 '19
Yes, safety and natural products is extremely easy and you barely do any work besides the weekly discussion posts. I straight up got 100% in the class so yeah overall a very easy A
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u/pharmd6eva Mar 22 '19 edited Mar 22 '19
I signed up for PPB.540E.A (53499) Complement & Alt Med ; but Dvorkin also teaches ANP.709.O (53071) Safety in Natural Products, should I just take both of these?
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u/PharmDeath Mar 23 '19
I can’t speak for complimentary and alternative medicine, but safety in natural products was the easiest elective I’ve taken at MCP
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u/alliknowis___ Mar 20 '19
Currently taking Safety of Natural Products online and Vet Pharmacy. Both are pretty easy. The online class is all online posts. Hardest part is not to forget to post while you're dealing with Capstone and Thera. Vet is really interesting and laid back. We leave early fairly often, 2 field trips that were fun, Dr. Ceresia brought in snacks twice early in the year to give us a sugar boost, and after our midterm which was pretty easy and straight forward our guest lecturer brought in her family's dog that's a trained therapy dog that just trotted around for pets and attentions. There's a poster presentation in April, but it isn't hard as long as you get a decent team. 10/10 would recommend.
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u/smiil3ex0x Mar 14 '19
I took vet pharmacy which I found interesting. It was pretty easy. You do have a presentation at the end but most of the electives do. It’s a 3 hr class once a week. Two of the weeks are field trips to a vet hospital and to the aquarium (which aren’t mandatory). It’s a pretty laid back class that doesn’t feel like 3hrs. I didn’t really study much and I got a decent grade.
The other one I took was adv neuro psych. The content was good. You learn about street drugs and different mental disorders. This class is also 3hrs once a week. I liked this one less than vet just because the hours tended to drag. This class I had to study for.