5 episodes
Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Podcast The Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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4.1 • 7 Ratings
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Your pharmacy foundation training year is a massive learning curve. Join Aamir Shaikh from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society every month as he talks to experienced students and tutors who share their insights about coping with the challenges it brings. Whether you want to know about your first day, how to meet learning outcomes, prepare for your progress reviews or pass your registration assessments, this is the podcast for you.
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Maintaining your wellbeing as a Foundation Trainee Pharmacist
How do you keep yourself mentally and physically well during your Foundation training?
This episode of our Foundation Trainee Podcast series looks at ways to the issue of Maintaining your wellbeing. This episode features handy tips on using your time wisely both in and outside of work, including balancing your time between work and revision, so you can stay well and deal with challenges that arise in your life as a trainee pharmacist.
Featured speakers joining our Foundation training lead Kina Vyas, are Baguiasri Mandane, a Foundation trainee designated supervisor and workplace wellbeing champion, and Chloe Pheasey, currently a trainee pharmacist, undergoing a split placement working in hospital and GP practice.
Find all our resources and support for foundation trainee pharmacists at https://www.rpharms.com/development/trainee-pharmacists
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Revise and prepare for a successful registration assessment
This episode of our Foundation Trainee Podcast looks at ways to get prepared for the all important GPhC registration assessment for trainees, including handy tips on when and how to revise most effectively for the calculations paper, how to find the most reliable practice questions, and general tips on fitting your revision around your work and personal life.
Featured speakers are Salma Al-Hamzy, pharmacist and calculations training expert, and Greg Nolan, a recently qualified pharmacist.
Find all our resources and support for foundation trainee pharmacists at https://www.rpharms.com/development/trainee-pharmacists
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What to expect during your Foundation training year
In our first episode, we spoke to experienced tutor Khalid Khan, as well as recent trainee Krishan Patel. We cover what to expect during the training year and top tips on how to be successful and maintain a healthy work life balance. Find all our resources and support for foundation trainees at https://www.rpharms.com/development/trainee-pharmacists
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Getting to grips with your learning outcomes
In our first podcast, we spoke to experienced tutor Khalid Khan and recent trainee Krishan Patel. Episode Two looks at the new updated learning outcomes for trainees including handy tips on gathering, recording and reviewing your evidence to make 100% sure you’re exactly where you want to be.
Find all our resources and support for foundation trainee pharmacists at https://www.rpharms.com/development/trainee-pharmacists
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Preparing for your first progress review
In our first three podcasts of the series, we spoke to experienced tutor Khalid Khan, as well as recent trainee Krishan Patel.
In Episode Three we discuss progress reviews, how best to prepare for them, and how to record and present your evidences. We discuss what your tutor's expectations will be when you reach your upcoming week 13 review, so you can make sure everything goes to plan.
Find all our resources and support for trainee pharmacists at https://www.rpharms.com/development/trainee-pharmacists
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Customer Reviews
Great tips but don’t forget about real life!
Episode 4 is a really nice listen and gives some great tips for sitting down to revise and prepare for the registration assessment. However, this is not the only way to prepare. I think it’s really important to realise that the registration assessment is a gateway to clinical practice. Aamir touched on it when he talked about the assessment being there to ensure everyone has a minimal competence to register as a pharmacist.
A huge part of exam preparation is making sure you’ve got the underpinning knowledge and skills to be a pharmacist. All of the questions, whether is be calculation, SBA, EMQ etc are about done starting your knowledge and solving problems to give the most appropriate answer. It’s not just “what you know”, it’s also about your application of knowledge and your problem solving efficiency. Revising for the assessment is not just about picking up the BNF and a calculator. You need to look for opportunities in your everyday practice throughout your foundation training year to develop and exercise your knowledge and skills.
I would have loved the podcast to have picked up on this point. Trainees become overly obsessed with sitting down at a desk to revise. That will always play a part, but if you are ready to be a good pharmacist and you have developed consistently through your training, you should feel very prepared already. A combination of all of the above is what we need.
Just what I needed
I was worried about my pre-reg placement but this podcast has really helped me settle in! It’s helped me with my tutor and I know what I need to do next.