can anyone who currently is or went to UF give tips on what to expect (especially in the flipped classroom style) as a P1. I know everyone says to just relax during the summer but did you wish you brushed on some skills before hand? Also what items did you purchase / or wish you purchased that helped most during school? thanks!
I just finished my P1 year at the university that I also attended for undergrad. I work as an intern at an independent compounding pharmacy, and I graduated with a BA in chemistry, so I’m very interested in the compounding side of pharmacy. I have been having issues with my background screenings to become an intern, and it is really disappointing.
To give context, during my junior year of college, I went to a bar, got too drunk and fought with the bouncer when he grabbed me. (Mind you, I’m 5’2 and 21 years old at the time). He pressed an assault charge against me and so I have a violent crime on my record. I am not belittling this experience and am in no way saying violence is reflective of pharmacist behavior, but I as a drunk and dumb college student, I did not consider the consequences. I was arrested and wrote my pharmacy application essay on the access to medicine in jail systems. I come from a supportive family, and I have since done therapy and limited drinking to avoid a situation like this ever happening again. I can get this charge expunged in mid October of this year.
I got into pharmacy school, obtained my intern license, and completed my first year smoothly. I was accepted to work as a nuclear pharmacy intern at the hospital affiliated with my university, and they instantly shut me down with my background screening. I have a badge and access to the hospital as a student affiliated with the university, I can do hospital rotations med recs, but cannot work there, and there is also no ability to reapply. Nuclear / sterile compounding is my dream job as of right now, and it is so discouraging.
I understand hospitals have policies in place especially toward violent crimes, and I am grateful that the board of pharmacy granted me my intern license regardless of my situation.
I just wanted to vent, because the past is looming over me at a pivotal time, and it hurts. I was also banking on having 2 jobs over summer to save a lot of money, especially with the hospital pay. Right now I am considering server jobs until my background check clears.
Please no judgement, I am completely aware of how I got myself into this situation, and I am not looking for handouts or easy solutions.
I did it guys
I finished my first year of pharmacy school. Both semesters with straight As. I seriously cannot believe it. I never thought I would be smart enough to pursue a career in the medical field, but I'm doing it and I'm so proud of myself. I don't know where to post this so I apologize if this is the wrong thread lol
I just finished my P1 year with a 3.0 GPA. I had a low GPA in my first semester as I came back to school after 3 years and it was hard for me to adjust with all the intensive materials.I was working 10/12 hrs everyday during that time.
I wanna do ambulatory care residency once I graduate but the exam grade is making me feel dumb. I feel I am not even smart enough to even apply for residency. I know the materials but I get anxious a little during exam and make easy mistakes. I am confident in my knowledge of the topic but exam grades just keep pulling me down.
Besides, I also had to keep a 3.5 gpa to keep my scholarship which I am loosing now, so it is making me more anxious. I did not take any loan in my P1 year and was hoping to only take in during my P3 and P4. But now I have to take in some next year. My parents have been helping out so I saved money because of it.
I have been a technician in both retail and hospital for the last 7 years. I never regret coming to pharmacy school as I see myself doing this even with all the negativity around this profession.
I just wanna know how I can I keep myself motivated throughout motivated with all of this? Any advice to
Restart fresh after the summer?
I wasn’t the smartest student. Got suspended once back in 2023. Since then, I studied hard and did pass all future courses. But as you can see, not with the metric Faculty expects of its students.
Empathy is appreciated.
But while the shock and adrenaline are still affecting me, I’m seeking advice with what to do.
I’m 26 years old, wasted 3 years of my life for nothing. If I allow myself to cry right now, I won’t come back from that. Before I lay down and grieve I at least want to draft out what the hell to do with my life.
Appeal
Start again elsewhere
Quit future Pharmacy attempts or Healthcare all together.
I’d appreciate any advice, from those who started again and succeeded or from those whose kin were also dismissed and managed to move on successfully.
Please
Hello,
I am starting UofA's pharmacy school this August, and I am just wondering how you guys prepped for pharmacy school. Last couple of years I have been doing okay with ochem but not to the standard I would want before starting pharm school. I do understand the idea of taking this summer off, but I also wanna make sure that some of the material when I come in is not completely new.
