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Originally Posted by Jeff  Worked with a polish pharmacist for a month while working out my notice at Lloyds,
Did I train them? - in part - I passed on some local knowledge - sorted MUR and repeat dispensing registration with the PCT and introduced them into my network.
Discuss pharmacology - yes - there wasn't a marked disparity in knowledge
Dispense accurately - yes
and quick - no - but that was not a requisite for the branch.
Jeff |
Fair enough Jeff, that's nice to know. Maybe I've just been unlucky with the people I've worked with recently. I don't remember saying they were Polish though.
My point was that if there are people with what seems like very little clinical knowledge, do you actually need it, or are they a disaster waiting to happen? I feel that I use clinical knowledge every day, but if you don't have much then you can't, can you. If you don't know what the autonomic nervous system is, why would you question beta blockers/asthma or sympathomimetics/hypertension to be possible problems?
I also don't understand why there seems to be such a variance in people's knowledge, when they are all around the same age. Obviously this is true for British pharmacists too, but I generally find that two young pharmacists from the UK universities have a similiar level of knowledge. I know many other factors come into being a good pharmacist, but just sticking to drug knowledge I don't understand how you can be a registered pharmacist in the UK and have no knowledge of the things I listed in the first post on this.