The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7394 p373
1 April 2006

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Faculty of Prescribing and Medicines Management starts mentoring scheme for prescribers

The Faculty of Prescribing and Medicines Management, a professional support body within the College of Pharmacy Practice, has called on pharmacist prescribers with over a year's experience to support a new mentoring programme for newly qualified prescribers (see p381).

Karen Acott, supplementary prescriber and board member of the FPMM, said: “The FPMM already has a successful mentorship programme, and it is only natural that this support is extended to newly qualified pharmacist prescribers. Prescribing is a new activity for the profession and many pharmacist prescribers have had to deal with unfamiliar issues that can be ethically, medically and legally complex. Mentoring is a way of gaining support from a peer who understands the context and complexity of such anxieties, and who can help translate them into positive experiences that develop a confident practitioner.”