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How to go about becoming a pharmacist?

• I am about to enroll into a community college and I'm wondering if entering a pharmacy tech program will help, as the college said it Will but they were using words like: "feel" "meet pharmacist" "hands on." They made it sound like the aim was solely to become a tech. But I don't, my original plan was to Get pre pharmacy classes out of the way (will becoming a pham tech do this) in the first two years and transfer to university then enter pharmacy school and then go into specialty. Would becoming a tech slow the process down or help? The college name is Everest btw. I'm in Chicago

• Answer:

  If you want to get your PharmD. degree, you have no business being associated with for-profit tech schools like Everest. Being a Pharm Tech will not help you get to your pharmacy career in any way. Just like a nurse can never 'work their way up' into being a doctor, a pharm tech can never work their way up into being a Pharm.D In order to be a pharmacist, you can start off in community college for a year and take classes that any biology or chemistry major will take. Then, transfer to a university where you can transfer all your credits to their pre-Pharm program. Then, your senior year of college, take the PCAT test and apply to pharmacy school. Then, you go to 4 years of pharmacy school. Pharmacists have to take all the advance chemistry, calculus, and biology classes that a Pharm tech will never know even existed. I'd suggest that you look into small, regional campuses of major universities instead of a separate tech school so that you are sure that your credits will transfer. This will offer tuition savings and less hassle.