Please let me know any tips,
Thank you
For a C-II hardcopy that is electronically printed with all else being accurate, is the electronic printed date sufficient? Or does the provider need to handwrite the date (in addition to their signature)?
Context: System outage. Prescriber gives patient a C2 hardcopy that is SIGNED but no handwritten date. The date is, however, printed on the valid electronic hardcopy.
I was under the impression that if an exception applies allowing a paper prescription (e.g., system outages or temporary technological failures), the date can be pre-printed or computer-generated by the software system under 21 CFR § 1306.05(d) and California health safety exemptions. However, the prescriber must still manually provide a physical, "wet" signature in ink onto that printed form before it is legally valid.
SECONDLY, does this change if the question is applied specifically for California? How about other states?
Thanks!
What type of study material would make your life easier when studying pharmacology and medicinal chemistry?
Summaries, mind maps, simplified mechanisms of action, comparison tables, mnemonics, flashcards, commented questions, etc.?
What kind of material would actually save you time and make studying easier?
Looking for pharmacy private tutors. I am a year 1 student at University of Nottingham Malaysia and I’m looking to increase my grades from 70 to 90
Just started my Internal Med rotation and I’m having a hard time breaking down the info to focus on when it comes to working up a patient. I know the basics like looking at labs, imaging, meds, etc but idk I feel like I’m always missing information.
Any tips would be appreciated!
Hello All,
I was just curious to know if other schools require that their students pass a practice naplex exam in order to graduate.
My school implemented a new rule this year where we have to take a practice naplex exam through RxPrep (200 questions for 6 hours) and we have to pass in order to graduate. We have 2 tries but if we fail on both tries, we get to walk on graduation this week, but our degree will be held back until August. This means we cannot sit for the NAPLEX until the fall in the earliest.
Any other school doing this?
I really need help and I’m lost as heck. I got into a pharm d program (Yipee) but I’m lost for applying to loans about the grad plus is gonna be gone come July. Where would you recommend to apply loans for like schooling cost and tuition and then also taking out loans for personal so I can like pay my apartment and get groceries and all this kind of stuff???
I filled out my FASFA to start but I don’t know where to go from there. I really need help in anyone I asked for advice from doesn’t really give me anything to work with.
Thank you in advance ❤️
Its has been a month that I got my final grade. The fall semester I failed 2 classes and I was trying to remediate in the summer. Unfortunately, I failed another course which i am ineglible to remediate. Now I have to repeat P1. I feel guilty, awful. I thought I was smarter to handle this situation because my undergraduates grades were excellent with a GPA of 3.5
What really bother me is that I have been working as a pharmacy technician since 2011. I felt confident by having a good background but it didnt work.
I cant sleep, I am having depression, I dont want to do anything, just thinking about it. This torture is killing me. I hope I can find any one with this situation and give me a good advice on how to overcome it. I need to keep going because I am a single mom but I can't. I try to put a smile on my face showing my son that I am OK when I am not. Please give me a good advice so I can feel a little bit better. Or how can I prepare for the next upcoming year?
Hi, I’m revising for a pharmaceutical calculations exam and I’m trying to work out what rounding convention is expected when the question does not specify decimal places or significant figures.
I understand the maths, but I’m unsure whether final answers should be left as exact calculated values, rounded to a practical whole unit, or rounded to 1 d.p./3 s.f.
Here are examples from my practice questions.
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Example 1 — moles
How many moles of solute are there in 36 mL of a 0.85 mol/L solution?
36 mL = 0.036 L
0.85 × 0.036 = 0.0306 mol
Would you write the final answer as:
0.0306 mol or 0.031 mol?
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Example 2 — sodium ion content
How many mg of sodium ions are contained in a 1 g tablet of sodium chloride?
RMM NaCl = 23 + 35.5 = 58.5
1000 mg × 23 ÷ 58.5 = 393.162 mg Na⁺
Would you write:
393 mg or 393.2 mg?
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Example 3 — mmol of sodium
How many mmol of sodium are contained in 300 mL of 0.45% w/v NaCl?
0.45% w/v = 0.45 g/100 mL
In 300 mL:
0.45 × 300 ÷ 100 = 1.35 g NaCl
1.35 ÷ 58.5 × 1000 = 23.0769 mmol Na⁺
Would you write:
23 mmol or 23.1 mmol?
