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Ucc Pharmacy Course

  • 13-07-2008 11:31pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭


    Hi. Im hopefully going to do pharmacy in UCC next year 2009/2010 if all goes well in the leaving cert and I was just wondering if anybody who is doing the course could give me a low down?? eg. hours

    Cheers
    Thanks


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 630 ✭✭✭Lucas10101


    Hi,

    I've finished first year, so I'll be able to tell you about it alright. Personally, it isn't that hard to begin with! It's going to eb easier for you because they have cut the Chemistry portion of the course by 25% and probably all the interesting stuff as well, I don't understand why and probably never will because it's really not that hard, quite easy to be honest, at first it seems like a lot, but it's not. There's around 30 hours a week and the worst part of the course is before Christmas when you have those dreaded Chemistry Labs, beware Andrea, the Sinister Sister of Satan. After Christmas, things start to get better somehow, the hours of the course go down, probably to 25 or something. I'd love to slate the lecturers but would be worried in case someone reported it or something. Overall it's a nicely made course, anything else you want to know ask?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    Lucas10101 wrote: »
    Hi,

    I've finished first year, so I'll be able to tell you about it alright. Personally, it isn't that hard to begin with! It's going to eb easier for you because they have cut the Chemistry portion of the course by 25% and probably all the interesting stuff as well, I don't understand why and probably never will because it's really not that hard, quite easy to be honest, at first it seems like a lot, but it's not. There's around 30 hours a week and the worst part of the course is before Christmas when you have those dreaded Chemistry Labs, beware Andrea, the Sinister Sister of Satan. After Christmas, things start to get better somehow, the hours of the course go down, probably to 25 or something. I'd love to slate the lecturers but would be worried in case someone reported it or something. Overall it's a nicely made course, anything else you want to know ask?

    Good man, thanks a lot. How many people were in first year this year if you dont mind me asking?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    going into 4th year next year all i can say is

    GET OUT, GET THE **** OUT NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    go to trinity or rcsi. put them down first. seriously


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭wexhurdler


    bleg wrote: »
    going into 4th year next year all i can say is

    GET OUT, GET THE **** OUT NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    go to trinity or rcsi. put them down first. seriously

    come on you cant say that witout explaining why:(! whats makes it so bad??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    Why is it that Im hearing great things and the other hand terrible things about the course?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    JSK 252 wrote: »
    Why is it that Im hearing great things and the other hand terrible things about the course?
    Every course is gonna be like that. Theres always some people who love their course, and others who get through the first few months and decide they made a HUGE mistake, and the course isnt for them. Don't worry bout it too much. If you really want to do pharmacy, go for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭thebigcheese22


    Good advise Aidan!
    You should be the resident shrink of BIS :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    Can anybody else else cast their knoweledge about the course?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ccmac98


    The real question you need to be looking at is whether you should study pharmacy at all, regardless of the location of study. The Minister of Health has passed legislation allowing her to unilaterally alter reimbursement payments to pharmacies , following the loss of a high court case by the Hse last year. She is about to announce draconian cuts in payments to pharmacies in the next few days. This will lead to closures in Community Pharmacies and lay-offs in the ones that survive. The largest overhead in any community pharmacy is the salary of a pharmacist and so this will be the first cost to be tackled. Pharmacies employing two pharmacists will reduce to one pharmacist and a technician ( lower salary cost), and all employee pharmacists will suffer pay cuts. This is happening already. Two yrs ago an Irish graduating pharmacist could expect a salary of around 80,000 a year , the current market rate is already down to 50,000 a year. This is a result of the extra two schools of pharmacies coming on-stream and also a large increase of non-national pharmacists immigrating here and being willing to work for much lower salaries.In four years time , you can expect the landscape for employee pharmacists to have vastly changed form the situation over the last few years....for the first time there is unemployment among pharmacists and this is set to increase steadingly over the foreseeable future driving salaries and working conditions downwards . There is currently a public sector freeze also , so the liklihood of employment in a hospital is extremely limited. Current final year students are having trouble finding pre-reg placements due to increased student numbers and a decrease of pharmacies willing to take them on due to decreased payments on communtiy drug schemes. I would anticipate in the future , students will have to work for no salary at all in their pre-reg year. .....By the way , I have owned a community pharmacy for the last few years. .........my advice ...do medicine...you'll get a place in the UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    ccmac98 wrote: »
    .....By the way , I have owned a community pharmacy for the last few years. .........




    can i have a pre reg place?

    i only need 6 months


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭yay_for_summer


    JSK 252 wrote: »
    Good man, thanks a lot. How many people were in first year this year if you dont mind me asking?

    I think about 60, maybe a few less.


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