eleojo23:


Wow...I said I will not comment but I have to tell you that you are mixing things up...

hemmagiz:


Bro please can you enlighten me on it.. .what re their differences

jaajaa:


Sorry u totally misunderstand me , I good moeny, I am jus giving a simple advice, I am abt to lend a college 5k nd I keep lending colleagues money almost on daily basis, these guys r unemployed or under employed

poyebad:


Thanks olusegxz. I received a mail from a pharmacist this morning sharing his personal experience. Based on what he wrote (quoted below) I believe you have a wrong information about pharmacists, and I even think may be earning so much more than doctors.

"Hello poyebad.
I came across a post initiated by you on Nairaland and I decided to share my personal experience to encourage your brother. This experience is not just mine, similar pattern is experienced by pharmacists all around the country. Pharmacists who are ready to work and not the ones who are comfortable with the meagre salaries being offered them both in the public and private sectors. Even if you're receiving #300k monthly as a pharmacist, it still qualifies as a pharmacist. The pharmacist is trained to function as a healthcare provider and at the same time as a businessman. I make bold to tell you that you cannot find a pharmacist who satisfies both aspects of his training that is not outstandingly wealthy. I worked briefly in a hospital and after just six months I decided to work as a pharmaceutical rep where my monthly target was in excess of #30,000,000 monthly. That's what set me thinking: why help another to make #30,000,000 monthly when I have all it takes (except the capital at the time) to make the same for myself. I built a little capital from working for the company from salaries and commissions. After three years working for the company and about seven years ago, I set up my own community pharmacy. Right now I have an allied production industry that produces about 23 products. My average cumulative daily sales (from the community pharmacy and from the production company) is approximately #57,000,000 (calculated for the first half of the year 2017). While I am not going to give you an idea of how much of that I pay myself as income, I believe this information should help you convince your friend.

Let me conclude this way: very few professions have the capacity to make you super rich in Nigeria. One of them is agriculture, the other one is pharmacy. Make no mistake about it, medicine can not provide you this kind of financial edge, except few exceptionally business savvy doctors who have learnt to step outside the comfort of their meagre comfortable salaries and into the world of medical business. In the end it makes not much difference what your friend decides to study. The more important factor is the kind and quality of person he is. If he is the salary type, then medicine is good for him. But if he is the type interested in building financial empire, then pharmacy is what he should go for."

poyebad:


I appreciate your submission nextprince. It's just spot on. As a bright student, my brother believes medicine suits him, and especially because medicine is prestigious. However, he is (we all are) being forced to reconsider that, with so many doctors being unable to get job in the country. I don't know what the situation is for pharmacy... I don't know many pharmacists, except that some said pharmacy as a course is a lot tougher than medicine. That challenge is what is now making him consider pharmacy as a good, if not better option. But I'm concerned if he will be able to make a good life as a pharmacist.
MLS is medical laboratory science; i think the guys that carry faeces and urine. But if provides better living for him, why not?

MzzTega:


Jesus!!!! Guy, who gave you this stupid orientation

Stop spewing trash if you gat no idea.

damilare2015:
I will advice him to go for either medicine, mls or nursing. The three courses have higher chances of getting employed than a pharmacist

Jman06:
You are just ignorant. Aside functioning in the hospital, the pharmacist functions in in industry, administration, education, research, community pharmacy,etc. In industries, they serve either as production pharmacists and quality control officers. They also serve as company representatives in hospitals and pharmacies to enhance sales. When multinational companies come into the country, they engage pharmacists as medical reps to help facilitate sales of their products and they pay in hard currencies.

Hospital pharmacists don't just dispense drugs like some ignorant people are saying here, they also correct errors in doctors prescriptions and engage in formulation of extemporaneuos formulations, and very soon in nigeria they would begin to participate in ward rounds as in other countries.

Nigeria needs more pharmacists

rocoh:


Thanks for the prompt response. Its school of health in Yaba i think. How easy is it getting admission with ond into the MLS course. And which Universities close to Lagos can one attend fpr the MLS. Thank you.

Jman06:
The guy is so shameless. Pharmacologists that only study how drugs work in the body for the purpose of helping in research, and the ignoramus said they produce drugs. I wonder the kind of drug they would produce with zero knowledge of pharmaceutics and pharm technology.

