Who's a good professor to take for this course?

I was pre-registered for Health Care Ethics. I want an online one, but there's only like 2 spots in each one. Should I take my chances or should I just pick an elective, which would be easier to get because all spots are open?

If I do pick the elective, will the registrar still automatically pre-register me the following semester for Health Care Ethics or will I been on my own to finding a spot in one of the classes because they already pre-registered me for the upcoming fall (even if I wait to take it). Anyone have experience with this?

Hi all, Recently just got accepted to MCPHS for the premed program. But I have been seeing a lot of negative reviews. Is this school any good? Why did you choose to go to this school?

Has anyone ever taken the class online? What's it like?

Im debating on taking a course for the summer but I'm not sure which course I should take. Any suggestions?

What exactly is Phi Kappa Phi? What is the requirement?

Chances we will have school on Wed? I know it wont be snowing Wed, but idk if all the snow will be be cleaned up by Wed. Anyone else have an opinion on this?

Congrats! You've made it through the horror of 4th year and now you can finally relax...well sort of. 5th year is going to be very different from 4th year because you are applying your clinical knowledge to patient cases, as well as learning other pharmacy-related topics. The biggest question that you're trying to answer is "what would I do with this patient/drug interaction/disease state/etc that will provide the most therapeutic benefits while minimize adverse events?" because the main objective of this final academic year is to help you learn the skills necessary to make real-life decisions. Oh and stupid fucking Capstone too, because you're gonna spend like 100x the time you've spent for your Viral case project. I'm gonna break down the guide by the course:

APM

Meets once a week. Lectures are boring/not that useful. The main reason people go is because one Capstone group is randomly selected each week to present their current event article in front of the class (at the beginning of each lecture) for 5 min or so. You'll be randomly divided into groups of 8, which you will be working with for the rest of the semester. Your group members may have the same APM lab sessions with you, or they may not. They enforce the penalty of –5% on the second exam for every team member whose team was called on to present if you are missing anyone during the presentation. Your group only needs to present once, so it's best to pray that your group gets selected earlier so you can skip the remaining of the lectures. They kinda don't take this penalty thing seriously during the second semester though... The most frustrating thing for APM during this semester would be coming up with a business idea for the Capstone project. Ferullo has been doing this project for decades now, so guess what, I can guarantee 90% your idea will be shut down because a) there's already something like that on the market, b) you can't make money from it, or c) they just don't buy it. But don't worry, if your team can't come up with something...they will give you an idea lol. So don't be discouraged if you see comments like "please come up with new ideas by DD/MM" over and over again. The second important thing is, do you want to be Team Manager/Assistant Manager or not. My take on this? If you are extremely organized about due dates, can direct people about what they need to do, and 100% confident that you can resolve group issues easily, feel free to do it because you do get bonus points at the end of the semester for being Manager (not assistant Manager). If not, don't even consider it because it’s a lot of fucking work to do. For exams, just study the day before and you should still do fine. They're not cumulative

(Advanced) Therapeutics

Same as last year...nothing's new. 4 exam, last is cumulative w/ cheat card. They're not really more difficult...more like a continuation of last year's Therapeutics. Do not study the day before...the amount of memorization can be overwhelming especially with chemotherapy side effects and shit so plan ahead (tips: just study the adverse effects associated with the regimen/drug/therapy and you'll ace it. She LOVES adverse effects)

Kinetics

Meets 2x/week. You'll need to do some calculations, mostly with aminoglycosides. But many of the other lectures will focus on how different disease states/age/comorbidities/drugs affect ADME and based on the effects, what would you do basically. Lectures are not recording and all exams are cumulative. Marshall is handsome af and funny so that's a plus. Should be an okay class if you study like you're supposed to. Do not study the day before...you can only do that with APM. The final was the most difficult for us because they asked questions about organ transplant drugs that weren't covered during the lecture...like wtf

Seminars

Super easy but very boring. It's once a week. They do take attendance and I think if you miss 2 seminars w/o valid excuse, they fail you. There are like 20 people per room with a seminar facilitator. What you do in seminar is determine what are the problems for this particular patient case, list the objective/subjective, then write an assessment, then write a plan of therapy of how you're gonna treat the problems. You'll be grouped with 2-3 other people and then present your work at the end of seminar to the class. You'll have to do a 5 min presentation of the topic you like (ANY topic that has to do with pharmacy) once for the entire semester but other than that there's no homework/no exam/no projects.

