About to give up Waterloo pharmacy (CAP) admission offer
Got offer in Queens Health Sci and Waterloo CAP… my concerns include:
- low pay rate and high stress as a pharmacist,
- easy license access by foreign grads converting their foreign license, thus flooding the market,
- Shoppers and Costco making oligopolies and low pay offers, eliminating independent neighborhood retail pharmacies
- difficult GPA in PharmD training, making medical school or dental school application later difficult
- uncertainty of AI taking over medication verification and drug interaction advisory, making human pharmacist obsolete
- standing full time behind a windowless counter
It was not an easy Waterloo application going through with Casper and interview. It also required / expected pharmacy volunteer hours. But I don’t think those abovementioned concerns will make me happy in taking PharmD training.
I am thinking to go for QHS instead and aim for medical school or dental school. This is a trade of almost-guaranteed spot for PharmD in exchange for an uncertain chance in medicine.
If you don’t think it’s a good idea to give up PharmD, please help to convince me. Thank you.