PCE - Patient Counselling Event.

This year's is solely student-based in bid to prepare our precious juniors for their upcoming 6 weeks long community pharmacy stint.

I hope they go with a very open mind and try to get as much experience as possible in order to maximise those 6 weeks. If they were to sit around to bump - it would be a sheer waste. They should also note that for every disease everyone has very different opinions to treatment and they also need to know that treatment for any disease is best tailor for particular patients.

However, I feel that it would be best to invite speakers with a whole lot more experience and those who have more authority to speak on the topics concerned. I felt that there is a need to go in depth so that our juniors will not go shell-shocked when they start their stint - so I believe more time should be allocated.

Everyone has different opinions and a rigid exam-format way to answer questions is highly unadvisable - I'm not interested in dunno what fame but I've a lot of things to say =p Fame comes with a lot of responsibility and require a lot of work to uphold - I'm a slacker.

Community Pharmacy Practice such as Watson's, Guardian and Unity, are front line pharmacies where they serve the community in which they are stationed it. Pharmacists must practise automony when dealing with prescriptionless walkin-in and work with doctors who send presciptions in. They help give an image to the public as what a pharmacist does for them and to them in the best interest of their health. If all things are done well enough in best interest of the public, I believe that pharmacists would be the preferred dispensing choice over your mere doctor's clinic assistant - more automony leads to more choices, more economy and more efficacy. We can't control the flow of patients from the clinic assistant or the pharmacist but we hope to be the preferred frontline choice.

March onwards juniors and put your best foot forward!!!