The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7317 p384
18 September 2004

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Overseas membership

Membership should not be discarded lightly

From Mr G. Munro, FRPharmS

As a pharmacist who is currently in his third prolonged period of living and working abroad I wish to express my disagreement with the views of Ian Nock (PJ, 28 August, p288). In my opinion, all pharmacists or anyone who wishes to remain fit to practise in their chosen profession has a clear obligation to maintain the currency of their competencies irrespective of where they happen to be living. The formal continuing professional development system provides a relatively simple process for focusing and structuring how currency can be maintained and recorded.

Furthermore, my recent experience of working with the staff of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on CPD in a different context was that they were fair, constructive and helpful. So I do not share Mr Nock’s concerns about how the system will be developed and applied to those of us who choose to pursue our careers overseas.

Membership of the Society to me and, I believe, to many others is not to be discarded lightly and certainly not because of a reasonable requirement that we continue to remain up to date and can demonstrate this in a structured manner

Gordon Munro
Florham Park, New Jersey

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