ADVICE FROM EARLY CAREER PHARMACISTS
What is your best piece of advice for new interns? Be prepared for a year of learning and making lots of mistakes (so you can learn from them as you’re supervised), but also at the end of the year start trying to work independently - Cathy, Hospital Intern 2018 Leave yourself plenty of time to play hard not just work hard. Intern year is amongst the most stressful of your life around exam time. Spending too much time in the books won’t do your exam prep or mental heath any good. Make sure you leverage the knowledge of all the pharmacists your work with not just your preceptor. Speak to as many as you can and pick up things that work for you. Your method of checking a script may di er from someone else’s depending on what is comfortable with you. And don’t rush anything!
- Dillon, Hospital Intern 2019 Be proactive, engage with the pharmacists you work with, show curiosity and ask lots of questions
- Kimia, Community Pharmacy Intern 2019
Remember why you chose to be a pharmacist. There are times that you will encounter di cult situations and people but you will do well to remember we exist to serve patients' holistic health.
- Jenny, Community Pharmacy Intern 2020 Ask questions, throw yourself at any learning/teaching experience you can, - Maddie, Hospital Intern 2016 be engaged!
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