bradford for pharm

[admin]

Originally Posted by Pharmanaut

Pre-reg was fine. It was when I was a newly minted pharmacist at B**ts it was like being on permanent 'jankers'. What finished me off there was getting told off for talking to the customers. It greatly motivated me to leave ASAP. As mentioned in other postings - I cannot even step into any B**ts even after 25+ years - I've tried once or twice, even managed 2 minutes once.

I was a store manager for them a few years ago - the paperwork eventually did my head in!

[_Rob_]

Hi Students & people,

Hospital Pre-reg.

After a few years of being a Saturday boy in a community pharmacy, when it came to my pre-reg, I decided to join the NHS and do my service in a small District General Hospital. As a general rule, I rotated around the different areas of the department spending my first 3 months or so in the dispensary, working as a technician. The next 3 months, I spent doing aseptics (which I wasn't so keen on). Then, I spent 3 months doing clinical work (ward based pharmacy and medicines information), then exam preparation, passed exam and then they treated me like a proper pharmacist (although I wasn't qualified) - this really helped once I was qualified.
Good Points:
1. Variation - If I didn't like something, the most amount of time I usually spent doing it was about 2 months. (No stocking the shelves etc...)
2. Teaching - I had 12 pharmacist plus numerous very knowledgeable techs all who were very willing to help and advise where they possibly could.
3. Time - I was given loads of study time to write up evidence etc... Talking to community pre-regs, they usually have to do most of it in their own time.
4. Peer Support - There were other pre-regs/basic grades around, who had or were having the same kind of problems.
5. I lived in nursing quarters - I was like being in the middle 'No angles' (channel 4 soap about nurses)!!! Good if you like a laugh and a beer.
Bad points:
1. Pay - although this has changed with agenda for change.
2. The dug tariff.....what is it, why do I need to know about it....why, why ,why???? On a more serious point, I felt that some of the evidence standards were skewed towards community pharmacy (but perhaps some were skewed towards hospital), these were often difficult to achieve in the hospital setting.

[Pharmanaut]

Originally Posted by _Rob_

2. The dug tariff.....what is it, why do I need to know about it....why, why ,why???? On a more serious point, I felt that some of the evidence standards were skewed towards community pharmacy (but perhaps some were skewed towards hospital), these were often difficult to achieve in the hospital setting.

Don't mention the drug tariff to me.
I hate the damn thing - it rules our lives in community pharmacy, and I spend too much time trying to figure it out.

[_Rob_]

Originally Posted by Pharmanaut

Don't mention the drug tariff to me.
I hate the damn thing - it rules our lives in community pharmacy, and I spend too much time trying to figure it out.

You poor community guys, I haven't met anybody who likes or truly understands the Drug Tariff. You would have thought that they would have tried to have improved it and made it more user friendly by now! Any ideas??

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by _Rob_

You poor community guys, I haven't met anybody who likes or truly understands the Drug Tariff. You would have thought that they would have tried to have improved it and made it more user friendly by now! Any ideas??

How about limiting NHS prescribable medicines to those in the WHO essential drug list.
EMLib WHO Model Formulary
or
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2005/a87017_eng.pdf

anything else as private.

Jeff

[ferretmanabu]

Did my pre-reg in hospital. I actually enjoyed it. After a summer placement at Boots, I knew I couldn't stomach community pharmacy as a full time career.

Hospital was good because there was variation. The maximum time I spent on one rotation was about 6 weeks. I wasn't stuck in the dispensary for very long actually and hit the wards fairly soon after I started.

I'd recommend hospital pre-reg to anyone because you can change to community if you want afterwards and it won't require much training. I made sure i paid a lot of attention to my 4 weeks cross-sector placement and so I went into locumming in community on my first day as a qualified pharmacist.

Good luck.

[confused.com]

Well thats the advantage of bradford sandwich course u can see both sectors and decide which one u would want to do after u qualify. I will be doing my final 6 months placement in hospital this year, and from what ive heard and read, hospital sounds much more interesting and variable as to what you do.

[Asterix]

jesus not been on the site since I started this thread and its expanded madly. Few questions to students who are at brad already?

1. What is the city and uni like?
2. Is there a massive asian commuinty?
3. What graders did u get in, so say you missed your offer do they still let you on?
4. Are there any industrial places?

finally keep to topic please peeps, about bradford! haha