The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7233 p116
25 January 2003

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Letters to the Editor

Mentoring

Most of us have experienced mentoring

From Mr J. R. Martin, MRPharmS

I do hope that you are ready to cope with the deluge of post regarding pharmacists' experience of mentoring (PJ, 11 January, p38). My personal experience, when I was on the lower rungs of my career ladder, was very helpful to me. I had a fulfilling relationship with my senior figure, or mentor (although I knew him as my "tutor"). I believe that most people on the register had a similar experience early in their careers — or was everyone else having a good laugh watching me do my "preregistration training"?

By the way, I imagine that the "no easy task" involved in finding a suitable supervisor will also be familiar from the times of finding a satisfactory preregistration post. Hence I think that most, if not all, pharmacists are ideally equipped to cope with the challenges presented by this initiative.

Jonathan Martin
Wallingford, Oxfordshire

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