After six long, miserable years at pharmacy school, I am required to take a New York State Law Exam (MPJE) and the NAPLEX to determine if I really am qualified to give out pills to people like your aging, wrinkly, diabetic mother. I just finished both of these exams a couple of weeks ago and [...]

No I didn’t get a dialysis treatment, but I got close! Currently, as part of the last five weeks of my pharmacy education, I am spending some time at a dialysis center. Patients get brought in on three 4hr shifts during the day and are subsequently hooked up to friendly looking robot called the BBRAUN [...]

Yesterday marked the completion of Day 2 of my New York State Wet Lab experience. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown all the way up until the exam. I checked my admission ticket at least 97 times and checked and re-checked my weights, calculator, pencils, and pens every five minutes until they [...]

Today I took the first part of the New York State Part III licensure examination (sometimes called the wet lab). There are two parts to the exam – the first is a written portion and the second is a live session where proctors from the NYS board of pharmacy come and watch you make three [...]