What's Wrong with the Rutgers Fellowship?

In the past, Rutgers was a fantastic program that produced quality industry professionals. Today, Rutgers Fellowship programs functions as a postdoctoral greek organization allowing "business wunderkinds" to "work hard, play hard".

  1. Quality of candidates has declined sharply over the last two years. Rutgers is 100+ individuals. As others stated in here, some are good and some are bad. But with the size increase in recent years, the quality of the candidates regressed to the mean. And the mean in the world of pharmacy is close to shit (see DonTheWhale's argument). Rutgers had the ability to take the top 30 or so PharmD graduating the US when they had a monopoly on industry fellowships. That is no longer the case. Lots of new and smaller fellowship programs opened up increasing opportunities for talented individuals. These talented individuals went to programs that offered better training while weaker candidates went to RPIF for the aura of what it used to be. It is still Rutgers the state school in NJ at the end of the day.

  2. Curriculum is nonsense. Do you think Professional Development Days do anything? I sat through a presentation of marijuana. What the fuck. I have a PharmD and I have to attend class and listen to shit presentations and stare at shit slides using shit powerpoint clipart and shit

  3. Take a careful look at the program descriptions before you apply. Some I think are made up... "Innovation, Research and Development Category Leadership"

  4. Does this read to you like a postdoc pharmd fellowship to you? -- "the fellow will develop experience in different consumer-focused areas, including but not limited to, Oral Care, Baby Care, Skin and Hair Care, Wound Care, and others ."

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