The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7350 p612
21 May 2005

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· History of pharmacy

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Pharmacy graduates

More pharmacy graduates will be good for the profession

From Mr B. Shooter, MRPharmS

In response to Rob Duncombe’s letter (PJ, 14 May, p584) about the quantity and quality of pharmacy students and graduates, I maintain that there have always been those who have not made suitable community pharmacists. Unfortunately, they have had the opportunity to practise because of the previous shortages of pharmacists.

This situation encourages a mediocrity that I abhor and reflects badly on the profession as a whole. Now there is a dramatic increase in the number of pharmacy undergraduates, thanks both to the opening of new schools of pharmacy and increasing intakes by many of the existing schools. Employers will now have a choice of graduates to take on as preregistration trainees and of pharmacists to employ.

This must be good for the profession. It will drive us further away from mediocrity and towards the excellence to which most of us aspire.

Barry Shooter
Romford, Essex

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