Recent content by 297point1

It's not. But UNE has little interest in shuttering their program unless Husson closes theirs first; there is pride at stake in the Pine Tree State. When both programs announced plans to open the same year, the folks at UNE (who did announce first) were running their mouths about their beliefs...

What is interesting to me is that USNWR used to list all of the schools with ratings below 2.0 as unranked and not show the actual scores. Now they do...and we can all see what school came in dead last.

"Merging" with another school will cause a reputation to take a hit. And reputation is the only thing being measured here, so...

One thing that changed starting two years ago was that a school's pass rate published in year X was no longer static and now subject to change with every release of data each February. Example: previously, a student who graduated in late 2020 and didn't take the NAPLEX until 2021 wouldn't...

No, it is not. The average debt load for a graduate from the program where I used to work was $190k, and the median was quite a bit higher. Debt loads in the 300's were common, and one of the last exit interviews I performed was a poor bloke graduating with $560k in loans.

This is a well written, well researched article; better than nearly all which have attempted to address the issues in chain community pharmacy. Thank you USA Today. Will it actually lead to meaningful change? Not soon enough. But if enough high school and college students see this, it might...

Florida Man never ceases to act like Florida Man.

Pharmacists are getting mentioned in pop culture again? I thought that started and ended with Mort Goldman on Family Guy. I'll submit... Not a pharmacy song per se, but hearing a young Dave Grohl belt out "Ritalin is easy, Ritalin is good" puts me in a happy mood.

All of this could have been avoided if a simple "friendly reminder" email had been sent to you a few days before the deadline. Heck, it need not even be friendly. Just remind them; it takes a lot less time and energy to send a reminder than it takes to fail someone for a policy violation. Some...

As someone who sat across the table from these individuals at Academic Progress Committee hearings for a decade, I know the answer: Irrational confidence. In their minds: No knowledge deficit can't be overcome. No bombed exam score is too profound. The exam score did not adequately assess...

Yes. PCAT is being sunset in a few months; no more PCATs will be administered starting in the 2023-2024 admissions cycle. So few students were taking it (because so few schools were requiring it) that Pearson Corp is dropping it from their test offerings.

You have no idea how right you are; this scenario is playing out in at least five geographic markets right now where there are two (or more) private programs each waiting for their competition to close.

National first time pass rate for 2022: 79.6% Down another ~4% from last year. Schools have received their program-specific performance results. Good gravy...those admissions decisions during the 2017-2018 cycle don't look so hot now. And it is going to get worse before it gets better.

I would give these results more credence if each category listed the number of respondents. As the pharmacy owner line shows the same value for the low end and the high end of the range, it feels like that category has n=1 for respondents. Nonetheless, it is useful; I thought I was making bank...

Nothing I have ever done for a job has fallen under the pharmacy practice act of whatever state I've lived in. At this point the license is a security blanket more than anything else - perhaps the next job will require me to be licensed. I keep one license - from a state where I lived three...