Your Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relates to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. The personal essay is an important part of your application for admission and provides you with an opportunity for you to clearly and effectively express your ideas.
Do not personalize your essay for a particular pharmacy degree institution. You cannot make any edits to your Personal Essay after you have e-submitted your completed application to PharmCAS.
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Each pharmacy school reserves the right to require additional essay responses as part of the supplemental application process. Please be aware that your admission essay will undergo a textual similarity review with iThenticate/Turnitin for Admissions for the detection of plagiarism and other potential violations of the applicant code of conduct. All submitted essays and other materials will be included as source documents in the iThenticate/Turnitin for Admissions reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such documents.
My life experiences:
My grandma and my mom both have several health issues such as dementia and vision problems, however, I learned to be patient with them and give them the right medication at the right time of the day and some medication upon need only. As I have learned how not having the even one of the tablets can have dramatic effect on their well-being. Furthermore, my mom is a stubborn woman who doesn’t believe in some of her medicines and I have learned to make them into powder and mix them in her food or juice.
A pharmacy is a place that many times people visit when they are not feeling well and this can make them angry and impatient at times. Therefore, a pharmacist job is more critical than just handing some medications to the patient. A good pharmacist needs to listen patiently and care deeply and consult the patients and give them the right direction in order to make sure that the patients are safe and the medications are benefiting them.
