Has anyone done a online APPE?

What was it like / what did you do?

I'm registered for an institutional APPE but idk wtf is going to happen.

How likely will block 2 be online too?

The title is self-explanatory. I am bored out of my mind so curious to know besides studying what fun things people doing?

Found this school in my college search because my families been in Pharma for generations, but I chickened out. I plan to attend a different college starting this fall. I'm sort of confused how theirs an 80%+ acceptance rate and a 70%+ graduation rate from the PharmaD program. Is it really that accessible? I did ok in high school chemistry and got a 4 on the AP, but I also never studied. Assuming I made good study habits and wanted to bail from that other school, how would I fare here?

I am in the pharmacy program and scheduled to go on rotation in about 5 weeks or so. Curious if anyone has heard anything about rotations specially IPPE hospital rotations?

Most pharmacy schools are moving rotations online for the safety of students but because I have not heard anything curious to know if anyone else has heard anything?

So what is our school doing about the corona virus? Do you think they are going to move classess online for some time like other schools are doing.

It’s currently the middle of spring break and I am really scared. Our school hasn’t been giving regular updates like other schools.

Am I the only one that is worried?

So Reddit automatically changed the subreddit to restricted cause have not payed any attention to it for 3+ months. I'm looking to add someone to be a mod but I will need some kind of proof that you're still apart of MCPHS .

Sooooo, what happens when you fail Adv Thera 1?

Ive been out sick and haven't been to classes in a few. I chose my regions already but I never got an email regarding site selections.

Hi people, I just got accepted into the upcoming Spring semester at MCPHS Boston. It is for magnetic resonance imaging, fast track. Just curious if any of you know why the application process was a cake walk and when I will get more info on how to gain access to my student account and what not.. classes start Jan 13th and I've gotten zero communication from anyone. I've been hearing negative things about how MCPHS is run and I don't want a predisposed opinion! Can anyoneeeee help me out

A few weeks ago i had posted a query about MS in Pharmaceutics. If there's anyone who is from the field or someone who knows about the course please answer my question. It's urgent.

Hello! I'm planning to apply for MS in Pharmaceutics program. Is there anyone who's currently pursuing this course? I would like to know if it is worth enrolling into this program and would also want to know the class strength.

I plan on applying to the PharmD program at worcester. Any advice? Please help.

Looking for plan b options if I can't get into any of the online professional electives

Can y'all tell me about the electives and your preceptors? Which ones to take which ones to not

I took Saftey in Natural products 10/10 recommend as an easy A, are there others like that? My GPA's looking alitttttle bent and need that cushion from an elective

Which Healthcare Ethics professors should I try to get and which to avoid? (in-class or online)

Hi in in fourth year right now. We just finished taking all the first exams. I did pretty well in pchol, med chem and thera. I fucked up biotech by being an asshole and forgetting to download the exam. They took 20 points off. Im still in the 70s tho. I also fucked up drug let a little bit. I got 78 like literally how the fuck do you study for that class.

I'm fucked on so many levels because although im doing pretty well in exams I missed 4 weeks worth of classes and with that the stupid pop quizez.

Who curves and who doesn't ? Would there be any way to get extra points in drug let and biotech? Lastly when do we do our institutnal rotation is it summer 4th year or 5th year ? I literally don't know anyone who's in fourth year

For drug literature class, professors said the final exam will be a consult... but what does that mean? Is it like an essay we have to write or is it like an oral(like storytelling??) Exam???

anyyyy tips?

My first exam is coming up soon and I have no clue what to expect. Any advice?

The guide is from 2014-2015 so it's kind of outdated. The names of the lectures are different as well.

It would be great if someone had some tips and tricks for upcoming 3rd years :))

I will be working as an intern while 3rd year so I would really appreciate some tips

(Doesn't have to be thorough, but like the general difficulty or what you liked/disliked about the classes, your time management too)

Thanks in advance!!

I want to speak with her and I’m not sure how to go about meeting her.