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Example 4 — potassium ion content
How many mg of potassium ions are contained in a 1.2 g tablet of potassium chloride?
RMM KCl = 39 + 35.5 = 74.5
1200 mg × 39 ÷ 74.5 = 628.1879 mg K⁺
Would you write:
628 mg or 628.2 mg?
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Example 5 — mmol of chloride
How many mmol of chloride are contained in 150 mL of 1.2% w/v NaCl?
1.2% w/v = 1.2 g/100 mL
In 150 mL:
1.2 × 150 ÷ 100 = 1.8 g NaCl
1.8 ÷ 58.5 × 1000 = 30.7692 mmol Cl⁻
Would you write:
30.8 mmol, or round to a whole mmol as 31 mmol?
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Example 6 — mmol of potassium
How many mmol of potassium are contained in 150 mL of 1.2% w/v KCl?
1.2% w/v = 1.2 g/100 mL
In 150 mL:
1.2 × 150 ÷ 100 = 1.8 g KCl
1.8 ÷ 74.5 × 1000 = 24.1611 mmol K⁺
Would you write:
24 mmol or 24.2 mmol?
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The practice papers I’m using seem inconsistent: some answers keep decimals, e.g. 12.198 g or 235.9 mg, while some answers seem to use whole mmol values.
Hey Guys!
Wanted to put this out there for people who are going to be attending University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy in the fall of 2026 so we can all get to know each other! I can also create a group chat if enough people respond
I’m a pharmacy student who just finished my P2 year. It seems like everyone is interested in doing a residency or going into the industry, but I’m not really interested in either. I would like to work at an independent pharmacy or in an outpatient hospital pharmacy or mail in order pharmacy. Honestly, I’m just tired of studying right now, and all I can think about is graduating. I’ve shadowed clinical pharmacists before, and I don’t think that’s the path for me.
Is it going to be a problem if I don’t pursue a residency like other students? I feel a lot of pressure to do one because it seems like that’s what everyone expects.
When a student tells me they're bad at calculations, I ask them to show me their work on a problem they got wrong. Almost every time, the issue isn't what they think it is.
There are 10 distinct failure points in pharmacy calculations:
Unit conversion failure — wrong conversion factor, or skipping a conversion entirely
Formula misuse — plugging numbers into the wrong formula or misremembering the formula
Setup breakdown — correct pieces, wrong arrangement before the math even starts
Concentration/dilution confusion — mixing up mg/mL, percent strength, ratio strength, or which volume is which
Flow-rate/infusion errors — misidentifying what's being solved for: mL/hr vs drops/min vs total infusion time
Alligation errors — not knowing when to use it, or setting up the grid incorrectly
Answer-sense failure — getting an answer and not recognizing it's impossible (100 mL/hr vs 1000 mL/hr, for example)
Time-pressure breakdown — knows the material, falls apart on a timed exam
Weak checking habit — no verification step, errors that would have been caught with a second pass
Study-process failure — practicing answers instead of practicing the setup
Most students who think they have a "calculations problem" actually have 2-3 specific problems from this list. The other 7-8 are fine.
Studying more calculations without knowing which of these is breaking down is like taking more of the wrong medication. The effort is real. The outcome won't be.
The first thing I do with every student is identify their actual failure pattern before touching content. Everything else follows from that.
Happy to answer questions in the comments.
I am in an online certificate program that self-paced and I’m absolutely lost. I’m supposed to remember brand names categories and scientific names for each drug, but I am having a very difficult time with remembering and telling all them apart by name, categories and brand names. The program I’m with is Pharmacy Tech Academy.
Any tips for the fall of P2 year? Really trying to stay on top before the semester begins.
Here are the hardest classes I will be taking:
Has anyone bought these flashards?:
so i’m going to apply for fall 2027 admission and i j want to know what my chances are
-c3.42 gpa with real strong upwards trend ( and science gpa upwards trend )
- 300+ hours as retail, institutional , and hospital tech
- 3 letters of recommendation ( teacher, work, and pharmacist who i’ve been ig interning with at new retail place )
- registered and certified
- eboard for pharmacy club
i think my app is okay but if anyone is able to help me fill any gaps that would be great like where weak spots maybe. i have some volunteering as well nothing crazy so maybe that’s something gotta work on. thank you .