Pre-reg year compared to university/working life

[BellaNotte]

I wasn't sure where to put this, as I'd like replies from pharmacists and current pre-reg students really, but what is the pre-reg year like in terms of work load?

I know it's full time work plus studying for the exam, projects etc, so compared to university is it likely to have more of "a life" or less? Considering the more free time available at university.. Did you find during your pre-reg year that you did more work at home than during university, or is it really more on the job work and bits at home?

I'm just wondering if i'll be having any free time at all when i start my pre-reg this year.

Thanks for any replies

[Nik]

Hey bella have you got your pre-reg in hospital or community ?

[Asterix]

lets just say shes in hospital, whats the deal

[Nik]

lets just say shes in hospital, whats the deal

Why the aggro ? There is no deal - I was only asking as I've PM'd her before about placements etc and was just asking out of curiosity. She doesn't have to answer if she doesn't want to.

[Sir_Dispensalot]

and don't forget that the pre-reg workload / style is very different between hospital and community!

[BellaNotte]

Hey bella have you got your pre-reg in hospital or community ?

Hey Nikolai I've gone with community in the end, I assume your hospital?

[BellaNotte]

and don't forget that the pre-reg workload / style is very different between hospital and community!

The style would certainly be different but how do they differ in terms of workload having to do over the year at home?

[Nik]

Hey Nikolai I've gone with community in the end, I assume your hospital?

Yep

[bleepholder]

hey, i thought the workload was less than uni. although its a full time job like 9-5 and all that, with odd weekends thrown in...its not all hardcore work throughout the year..a lot of it you pick up on the job (well for me in hospital i did).....

it did feel good not to ahve to revise over christmas for exams......i wouldn't worry about it..enjoy it and just be rpepared to knuckle down when the exam nears......

as for having a life.....your evenings will be free, you won't get your afternoons off or lie ins on a monday morning.....but its great to be able to come home from work and switch off and not have to think about coursework or looming exams

[amjon]

It's awful. After a few weeks you'll realise that more than 90% of what you learnt in uni is useless and the 10% that is applicable is the boring social pharmacy/ dispensing module that you did your living best to forget once walked out of the exam hall. What’s more you'll soon realise that MUR's are not "coning the NHS" like you might of thought at university. Instead they are an implement that has been cynically designed to create so much pressure and friction in the work place that pharmacists will soon be begging for a reduction in dispensing responsibilities. Once this occurs ACT's (aka cheap labour) will take over with remote supervision following not soon after. Also you'll get a weekly dose of propaganda in the form of the Pharmaceutical Journal that will be more than happy to tell you of the delightful enhanced services that you will be providing in the future, naturally there will be no mention of the renumeration we will receive for doing GP's work(just aswell as any money that does come our way will be going directly into the contractors pocket). After you come to terms with how inherently flawed/ rotten to the core our profession is you will then begin to get to know the public. I could spend the rest of the night regaling you anecdotal tales of idiots , fat messes, chavs that would make Vicky Pollard look the Duchess of York and so on. The one thing I will tell you is that you should never underestimate the stupidity of the public: I generally assume that everyone who walks into the store is an asthmatic who smokes 60 a day, is addicted to co-codamol, fills their children with anti-histamines before trotting off to the pub for a cheeky 20 pints, and eats light bulbs in their spare time. As for work load, if you can stand to open the BNF after 8/9 hours of the above you'll doing very well. So all in all its pretty god dam bad compared to uni, hopefully I'll never be able to compare it with working life as a pharmacist as once/if I can be bothered passing my pre-reg I'll be looking for work elsewhere or getting JSA.