DrugXpert Blog

Pharmacy interns The major challenge pharmacy graduates in Nigeria face is internship placement. Internship is a one year compulsory programme design to teach pharmacy graduates in one or more aspects of the profession. It was introduced some years back. Read Also : Pharmacy internship placement process and interview questions Getting an internship placement used to be very easy. So many pharmacy graduates then had two or more placements. They were opportuned to make choices. However, the story today is different. Many pharmacy graduates are roaming the streets in search of internship placement. They spend years and money in this battle. This is because the number of schools has multipled whereas the number of internship centers has refused to grow at a relative rate. PSN Central Placement To alleviate the suffering of interns, the leadership of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have written to the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) on the way forward. They su...

Preceptor Pharmacists can find themselves playing the role of a preceptor to pharmacy interns. It can be what they bargained for or imposed on them by the organization they worked. Whatever the case, they can succeed in it. Pharmacy interns are there to learn. With only theory from school, they are here to see and practicalize what they have been taught in school. It is the duty of a preceptor to put them through. To be successful, they will have to learn this in a stepwise manner. Read Also : Pharmacy interns job description For a pharmacist to be a better preceptor, they must have knowledge on the field and leadership qualities. Having one and lacking the other can hinder the learning of the intern. Learning the basic leadership qualities is a must and yet very easy. Steps For Preceptor Example Every modern pharmacist was once an intern. That means they were once under the supervision of a preceptor. You can visualize steps your preceptor took back in the days, thin...

To get an internship position as a pharmacy student is difficult. This is pushing interns into applying for companies they don't really like that does not suit their passion. At the end, they end up frustrated. I am not here to advice if it is proper to apply for just any internship center or focus on the center that meets your career need. Whatever situation you find yourself, you can learn and grow your career if you do it well. As an intern most likely without any prior experience, you may feel like the world should just open and swallow you because everything seems rotating while you stand in one place. Not to worry. We all felt that way. However, with the right approach you can get things right  As an intern, you are  here to learn. To make the learning easy, be focus and determine. No matter where you found yourself you will have to learn from all the staffs. You can't know everything. You can't even know about client more than those who have been there. As this i...