The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 267 No 7158 p133
28 July 2001

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Only 370 registration examination passes

Only 370 preregistration trainees have become eligible to register as pharmacists this year after passing the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s July registration examination. The number — little more than a quarter of last year’s figure — is low because of the change to a four-year pharmacy degree course in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as a result of which few graduates began their preregistration training last summer. Most of those who sat this year’s examination were graduates of the two schools of pharmacy in Scotland, which already have four-year pharmacy degree courses, or overseas pharmacists who have been required to pass the examination before being able to register here. Others were preregistration trainees who had graduated late from a three-year course or who had had to extend their period of preregistration training.

Until this year, the number of people passing the registration examination had increased steadily from 1,001 in 1993 (the year the examination was introduced) to 1,438 in 2000.

See also Four-year course and examination successes

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