The Journal's 1999 Credit for Learning exercise has been won by Mrs Patricia Manly, a community pharmacist from Bournemouth. There were three joint runners up: Mrs Barbara Burns, Mrs Caroline Harley and Mr Gregory Sargent.
Prizes sponsored by Genus Pharmaceuticals were presented at a lunch at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's headquarters on April 7.
Mrs Manly works as a Boots relief manager. Accepting her award, she said that she found the PJ continuing education articles, on which Credit for Learning was based, very useful. They were pitched at the right level and could be used in every day practice.
Mrs Burns, who works at Good Hope hospital, Sutton Coldfield, commented on the thoroughness of the questions. "This makes you read the article, and any references, accurately, which is good training," she said. She also noted the value of having a deadline for completing the questions. "You can't put an article to one side, intending to read it, and then never look at it again."
Mr Sargent, a pharmacist at Queen Elizabeth hospital, King's Lynn, said that while all pharmacists recognised the need for continuing education, attending a study day gave no measure of what had been learnt. "Doing the Credit for Learning questions and getting feedback to see how you have done makes it a much more valuable experience," he said.

Bryan Veitch (second from left) with the Credit for Learning winners (left to right) Barbara Burns, Patricia Manly and Gregory Sargent. Caroline Harley was unable to be present