Pharmacy

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Pharmacy
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Outline

• Pharmacy pharmacists responsibilities
• Career financial opportunities
• Studying pharmacy
• Student life
• Admissions to Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
• Q A

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What is pharmacy

• Health care profession
• Specializes in the management of patients drug
  therapy

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Responsibilities

• Patients health
• Effective appropriate drug therapy
• Team work with other health care professionals

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Career opportunities

• Community
• Hospital
• Industry
• Academia
• Research
• Government
• Other health care professions

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• Starting salary 60-70K
• Community vs. hospital pharmacy
• Toronto vs. other locations

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Becoming a pharmacist

• 4 year B.Sc.Phm degree
• Pharmacy Examining Board licensing exam
• Pharmacy jurisprudence exam
• Internship or Residency

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The Curriculum

• I hate Chemistry!!!
• Pharmacy vs. Pharmacology Pharmaceutics
• Therapeutics, problem solving practical
  rotations

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Typical schedule
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Outside the classroom
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Admissions to the Faculty

• Second entry undergraduate program
• Minimum 1 year undergraduate studies
• Academic and non-academic requirements
• Yearly applicants and accepted

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Academic

• Minimum GPA
• Cut-off 65
• Entrance average 75 - 80
• Pre-requisites
• English - Highschool (ENG4U) OR University
• Physics - Highschool (SPH4U) OR University
• Biology - University
• Chemistry - University
• Calculus - University
• Humanities (2) - Highschool AND/OR University

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Non-Academic

• UTPAT
• U of T Pharmacy Admissions Test

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What should you do now?

• Check the pre-requisites
• Study hard!
• Ask questions!

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Getting in touch

• joan.lee_at_utoronto.ca
• Undergraduate Pharmacy Society
• www.utups.ca
• Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
• www.utoronto.ca/pharmacy/

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• A discovery occurs
• when an accident meets a prepared mind

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GOOD LUCK!!!