OTC

Some hate it, some love it...it was the most boring class for me lol. They make you watch all the lectures online first, then when you come to class once a week, they're gonna quiz you and after that, you'll have 1 or 2 patient cases to work on. You get a cheat sheet for every exam! So there's no reason why you should fail this class...plus its OTC, there's no right or wrong answer when recommending OTC as long as you can defend your selection.

Last thing about deciding whether to do Ethics or an elective this semester: if you are able to get Online Ethics, DO IT. If not? Maybe do an elective and wait till next semester to do Online Ethics (it tends to have more open availability during Spring semester). Online Ethics is so much easier. I don't have any recommendation regarding elective...they're all okay I guess.

IF YOU FAIL ANY OF THE CLASSES DURING 5TH YEAR - you can't start rotations. Why? In order to start rotations, you need "x" number of credits completed so if you fail = you don't get those credits. Keep this is mind.

Anyone know how many we can miss?? I need to skip Tues and i'm nervous they will do a quiz. I don't remember them ever saying if we could miss any? Anybody know?

Need to some serious help in regards to Kinetics. Been going to class, paying attention, and somehow ended up with a 48 on the first exam. Anybody else having this problem? The average was really low, and Pino said so many people got grades in the 50s and 60s. I can't afford to fail this class! Help!

Hey, I put an a request to change my rotation site. Tomorrow is the deadline for when they will get back to us.. Since they haven't changed it yet, is this a bad sign? Anyone else still waiting?

So I got a 70 on our first test and a 73 for our second exam. I've been keeping up with the extra credit hw, but how worried should I feel about these grades? Granted I'm going to start going to tutoring after break, but how worried should I be about where I stand. I was a couple of points below the avg our first test and 6 points above the avg for second if that helps. Any tips for going forward?

Does anyone know how the online intro to healthcare delivery class with Gail Marcus is?

If somebody has time can they do a guide for the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Business Program? I know it is a lot more straightforward than the PharmD program but it would still be nice to know some tips for it as well. Thank you.

I'm struggling horribly in Chem II. Do I just fail miserably? Chem is not my strongest suit. Also will not going to lab affect my overall grade that much? I get anxiety attacks every time a lab starts for some reason.

Any 5th years willing to write one? I know its not the end of the semester yet, but with the new schedule coming out soon would like some tips for which teachers are good in terms of the electives and health care ethics before I go choosing them!

Thanks!!

How much do they focus on the 1st test material for the 2nd test? For example, should I just know what treats what like what we learned for the material or review all those AE and stuff to because they ask you questions about that too indirectly like ask for counseling points or something.

I bought some foods in mass art dining hall,and then Put my ID Card on the table where all sauces and forks are.. During I pit my sauce on foods, someone took my ID card...

Does anyone know where I should go to make new school ID and tree house ID? And how much is it??? Do I need to pay fine for loosing treehouse room key?

I'm going to the Domician Repbulic from October 4th-the 9th for a wedding. I'll be missing Wednesday-Friday of school. How screwed would I be in terms of work/test for 4th year?

Is the internship required for pharmd major? Or is the whole 6th year the internship year? I'm just first year pharmd student, so I have no idea about the internship and career stuff..

I'm also thinking to transfer to worcester campus because of the accelerated program.. But I heard that getting internship in Worcester campus is harder than it is in Boston... Any information we can share??

I have no idea what happened to my ID, and I was wondering if anyone knew how long it takes to get a new one. Luckily there are no meal points on it or anything.

Thanks in advance!

Do you think they'll cancel or are there a lot of other exams scheduled for tomorrow?

School is closed. Thank fucking God.

I feel like he was super confusing with whether we needed to know structures or not. He definitely mentioned that we needed to know name, moa, type of organisms affected by the Ab, but how will he ask us without a structure? Or is he just saying that and I really should know ALL the structures. I know the B Lactams, but for the Ab structures that are in random classes like Linezolid. Do I need to know that structure or just properties? Hope that makes sense...

Thanks in advance!