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By: madison

madison — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:38:45 +0000

Yes, Lea is right. It depends on the particular school. It helps if you're going to a prestigious, well-known school AND have a high GPA. But if you go to a less well-known university but have higher GPA, then it looks better on you. After all, GPA is one of the biggest factors determining whether you will get the interview or not aside from letters of recommendation, personal statement, pharmacy experience, extracurricular activities, etc.

However, the bottom line is if you have a 2.9-3.0 GPA from Stanford and another student has a 3.6 from a calstate or whatever school, then the person with 3.6 will have a better GPA than you according to the pharmcas calculation. So, don't let your gpa down ever no matter which school you go to.

By: i_left_my_mind_with_the_baby

i_left_my_mind_with_the_baby — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:01:48 +0000

Most likely you will assigned to the insurance company "pharmacy help desk".
Your duties would include resolving problems.
During the prescription online adjudication process claims are sometimes rejected by the insurance company.
The pharmacy employee calls the insurance company "pharmacy help desk" to resolve rejections.
Some common reasons for rejection that have to be resolved:
NDC not covered
Refills not covered
Too soon to refill
Patient not covered
Invalid person code
Insurance company computer unavailable for claim processing.

By: Yuba City Honker

Yuba City Honker — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:16:19 +0000

University of the Philippines-Diliman
http://www.upd.edu.ph

University of Santo Tomas
http://www.ust.edu.ph

Centro Escolar University
http://www.ceu.edu.ph

By: llll s

llll s — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:53:09 +0000

You need to take a Pharmacy Technician course.These courses are offered in school or online.Penn Foster is a good school.They will work out whatever payment plan you need even if it's only 20 dollars a month and you can get started as soon as you send your first payment.The course runs about 800-900 dollars usually but at certain times of the year they discount the course to 537 dollars.There's no difference between an assistant and a technician but you are more likely to be hired if you are certified.Penn Foster does not offer the certification exam but they will pay for it where ever you choose to take it-it's included in your price!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:02:37 +0000

No, it won't matter where you went to school.

As long as you graduate, you'll get a job.

By: JamesT

JamesT — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:28:59 +0000

Nope not Walmart! I will give you my findings on shopping around for the medication that I take. I compared then all with the same generic drug and amount. Here is what I found.
Walgreen's – 135.46
Walmart – 101.79
Safeway – 145.30
CVS – 130.29
COSTCO – 45.01

Clearly Costco was the cheapest for the drug I was looking for. I just wonder why all the others are screwing us all. Hope this helps.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:32:13 +0000

He could do 2 options:
1. Volunteer: This can be done by calling a pharmacy; perferably not one that is a walgreens or CVS because they are a company and customer service base and you would be considered in the way. That would leave private pharmacies or hospital pharmacies to volunteer at. Hospitals are the best because they take volunteers, just remind them that he perfers to be in the pharmacy area. If he gets certified or licensed and volunteer, then he could possibly do more like count the pills out etc…

2. Get certified/licensed: Two ways to do this
a. He takes a pharmacy technician class and they will pay for him to be come certified and licensed but it costs money and not to mention to much time, which assuming your husband doesn't have.
b. He can go to the certified pharmacy technican board or ptcb.org and pay a fee (depending on your state) then take a pharmacy technician exam. If he passes, he get certified which is one way (again, depending on your state) that can lead to applying for a pharmacy technican license which will surely lead to a job.

*If he volunteers while getting certified/licensed (he will need to be licensed from his state's board of pharmacy when he gets into pharmacy school anyway, so why not get it now) then when he does get certified/licensed plus the experience from the volunteer work will lead to a job and hopefully acceptance to pharmacy school

By: melanie

melanie — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:14:13 +0000

Hell yeha dude!!!!! im a 1st year Pharm.D. student here in LA, but ive had a passion for pharmacy since high school as well!!!
go to rxist.com or drugs.com and get the top 1,2,300 trade/generic names, and then the drugs indication/s(what its used for) and rip thru em!
know every brand and generic name for every drug, then learn what they're for, THEN learn each ones drug-drug interaction, AND THENNN learn drug-FOOD interactions. as soon as you think youve learned everything (btw, the above wil probably take a few years)
as soon as you graduate, go to Tech school and get a tech license, join ASHP (american society of health system pharmacists), and make some friends at your pharmacy school of choice.

By: Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:48:05 +0000

for me, the obvious* course is take the AP class for university credit; you get credit for highschool AND potential credit for college.

it would also be nice to take the anatomy class; if you haven't already been exposed to medical/scientific terminology this would be a good introductory course since in the future you will be taking human anatomy and physiology.