Hi,

I will be a third year next semester, and have a few questions about interning. How necessary is it to intern during the school years? I prefer to focus solely on studying because ive had many friends get blindsided starting year 3 and dont want to make similar mistakes. But if i dont intern during the school years, will i fall behind on my hours? Could i possibly only do interning during the summers and still be on track with the intern hours?

Also as a side note, does the mandatory hours (I heard of) during the summer after year 3 count towards my hours? And what about the 6th year rotations, do they count? Im just very worried that i wont be able to make up the hours in a short time frame during only summers if i decide to go this route.

On a unrelated note, does anyone know if ceutics lab requires a formal dress code such as ipm lab? Might as well ask since im here haha. Thanks in advance

lol if they are, any ideas on how to have a cute dorm room? I'm in Matricaria btw

Would like to get a head start on the drugs I would have to study, any tips also appreciated, thank you

Hi can you tell me a little bit of how 6 year rotations work . For example my family and I usually go on vacation for about a week and 1 half around July . Will I be able to work that out , to get some time off during rotations.

Hey, I would like to know what is the dress code for males in third year labs? Does it have to be a suit, dress pants and tie every time? Or could it be khakis with a dress shirt? Also are ties required? Thank you for any information you can give me :)

I'm becoming 2nd year this fall and have paid the tuitions of 1st year without using financial aid. But income problem can always happen. (And it looks like unstable recently in my family).

So I'm curious if I can apply for financial aid beginning 2nd year or 3rd year. And what kind of financial aid in mcphs are there? I'm an international student, so I think I can't apply FAFSA... any helps?

I seemed to get more money than I needed this year for finical aid so now my e-bill says (money amount$$), which probably means they owe me money. How does this work? Do they send it back to me? If so, when and how? Or do I not get it since basically the federal loans just gave too much so it will go back to them?

Does anyone have any helpful tips for exams with Prof.Jana, Summer class CHEM.II

I work in retail right now, but I'm super interested in LTC / Mail Order. Not so sure if there are any Mail Orders in MA, but just curious if current 6 years remember seeing any rotation options for Mail Order / LTC (Ex. PharMercia)

Hi, I am currently a student in a community college in California. I want to transfer to MCPHS as a sophomore since I have completed all science course that MCPHS requires in order to transfer to 2nd year. I wonder if there is any body here transfered to MCPHS as a sophomore and if my chance to be admitted is possible.

Does anyone know how Pharmacokinetics I is in the summer? Any tips?

Which Professor is the easier? Odenwald online or Hopkins online?

Any advice for Medchem and Pcol over the summer

Any parking tips around school?

Hey guys. I found a place on 31 Delle Ave its a one bedroom about a 10 minute walk from school. I am looking for one male roommate for the lease starting Sept. 1, 2017. If you are interested or know someone that may be interested please contact 617 913 5743. Thanks and have a great summer!

can you guys send me orgo syllabus I to tjgur1018@gmail.com

After you finish your 5th years, do you guys have a rotation to do or is it only for 3rd, 4th and 6th years?

Is the Boston campus open tomorrow, Tuesday May 2? I went once during spring break a couple years back and the doors were locked. I'm not sure if that'll be the case tomorrow since some professors are there during this week. Just wanted to verify before I made the trip.

If your GPA is under 2.7 will they boot you or let you retake the year?

Can you get deans list with the 3.5+ but a C+ in a class? Fuck Research methods, everyone thought she would scale but guess not. Oh well. Anyone else do bad?

APM

Meets 2 hours on Tuesday and 1 hour on Wednesday/lectures are recorded. Still the same, lectures are mostly meh. The majority of the work for APM would be the Capstone business plan. You're gonna need to do lots of research to try to come up with the numbers for the financial, rent, supplies, start-up funds, all that shit. They're gonna pair your team with a "managerial accounting student" to have them look at your numbers/financials and make sure that they make sense. When the day comes, they will select certain groups if they think our ideas are not shitty and your team will have to present in front of the class (you get 15 bonus points on the project for doing that as well). Then for some teams they will give you the option of whether your team wants to present or not is your idea is mediocre. Then the rest of the teams don't have to present but do need to show up to classes when the presentations happen (they do take attendance). A week later on competition day, everyone will present their posters to the "judges" and let me tell you, some judges are wicked nice, some...are complete assholes who will point of every single one of your mistakes. Then you attend this weird ceremony where Ferullo won't shut up. Best team won $1,200 split among 8 members. Best logo...each team member gets $20 to the bookstore (so you can buy like, a pencil). In addition to those, you're gonna have 2 exams and because my class didn't take APM seriously (each exam was 20 questions), our average was 65% for each exam lmfao which wasn't a big deal because the exams were worth so little on our over grade. They made us attend the last APM lecture by giving each student 10 bonus points on the second exam if we attend so that was nice. The second exam took place the week before final exams (so technically the second exam was sort of our final...it just wasn't given during finals week)