MzzTega:


I just weak for the guy.

Everybody wants to contribute nau! Both Sense and nonsense.

olusegxz:
It's on the 4th page now but will still put in my two kobo as a doctor trained in Nigeria and now working as a Aesthetic surgeon in Australia. Firstly what qualifies a good health degree. In the health field like the military there is a strict hierarchy. This is to ensure orderliness in the business of saving lives. Top is the medical doctor/dentist, followed by pharmacist, pharmacologists, physiotherapists etc. Then nurses.

So in terms of which is best in the health field obviously a medical doctor or dentist. A pharmacist technically cannot function without a doctor as doctors tell them what to dispense for the patients. Pretty boring career. Nurses, well, dirtiest of the list and least paid also but vital to the health field probably the most vital you will be surprised what a primary health nurse can do in the absence of a doctor.

So which is best economically. Well the health field in Nigeria is not lucrative. None of them are. If he is after money he should find greener pastures now before it's too late. But then in Nigeria of today which occupation really pays well. I think we are all in the same economic downturn boat. But should he insist on the health industry he should be humble and ready to serve with brain, time and compassion.

Doctors generally earn about N150k to about N270k, and that salary scale drops rapidly for the rest of the list.

Pharmacists usually don't feel compelled to work in hospitals so they have a wider job reach without the usual question 'But you are a doctor why are you working in a bank'. So that gives pharmacists an edge. However no matter where they work I won't expect them to earn more than the 130 to 200k margin on average.

Medical lab guys don't earn a lot at all. Some big diagnostic centers like Mecure pay their lab scientists about 100k. If you get this offer as a Med lab scientist you are doing ok.

Nursing is bottom but you can work in private hospitals and earn about 70k. And you can do private home care for some rich folks. So if you are smart you can actually be smiling home more than the doctor. If you are a pretty nurse then the gods are smiling at you. Those private jobs will come in flocks.

Radiography is also good salary scale between 70k to about 120k. Lots of jobs in diagnostic centers.

Abroad

Nursing is best if you can travel, followed by medicine, then dentistry and etc. Pharmacists don't earn a whole lot abroad.

Conclusion

If your brother is smart enough to pass fellowship exams and foreign board exams he should do medicine or dentistry and secure a future abroad he can return to nigeria as a visiting surgeon or consultant and demand 3million per elective surgery depends on procedure. While working abroad he can earn between $6k to $15k a month. This goes up as you advance your career.

jaajaa:
Op am a medical doc, I will strongly advice against being a doctor!!
Pharmacy is far better even, Radiography buh medicine no no in naija
Unless he wants to earn 100k to 120k nd read for the rest of his God given life.

Agu87:
on point,am a radiographer and i can confirm this,except if the radiographer chooses not to work.

Maxvasia:
U always hear them kidnap Doctors but av u ever heard that they kidnap Pharmacist, Lab Scientists, or nurses?
That should tell u much already. Medicine still and will forever supercede all of them. If he is as bright as u say, and u want a real challenge to that gifted brain, Medicine is the greatest test and challenge. Better opportunities wen u read Medicine, more prestige, more respect, more nobility.......name it. The fact that Doctors are not treated well in Nigeria does not mean they are not treated better elsewer. Medicine is still ahead of all those other choices abeg. If it wer my brother or son, i wudnt even think twice. Fact

Bapy:
sir just recently 'Evans' kidnapped a pharmacist and demanded a ransom of N150m from him

damilare2015:
I will advice him to go for either medicine, mls or nursing. The three courses have higher chances of getting employed than a pharmacist

Maxvasia:
A pharmacists son, not a pharmacist. And that is cos the father of the kidnapped is a multimillionaire. Isolated case

opera1:



@ Daprim: I ve already had MLT result & wish 2 goto Any Gud university 2ru DE into MLS program.
Pls how easy is d Admission into d RSU 2ru DE?

Maxvasia:
A pharmacists son, not a pharmacist. And that is cos the father of the kidnapped is a multimillionaire. Isolated case

Maxvasia:
A pharmacists son, not a pharmacist. And that is cos the father of the kidnapped is a multimillionaire. Isolated case

Wishaky:
Medical Laboratory Science, he wouldn't struggle to get job.

Bigsteveg:

Hi, are u based in Lagos or Ekiti?

Wishaky:



Lagos