Talk:Pharmacy residency

UK Residency

I have removed the UK section here as completely inaccurate. Currently there is no standard residency used for hospital pharmacists. Although a Clinical Certificate and Diploma would be seen as an essential for applying for band 7-8a + jobs in NHS it is not a strict requirement, and often pharmacists can be willing to or have just started a Diploma and be allowed to complete it within these new posts.

Also note that a pharmacist doing a residency (out of hours work) is completely separate from doing a residency as in a structured course/education in the UK. Also it is not always standard that an entry level pharmacist will be enrolled on a Certificate/Diploma, and there is certainly no legal requirement for them to be so.

I think I will add back in the section soon something along the lines of:

There is no legal definition or requirement for a pharmacy residency in the UK, but that it is generally expected to have to be successfully promoted within hospital pharmacy to have a post-graduate qualification in the field being either a Certificate, Diploma or MSc in Pharmaceutical Care/Practice. Entry level and junior pharmacists within UK hospital pharmacy are not automatically enrolled onto these courses, but it is increasingly expected.

Within the UK, a residency/resident pharmacist is widely used to describe a pharmacist who will work a shift system that includes working out of hours on site (distinct from an on-call system whereby an out of hours service will be offered by phone, with the pharmacists only attending the hospital if absolutely necessary).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Lethaniol (talk • contribs) 21:44, 12 January 2011 (UTC)