Well with all the competition nowadays nobody really looks at forecast results anymore unless they are lack in students. AAA is actually not quite great anymore since so many people are getting straight As as well so it's not a surprise there. :/

This post has been edited by zstan: Jun 14 2013, 06:55 AM

lol how is this unfair? it's just business and security. why take up students with forecast results when there are already students with full results. nothing wrong with a gap year though if you really want to enter a good uni. i did that last time

What's wrong with that? You'd probably look more mature and Give your patients more confidence in you rather looking like some fresh kid.

You are not alone

If you a're talking about better in terms of rankings Queensland would be thr best. Otherwise you can consider which place suits you better. UK does ooffer you more opportunities to go to more countries to travel though.

Read first page. Ptptn is easiest to get. 80k in total.

Lol. If your aim is to make big bucks within 5 years after graduation then pharmacy is probably the wrong course for you

Whats wrong with getting a house after 30 anyway? Dont have to follow the trend and craze of the society.

Been there done that, survived first year pretty well. Never self studied and intern at pharmacy.

Pharmacy never had prescription rights in the first place. We are fighting for dispensing rights. Doctors earn more because their education fees are so bloody expensive. And it's not like they earn more as a fresh grad compared to a pharmacist.

This post has been edited by zstan: Jun 15 2013, 02:05 PM

not necessary if you are just involved with manufacturing in pharmaceuticals or doing research. not much social skills is required there.

communication skills =/= social skills. in my opinion

the half the year wait will be worth it.

well, let's just say you only pay about 20k more to get a degree which is recognised throughout the whole pharmacy world.

did you take Biology in SPM?

This post has been edited by zstan: Jun 24 2013, 10:08 AM

dunno yet. first batch just out.

personally i think an aircond filter should the job. if you have extra money then go ahead. don't think it will increase your health at significant levels though.

they changed the requirements already lately.

http://www.pharm.monash.edu.my/future-stud...quirements.html

previously i have also added the requirements to page 1.

you can get registered. the first batch have already started working.

This post has been edited by zstan: Jun 24 2013, 02:41 PM

erm i don't have any pill counting classes if that's what you mean. but in the hospital settings some pills are individually counted but most pills/tablets nowadays comes in packs of 10s, but yeah, manual counting most of the time. its financially infeasible to place one tablet counting machine in every single pharmacy.

sorry to hear about your predicament hopefully you can get things sorted out.

Like what Farmer_C mentioned, if you are talking about drugs alone then yes, pharmacists are more trained in the aspects compared to the general physicians. but we wouldn't know how to diagnose as much.

Technically, in terms of clinical knowledge, pharmacy assistants (let's call them PA for short) can rival a pharmacist any day as long as he/she really puts in hard work. however there are some areas that PA fall short off. Firstly, is their official recognition by law. The most obvious difference is that PAs cannot dispense psychotropic drugs as well as many other controlled drugs, despite knowing how they work and act. They might not be trained to monitor drugs which have narrow therapeutic index. Actually they may not be trained in many stuff since their whole course only lasts for 3 years.

to put it in a blunt way they are more capable in doing all the 'easy' jobs that pharmacist used to do and are slowly taking over while pharmacist moves on to more 'sophisticated' jobs like patient counselling and other stuff.

nope. you can't do much without being registered. errr the difference is if you are not registered you cannot consider yourself a pharmacist. you must get registered.

Monash has obtained pre-accreditation now so the students are allowed to work. you don't have to be fully registered to work as a pharmacist. you start off as a pre-registered pharmacist. after passing the requirements then only you get registered.

IMU is much more established than Segi. Other than that it's really hard to compare objectively unless someone has studied at both places. you should visit both campuses and see for yourself personally.

no to heroin we don't have that kind of treatment but we use methadone instead.

well in my opinion, there should be no problem in the treatment but it is the safety of storing the drug which will be the main issue here. how confident are you that your pharmacy/hospital would not have break ins should you have 1kg of these stuff at the back of the store?

the absorption rates should generally be the same. bioavailability is directly related to the amount of metabolism (or number of metabolising enzymes) someone has. you cannot really calculate exact bioavailability but you can compare it the bioavailability of paracetamol administered via IV (can assume no metabolism of drugs) and graphs of previous studies.

in a nutshell a dose is calculated based on the concentration that we want in blood and the volume of distribution.

age is important as toddlers tend to have less enzymes developed (especially newborns) and elderly have lesser liver function. weight is also in calculating the distribution of the drugs around the body. so both are important factors.


tried to put this into layman language hopefully you can understand.

errr you have to be more specific with the types of arrhythmia as there are many types of them out there. and the earlier you detect it the better chance that you have to cure it.

so that you can finish your 2nd year by july to board the plane to Strathclyde before September

This post has been edited by zstan: Jul 27 2013, 11:06 AM