As we make our way to the Dublin Castle by foot, I rediscovered things that I have noticed before, which are pharmacies here. I want to become a pharmacist or so called "chemist," in Ireland, and I am actually starting pharmacy school at University of Iowa starting this August. Therefore, I was interested in how the pharmacy schools and drug stores work here now that I visited Trinity College Dublin. I am from Korea, and Korea and the U.S.A. are different in that in Korea, you apply and go to pharmacy school but you end up getting a bachelor’s degree, versus in the U.S. you take pre-requisite courses and once you get into and start pharmacy school, after four years of education, you get a doctor of pharmacy. Also, in Korea, pharmacies are privately owned and separated in that they are not chains. However, in the U.S. I noticed that most pharmacies are chains, such as Walgreens and Rite Aid.
In Ireland, there are three pharmacy schools, which are in Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, and University College Cork. All three schools' pharmacy programs have the same system, which is that a student who wishes to become a pharmacist will complete a four-year program in undergraduate. So you would get a bachelor's degree in pharmacy. After that, you will do a practical training with a tutor, then you will have to pass Society's Licence Examination. Also, one thing that's different from the U.S. is the name for each grade. Instead of calling it freshman year, sophomore year, junior year, and senior year, it goes junior freshman year, senior freshman year, junior sophister year, and senior sophister year.
As I was researching more about pharmacy school, I found an interesting term used to describe a student, which was a "mature" student. A student is considered a mature student if he or she is over 23 years old. This makes me think that maybe it's uncommon to have older students in Ireland. As a student at University of Colorado Denver, I see and run into lots and lots of older students whose age can go up to 40 or even more who have already started family. I wonder how Irish people think about this matter?
https://pharmacy.tcd.ie/info/becomeapharmacist.php
In Ireland, there are three pharmacy schools, which are in Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, and University College Cork. All three schools' pharmacy programs have the same system, which is that a student who wishes to become a pharmacist will complete a four-year program in undergraduate. So you would get a bachelor's degree in pharmacy. After that, you will do a practical training with a tutor, then you will have to pass Society's Licence Examination. Also, one thing that's different from the U.S. is the name for each grade. Instead of calling it freshman year, sophomore year, junior year, and senior year, it goes junior freshman year, senior freshman year, junior sophister year, and senior sophister year.
As I was researching more about pharmacy school, I found an interesting term used to describe a student, which was a "mature" student. A student is considered a mature student if he or she is over 23 years old. This makes me think that maybe it's uncommon to have older students in Ireland. As a student at University of Colorado Denver, I see and run into lots and lots of older students whose age can go up to 40 or even more who have already started family. I wonder how Irish people think about this matter?
https://pharmacy.tcd.ie/info/becomeapharmacist.php