What I Wish I Knew Before Starting Pharmacy School (UK MPharm)
I'm going into my third year of MPharm and there's one thing I really wish someone had told me before I started pharmacy school. It isn't the science degree you think it is.
So here's what happened. Someone about to start their first year asked me the questions I used to ask, and I realised nobody ever corrected the way I was thinking about this degree. I had to collide with it myself over two years. This video is the picture I wish someone had drawn for me before I walked in.
I go into what pharmacy school is actually training you to become, and the three things I'd genuinely do differently from week one. Not study tips. The mental shift no one warns you about.
This is the first in a series on what MPharm is really like from the inside. The science of learning it and the lived experience of surviving it.
If you're starting this year, I'm making more of these as I go into third year. That's the channel.
Time stamps
0:00 Introduction to the mental shift
1:05 Pharmacy school as "judgment training"
2:10 How to train your clinical judgment
2:39 The problem with "undifferentiated volume"
3:31 Differentiating what to memorise vs. what to look up
4:21 The importance of being wrong
5:47 Final advice on choosing a study system
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