[Jeff]

Originally Posted by parent of pre-reg student

she was even failed for not communicating in clear English.

My experience of pre-reg students is limited to locumming with them, however I'd fail most on their ability to communicate for maybe the first 6 months.
There's too much new stuff going on for them to be confident enough to communicate well.

Her uni mates got between 10 and 40 competencies depending upon where they work - so she's doing much worse than they are, yet they all got the same degree and she has been asked to do so much more than they have when they have all compared notes.

Perhaps a difference between a structured approach to tutoring and an unstructured approach. (and I'm not stating a preference)

It seems so unfair and random

Life is.

- her tutor does not approve of her personality - I don't think it's about Pharmacy at all but other issues - but she has all the power!

The number of times I've heard my children say something similar about their teachers (gdrvvf).
Shy and polite doesn't cut it in community pharmacy - the reasons a customer will choose you rather than the next pharmacist - is down to the impression that you make with them.

Still, she has drawn up an action plan to move to the 26 week review - she ticked "some progress" rather than none, but "satisfactory" would have felt so much safer - I still feel she is being kept on a knife edge - how can she grow in confidence or competence with this level of micro management and constant disapproval?

So whose school report described them as

Q1 ..... 'idle' and 'inattentive'.?

Q2 “cannot be trusted to behave himself anywhere”, and that he was “so regular in his irregularity that I really don’t know what to do”.

Q3“He is rebellious, objectionable, idle, imbecilic, inefficient, antagonising, untidy, lunatic, albino, conceited, inflated, impertinent, underhand, lazy and smug.”

Q4 “He has glaring faults, and they have certainly glared at us this term.”

Q5 “Hopeless . . . certainly on the road to failure.”

Q6. ".. shows great originality, which must be curbed at all costs.”

Q7. "... has set herself an extremely low standard which she has failed to maintain'

Q8, "...grasp of elementary dynamics is truly astonishing. Had he lived in an earlier aeon, I have little doubt but that the wheel would now be square and the principle of the lever just one more of man’s impossible dreams'

I think the whole year is going to be awful, and we'll be waiting in dread for the 26 week review - will the axe fall then? Can we do anything? Things feel quite hopeless/pointless - what a frightful trudge!

It's a bit like learning to drive - lots of going through the individual bits - then suddenly for no apparent reason it comes together.

Jeff