Education

The Pharmaceutical Society is setting up an education advisory group following concerns about the performance of interns at Assessment Centres, and a new education manager has also been appointed. The society is training fewer interns but more technicians this year

In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates

Pharmacist educator Liz Johnstone has retired from the Pharmaceutical Society after nearly 20 years of working full time there and has also shut the door on a 44-year career in community pharmacy

Community pharmacist Claire Salter took part in a full-immersion Māori language course run at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus in 2022. She discusses her reasons for learning te reo as a Pākehā. From April, having a basic understanding of te reo Māori will be a requirement for all pharmacists under the Pharmacy Council’s competency standards

Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund, currently a professor at the University of Otago, will lead the University of Waikato’s pharmacy school, as Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

Community pharmacist Claire Salter took part in a full-immersion Māori language course run at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus in 2022. She discusses her reasons for learning te reo as a Pākehā. From April, having a basic understanding of te reo Māori will be a requirement for all pharmacists under the Pharmacy Council’s competency standards

Non-practising pharmacist Sarah Mooney provides a comprehensive guide to enable pharmacy professionals to assist patients in understanding, treating and controlling their acne concerns

Trauma-informed care is a framework that recognises the need to have a complete picture of a patient’s life to provide them with effective healthcare. It begins with an awareness of what trauma is and how it affects health and wellbeing. Here, Anna Elders challenges you to purposefully focus on the discovery, validation and support of trauma in your patients

From April next year, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and cultural safety will be of central importance in the standards pharmacists are expected to maintain

University of Auckland pharmacy student Mitchell Wong is profiling his fellow pharmacy students, the pharmacists of tomorrow. This month, we meet fourth-year student Jonathan Lo