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I'm wondering if anyone who has taken pharmacology could give me their opinion...

At my school, we can take pharmacology online for 15 weeks, or as a 1/2 semester lecture class for 7 weeks. The class is one credit, and "part 2" is the next semester, but I do hear it is a lot of work.

I enrolled in the online class, figuring it would give me more time to work with the material instead of cramming it in 1/2 the time, but now I'm second-guessing myself.

Is this the kind of class you should attend a lecture, or is self-study the way to go?

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

My school does the same thing for Pharmacology so I decided to take a (non-required) Pharm course during Summer I to help me out for first semester in the Fall. I took the class online...and I don't feel that I learned much at all, even though I finished with an A. If you can manage it, I would say the lecture style would help you learn the material better. Either way, I guess any additional knowledge will only help, right!

Good luck.

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Specializes in Urgent Care.

I took it online, and had no problem. it is alot of memorization. For this specific class, i did fine without lecture.

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Is this the kind of class you should attend a lecture, or is self-study the way to go?

I took an online pharm class and can admit that I didn't learn much (but I got an A, the quizzes and exams were all open book.). It's a lot of self-studing. And, realistically, how much can you learn about every medication out there? I tried to learn as much as I could about the different classes of meds but didn't pay as much attention to the individual meds. My teacher stressed that learning the classes was very important.

I only volunteer in the medical field right now so I don't know for sure, but I think there are pharm books at every nurses station in case you need to look up a med.

If I had the time I would have taken a lecture-style course (I learn a lot more from that format).

It's all about your individual learning style, though. If you really want to learn the material go for the lecture course.

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Thank you all for your input! I still don't know what to do, but I have time to think about it. The online class is almost filled, but there is still room left in the lecture classes.

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Hi Everyone I was wondering if you all took the Pharmacology course at MCC (Macomb Community College).

Jaslene

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Hi Everyone I was wondering if you all took the Pharmacology course at MCC (Macomb Community College).

Jaslene

No, actually I took it at Schoolcraft. And I am done with that!

I ended up taking both classes online, but did not like it. I wanted to take the second one with lecture, but it conflicted with my clinicals. I did fine, but it was a lot of work for a 1 credit class - and I know a few people failed it and got kicked out of the program, too.

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Hi PUG,

I was wondering which online pharmacology class you took.

I warn other however, not to take the self-paced course at Indiana university, not only because it is expensive, but the instructor for the course doesn't seem to help at all when you email them. . .

I was thinking of Barstow college. Anyone ever heard about it?

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Hi Everyone I was wondering if you all took the Pharmacology course at MCC (Macomb Community College).

Jaslene

I wasn't aware that there are any pharmacology courses at Macomb?

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