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Hi guys, I'm Favor and I'm live in the
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University of Nigeria Usuka campus.
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Today we'll be asking different students
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about their different course of study.
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Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Please
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what's your name? Okay. My name is
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Chidra Nancy. Okay. Hello Nancy. Please
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tell us about your course of study.
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Okay. I'm studying pharmacy of Nigera.
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So pharmacy is a study of drugs not just
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drugs what the drug does to the body and
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what the body does to drug and at the
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same time prescriptions and guiding
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patients in proper use of those drugs.
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So that's what pharmacy briefly is
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Okay. So how many years does this course
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run for? Okay course runs for 6 years.
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This this particular course that is the
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doctor of pharmacy degree runs for 6
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years unlike the bachelor of pharmacy
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degree which is 5 years.
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Okay. So I've heard a lot about this
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doctor of pharmacy degree and how it's
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different from the bachelor of pharmacy
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degree. Please can you tell us a little
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bit more about that? Okay. The doctor of
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pharmacy degree is different from the
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bachelor of pharmacy degree because the
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doctor of pharmacy degree with the name
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doctor of pharmacy. It's more clinically
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oriented than the bachelor of pharmacy.
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Clinical oriented that means we deal
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more with patient centered outcomes. We
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deal more with patients directly. So
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that's just like the the curriculum that
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is the difference. So difference is also
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seen in the workload the practice
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because now we have in the sixth year
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that is the first the year added to the
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5 years is clinically oriented like we
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actually do clinical rotations ward
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rounds with doctors and other health
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professionals. So you can see that is
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more clinically oriented than machy.
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Okay that's that's really nice. That's
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really nice. So um do you think somebody
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that has very limited knowledge of this
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course of study say somebody that just
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finished secondary school and wants to
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you know go into university do you think
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somebody like that can actually you know
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go for this course? Now it depends on
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the person's goals. The person wants to
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go for a course. Not all schools are
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actually have this doctor of pharmacy.
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That is another thing. So if the person
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wants to study doctor of pharmacy and
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not just bachelor of pharmacy person
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wants to get the degree of doctor of
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pharmacy and not bachelor of pharmacy
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person has to check this school I want
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to go into is it going to give me doctor
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of pharmacy degree or is it bachelor of
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pharmacy is going to give so those are
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the things I think you should check and
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depends on you as a person but I would
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recommend doctor of pharmacy degree
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because doctor of pharmacy degree is
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clinically oriented like I said and in
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the hospital setting especially if the
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person wants to work in the hospital
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setting it the levels to levels that the
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person or holding a doctor of pharmacy
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degree is a bit higher because a person
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has more knowledge of the hospital
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setting than the bachelor of pharmacy.
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Okay. That's that's that's very nice. So
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they should be aspiring to go for a
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All right. Can you just a little bit can
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you tell us you know what your
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day-to-day life as a student looks like?
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Right. As a pharmacy student what your
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day-to-day life looks like. ary pharmacy
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as a doctor of pharmacy student.
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Okay. Well, based on union no uh our
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timets are structured in a way that it's
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the same all around but slight
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differences. So, as a fifth year
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pharmacy student, a fifth year doctor of
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pharmacy student, my day is classes from
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8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Sometimes it
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spans to 1:00 p.m. But most times 8:00
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a.m. to 11 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. to like
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2 or otherwise we have practicals. So
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fifth year we have few practicals but as
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a fifth year pharmacy we have clerkship
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attached to it. The clerkship is like is
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lab simulation of the hospital setting.
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Not just center we also have the
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committee pharmacy setting and other
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things. So we do a simulation lab of how
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it looks like in real in real life. So
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that's how it is for me. So after that
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we have most times it's 8 to 5. So we
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have classes from 8:00 to 11:00. Then 11
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to 5 comprises of practicals or
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clerkship or rotation. So that's how it
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is. So it spans from 8 to 5 p.m. So
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Okay. So Cher can you give you know
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advice to somebody that is aspiring to
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study pharmacy somebody that has just
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written jam and maybe had put in for
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pharmacy in maybe UNN or any other
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school can you give you know advice you
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know based on your experiences so far in
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okay um I'm going to give both an
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academic advice and a personal
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development advice so academically I
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would say as a first year student you
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should start getting serious with your
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academics cuz one of the lies told to
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freshers is that your first year you
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should relax but this is the advice I'm
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giving for your first year be serious
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you can mix it up but make sure your
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academics you're taking it serious
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because most times right now it's my
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first year CGPA that is like holding up
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the other ones like if if I didn't do
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very well my first year I'll be having
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issues staying on my first class right
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now so the first thing is from your
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first year take life serious also add
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few things but take it serious then
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don't just come to school to do the
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whole academic stuff also add personal
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development character development skill
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development just just those just little
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things so that's the advice I will give
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thank you so much and we wish you well
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in your academic pursuit thank you very
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much thank Thank you.