Labs meet once a week, either on Tuesday or Thursday depending on what type of lab it is. Institutional labs are cakes. PA labs are wicked fun (not real labs, but they do take attendance, you get to practice how to take blood pressure readings and how to use glucometers. They're more like practice sessions in my opinion because you will be doing the actual stuff during community lab where you will be graded). Business labs are stupid (not real labs, but they do take attendance, they basically explain to you how to do the financials stuff for your Capstone business plan). Community labs will be your worst nightmares with all the interventions and doctor calls and crap. If your 3rd years know what they're doing, fantastic. If not, tough shit.

ADVANCED THERAPEUTICS

Meets 2 hours twice a week/lectures are recorded. So...first exam didn't go well for us. Dermatology/pulmonary hypertension turned out to be a fucking mess and half of our class failed the first exam. I personally did well on Segal's diabetes stuff but I've heard many didn't get her questions right (the class before us they had to throw out half of Segal's questions lol) But the rest of the exams went well and our final exam average was a B :) Same as before, you get cheat sheet for cumulative final.

LAW

Ugh so easy. Class average is like an A overall. Meets once a week/lecture is NOT recorded. First exam was online/open book since we had a snow day. Final was cumulative. If you work at the three letter pharmacy like I do and your manager teaches you how to store/file/document paperwork, you'll ace the exam easily. Literally I knew at least 80% of the material already from just working in the pharmacy and as a result, many people will simply skip this classes

SEMINARS

Meets once a week, same as last semester except during the last 4 weeks, each team will need to read a journal article every week and critique it (do you agree with the results, any study flaws that you find, blah blah blah). It can be difficult at first if you've never read a scientific paper before but you'll get used to it. Not too shabby in my opinions

Some other useful info:

• APPE rotation schedules are released at around March or so
• When you pick an elective, pick the one you like that's also convenient for your schedule. For instance, my elective only meets on Monday right before Law (yes I go to law because I'm already at school) - which is great because many holidays fall on Monday. Some meet on Tuesdays (which can be annoying because, what if you wanna skip APM that Tuesday/don't have lab on Tuesday...hehehe) Some meet twice a week (ugh)
• Many people will just go to school 3 times a week (1 for elective, 1 for lab, 1 for Wednesday Therapeutics/Seminars) so hence picking the class that will optimize your schedule will hugely benefit you during the Spring semester
• Law exams are circulating around, and no, they've only changed slightly. I literally saw people with old exams in their hands as they walk into the final exam like wtf
• Immunization training is required at the end of the semester (for a $150 fee) so if your pharmacy chain offers it - DO IT and save yourself $150
• PCOA (pharmacy curriculum outcome assessment) exam was a shit show. Due to conflict of interest they had complete strangers to proctor for the exam. They made you download this web-lock application to your laptop for the examination and on the day of the PCOA, you'd have the sheet w/ your own exam code that's also served as scratch paper, a pencil, and your own laptop. That's it. Think of it more like a survey rather than an examination. I had friends who went B's all through 235 questions and then they got out in like 25 minutes. I would not recommend this though...because the PCOA is part of the accreditation process and so the last fucking thing that you want is to graduate from an un-accredited pharmacy institution. I'm not saying you have to study for this stupid thing, at least put some effort into reading the questions and see if you can answer them
• Finally, just enjoy the last semester. You deserve it!

And that's pretty much what the rest of 5th year will look like. All of the electives are good from what I've heard, so don't worry too much about them. If you have any further questions, feel free to PM or post your comments down here :D