PharmD Internships without stipend Bad for Students, Bad for hospitals, Bad
for
Society.Medical,Dental,Ayurvedic,Homoeopathy,Physiotherapy,Veterinary,Nursing
interns get stipend why not we ???
PharmD students are made to pay fee to college during internship,there will not be any lessons or tutorials and most of the students will not be using the college facilities at all. So why do we still need to pay college fee for that particular year.Don’t you think it’s like"rubbing salt in the wound" to ask students to pay to during the internships.
PharmD students are made to pay fee to college during internship,there will not be any lessons or tutorials and most of the students will not be using the college facilities at all. So why do we still need to pay college fee for that particular year.Don’t you think it’s like"rubbing salt in the wound" to ask students to pay to during the internships.
This could be considered as service because
sufficient training has already been provided to the PharmD students during the
curriculum, especially in the 5th year, where along with regular subjects we
also do clerkship and project work. PharmD students will be mostly rendering
service in the hospital during their internship. On the one hand we may learn a
lot - no doubt- but on the other hand it does not support the idea of
social equality.
In economics, people value what they pay for.
When hospitals have a financial investment in someone, they are more
inclined to gain a full return on that investment.Hospitals have no real
interest in an interns personal or professional development. But if they pay
for that intern, they do.Anything given free is not considered valuable so if PharmDs
are given stipend,hospitals will try to utilize our services to full
extent.Students,Hospitals and patients will be benifited with the provision of
stipend to PharmD students.Students will be able to develop skills and
experience and patients will be satisfied with improved quality of health
services provided to them.
If students are not
provided stipend it devalues the profession & actual work being done, lowering
pay/salaries for pharmacists .There will be obvious compromise in patient
counseling, promotion of rational drug use, drug information services,
pharmaceutical care, adverse drug reaction reporting, therapeutic drug
monitoring and pharmaco-epideomology which are salient ingredients of
professionalism expected because private profiteers would never engage enough
hands to cater for these interests.
Therefore, a recommendation of residential
internship with stipend (like other professions) by the concerned authorities
will tremendously motivate our students and also help the profession to be
viewed from a better perspective.Hope this decision would improve
motivation, working conditions and education services available for Pharmd
students in the country.
Tell us your sugesstions -- and your
opinions -- about interning for no stipend and paying fee during internship.
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