Personal statement for pharmacy

Paragraph 1: why you want to study pharmacy

What is it that you know/have seen about pharmacy that makes you want to study it Because ive seen x or know Y about pharmacy, it appeals to me due to my whatever nature

What do you like about pharmacy – this is going to be based on what you’ve seen and what you’ve read/experienced

 

Paragraph 2 and 3: main body of your essay

What is good about you that means you could/should study pharmacy

  1. Situation in which you either developed a skill, or used and refined a skill you already had
  2. What is the skill
  3. Why is that skill important for pharmacy – because pharmacists need to do x y and z
    1. OR, why is that skill important for being a pharmacy study in university

Paragraph 4: a little bit about extra curricular and then conclude:

Even link extra curriculars back to pharmacy and what skills they’ve given you à these are skills mostly that will help you in university as a student e.g. time management (like balancing studying with doing a sport)

 

General:

NEVER write something unless you’re saying why its good for pharmacy and HOW you got/developed that skill

 

Main skills to talk about:

Team work (think of a situation where you’ve had to work in a team, why that helped you develop teamwork skills, e.g. there was a dispute, then why that helps you to be a good student/phrmacist0

Communication same again – something about why you’d be good communicating with the public, then with other professionals

Working under pressure – both time pressure and adacemic pressure. This is you basically showing them a situation where you’ve done work in a short amount of time and met a deadline and then relate it to working in high pressure situations both at work and as a student