Internship or Internment ??? 

 PharmD Internships without stipend Bad for Students, Bad for hospitals, Bad for Society .Medical,Dental,Ay urv edic,Homoeopathy ,Phy siotherapy ,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 y ear.Don’t y ou think it’s like"rubbing salt in the wound" to ask students to pay to during the internships. College managements are collecting huge amounts in the name of donations,hospital fee,etc at the time of admissions but they failed to prov ide any Campus placement opportunities for PharmDs before they complete their education. This could be considered as serv ice because sufficient training has already been prov ided to the PharmD students during the curriculum, especially in the 5th y ear, where along with regular subjects we also do clerkship and project work. PharmD students will be mostly rendering serv ice 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 v alue what they pay for. When hospitals hav e a financial inv estment in someone, they are more inclined to gain a full return on that inv estment.Hospitals hav e no real interest in an interns personal or professional dev elopment. But if they pay for that intern, they do.Any thing giv en free is not considered v aluable so if PharmDs are giv en stipend,hospitals will try to utilize our serv ices to full ex tent.Students,Hospitals and patients will be benifited with the prov ision of stipend to PharmD students.Students will be able to dev elop skills and ex perience and patients will be satisfied with improv ed quality of health serv ices prov ided to them. If students are not prov ided stipend it dev alues the profession & actual work being done, lowering pay /salaries for pharmacists .There will be obv ious compromise in patient counseling, promotion of rational drug use, drug information serv ices, pharmaceutical care, adv erse drug reaction reporting, therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmaco-epideomology which are salient ingredients of professionalism ex pected because priv ate profiteers would nev er engage enough hands to cater for these interests.

 

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