Borrower of Some Common Sense’s account:
This question may be coming ~20 years too late, and probably should have been asked way back when I was deciding career choices..anyway, how much of that course load does the typical pharmacist actually use in his/her daily job? I would imagine that the physiology is important – in terms of knowing drug side effects, combining medications, drug classifications and comparison of similar drugs would all be important, but are the other aspects that you mentioned relevant to the practicing (retail) pharmacist- like mechanism of action, formulation, etc. Does it stay interesting or does the routine of counting out pills, labeling bottles take over?