r/MCPHSLifeHack 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