Pharmacy students angry to find their degrees worthless.

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:07 pm

Prescription for anger
Thu, 25 August 2016
Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro

Students who claim they were led to believe a local university’s associate’s degree in pharmacology gave them the right to open their own drugstores have received a rude awakening from the Ministry of Health.

Responding to a complaint the students posted on Prime Minister HE’s Facebook page, the ministry on Tuesday said Cambodian regulations are clear in demanding a bachelor’s degree to operate a pharmacy. Membership in the Kingdom’s pharmacist association, another requirement, also requires a bachelor’s certificate.

“The associate degree of pharmacy at International University does not comply with the technical requirement of the Ministry of Health,” the response reads. But that response doesn’t jibe with what students claim they were told by Phnom Penh-based International University.

Ly Kim Im, 23, said she had spent about $7,000 obtaining her associate degree after being told she would be able to open her own pharmacy. “The school told us that if we studied for an associate of pharmacy degree for three years, we would be able to open a pharmacy,” she said. “But it’s not true; we hope the school can provide us a proper solution.”...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/p ... tion-anger

mammothboy2 · Post by **mammothboy2** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:43 pm

One sympathises - $7,000 and 3 years for a worthless certificate - but an obvious point to make is that Cambodia is - if anything - ludicrously
oversupplied with pharmacies

bolueeleh · Post by **bolueeleh** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 7:07 pm

Open a pharmacy, stock up on all kind of meds, 6months later all expired, starts selling expired meds

Bitte_Kein_Lexus · Post by **Bitte_Kein_Lexus** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 7:13 pm

I strongly suspect the powers that be don't like whoever owns that place. I know a medical student there who is in a similar situation. She does say that the place doesn't provide a very good education... Still, if the university doesn't give out real degrees or meet the requirements of the relevant ministries, shouldn't the government shut it down instead of letting it take money from students?

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 7:59 pm

Those passing can jump straight into the third year of a recognised bachelor’s program in pharmacology, while those failing can enter as second-year students.

Do I understand correctly that a registered pharmacist in Cambodia only needs a 3 year bachelor degree to run a pharmacy ?

bolueeleh · Post by **bolueeleh** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:43 pm

Misplaced trust in the khmer system, im sure if I wanted to I can easily use someone else name to open a pharmacy

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:49 pm

i am amazed that there is any kind of requirement at all to run a pharmacy seeing that there is only a very limited scheduling of drugs

Luigi · Post by **Luigi** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 6:01 am

mammothboy2 wrote:One sympathises - $7,000 and 3 years for a worthless certificate - but an obvious point to make is that Cambodia is - if anything - ludicrously
oversupplied with pharmacies

For another $23,000.00 they could have had a Trump Real-estate Degree.

Another obvious point is nearly everything that can be scammed will happen in Scambodia. No mercy.

markd · Post by **markd** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:12 pm

an associate degree is a partial degree not a bachelor degree.

Post by **Username Taken** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:51 pm

They obviously didn't do their homework (re: prerequisites for opening a pharmacy).

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