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Originally Posted by N.T  I would advise finishing pre-reg if you have already started. After that...well then leave! |
What if after putting up with all that you still dont get signed off, will you have regrets for not leaving it.
I once did a six months placement in hospital. After the second week their i was really upset and hated it, aswell as some of the staff. I tried to leave but the university pre-reg tutor strongly advised against it and talked/urged me into going back and carrying on. Telling me stories of where he had been in the same situation but he persevered and it worked out for the best.
So very reluctantly i went back and carried on. put in 100% every day. put up with those annoying staff members. It was terrible. I was called all sorts of things from muggings, to lowest of the low.
I mean to be called 'the lowest of the low' by a qualified pharmacist really delivers a knock out blow. I mean are they not 'intellectual' or do they not live in the real world. Have they never come across or heard about murderers, rapists, paedophiles etc.. These people are the 'lowest of the low' , so for me as a pre-reg to be put in the same category as them really hurt at that time. On top of that i have been accused of 'thinking that i know than/and am better than technicians). But to be honest if after 4 years at uni i dont know more than most technicians then the course cant have been that good at all. Also you are who you associate with, so if you spend most of the day with pharmacists who think they gods gift to mankind, who regulary put you down, pull rank on you then it will rub off on you. (an example of the bullied becomes the bully) . That pre-reg would then go and do the same to other members of staff. Also apparently I cant communicate effectively in english. What a joke what kind of english are pharmacists required to speak!?? I mean when you talk to a patient, you will only be asking basic questions and using normal layman's english. I mean after spending 23-24 years in fulltime education, completing a masters degree, a dissertation and giving numerous presentations at university you are still deemed as not being able to communicate effectively in english then I dont agree.
Oh and on top of that I wasnt signed off. Then on the last day of leaving I was given a sort of leaving do, where all the staff gathered to say farewell etc... What a joke, they were all there smiling wishing me well knowing full well I had not been signed off and well all I could do was smile back I guess. Dont get me wrong I got along with a few staff members, had they not been there my life there would have been really really bad. Im still gratefull for their help and support.
If a tutor gives you a rough time, and then tells you a kind of story/excuse about how bad/strict their tutor was on them. Then sorry but that is not a good enough excuse to treat you badly, was it your fault their tutor was bad/strict with them.
My advice is if you work anywhere and you dont like it, give it atleast a month or so and if you still dont like it then leave. They cant stop you, they can try and persuade you not to, but its still up to you. Either that or just carry on, put up with it, get stressed, depressed, ill and maybe or maybe not get signed off and if you dont get signed off no ones going to want to hear your 'terrible pre-reg story' because they prob would not care anyway and anyway what can they do, you've kind of wasted a year of your life, lost out on £25-35,000 in a years salary as qualified pharmacist and on top when you go apply for another pre-reg the fact that you have already failed one will go against you.