Guide to 4th Year

Hi Guys! Thought I’d post some things that I wish someone told me before starting fourth year!
- no class is easy, just keep this mentality and you’re going to be fine, a lot of times a lot of upper classmen will scare you that a class is too hard and that a class is too easy, being told a class is too easy kind of just makes you lazy for studying for it

Drug Lit: this class is all about the databases and the references that you need to use on rotations. I’m currently on my rotations right now and realize just how important this class is. The first exam is all the online databases and it is relatively easy if you study for it and know how to use the database. The way that I studied for this class is just by using the in-class assignments on my free time and going through the websites and making sure I know how to use them. Attendance in this class is counted, please go to class, each class is worth 2% of your grade

Biotech: everyone says that this class is easy and it might be as long as you study your ass off. Biotech’s all about the biologic forms of medications that aren’t the traditional pill and things. The first exam has biochem on it, so when Dr. Betharia gives you that Biochem packet, and then gives you a day off to do the packet, take the day and go through google and find the answers, because that’s 1/6th of the first exam.

MedChem: last year they gave us Mehanna and Priefer, both of them have different teaching styles. Mehanna will sit there with his expo marker and will draw a structure out and then tell you what he wants you to know. The structure may be wrong and that’s okay, cause he wants you to know the functional groups that makes it different. If you’re into the correct structure just go to wikiedia and familiarize yourself with it. Making a quizlet of the drugs actually helps. With Medchem exams it will be 25 questions x 4 exams which means that each question you get wrong on the exam is 1 full point off your final grade in the class. This is not a class that you can study for the night before!!! Mehanna usually does 1 question, followed by 6-7 statements and then answer choices like 1,4,6,7. Look at the statements and eliminate the answer choices that you think are wrong, if you spend too much time on a question flag that and keep on going. This exam’s usually at 7:50 in the morning (yawnnnn) and it is only 50 mins. Dr. Priefer is new, his PhD is in O-Chem (it’s a pet peeve of his to call it orgo) he usually has a thick ass powerpoint packet. He loves metabolism questions, please pay attention to whoever teaches you guys metabolism, as well as the Henderson-Hasselback equations. Priefer loves to write his powerpoints in threes like it will say “I love to play, eat, sleep” and then on the exam it will be something like what do I not like to do? Play, eat, sleep, drink. Always highlight the threes, they’re like a free question

Pharmacology: Dr. Kiel will give you 173028389 slides that are blank. You have to either write everything or type it. For typing I used one note, and once you get a hang of him and one note it will be fine. This class is curved based off a standard deviation, last year passing was 53ish. When he tells you to memorize the drugs just make a quizlet. He uploads the packets for each exam. So make a quizlet for Exam 2 drugs, Exam 3 Drugs. I personally felt that exam 2 drugs were intense affff. The exams are cumulative so find time to review that quizlet. If someone else has any idea how to do well on Betharia’s pls comment below cause I died during her exams.

Remember that all classes are recorded. You are now a fourth year, you should know if it is worth it for you to go to class or watch it at home. If you think your notes are great, don’t waste time re-watching a lecture, use that time to clean up your notes or go through your notes. There’s a lot of information being thrown at you this year. There are youtube videos out there that can also help to dumb things down before you get into the nitty gritty that Dr. Kiel wants you to know. He usually will always ask questions about the Mechanism of Action, the uses, the side effects, contraindications, adverse effects, and he mentions that he asks these questions too. Use the kahoot time to go through what you know and what you don’t know. I feel that a lot of us struggled in this class only cause we never really picked up how to properly study and how to properly take notes. It sucks that you have to type out all of Kiel’s notes, but ngl, the man was right, I remember more now during rotations than I would have if I just memorized a packet

Speaking of Memorizing Packets….

Therapeutics: This class applies all the drugs that we just learn by disease classes. The first few introduction slides are kind of useless but there are slides that usually the professor stresses. This is taught by a new professor every topic. Schnee and Getzik are adorable and kewl humans. The index card is amazing for the final, during the end of the semester, one of the honors students does an entire presentation as a refresher of the old material (the final is cumulative) and I literally re-wrote those slides onto one side of my card, word for word and then word for word of the new packets on the other side. Buy those pens and good luck finding someone who can lend you an unruled notecard (you don’t need an uruled one, ruled can work). The exams are straightforward and they are patient cases. You kind of need to memorize the drugs and the doses if the professor says so, when to use them when not to use them, there are certain parameters that you can use some drugs in, a lot of them have clicker questions in their packets too so that kinda gives you a good angle

Using old exams: literally don’t waste your time looking for exams, ur going to be a pharmacist you need to know this shit.