January 2, 2020, by Mei Kee Lee
Alumni Testimonial: Tee Wan Ting (2019)
Can’t believe it has been months since I last graduated from MPharm Degree in UoN! I can still vividly remember when I first joined UNM Foundation in Science, I couldn’t make up my mind on which course to choose. If you asked me why pharmacy five years ago, I wouldn’t know how to answer this. But now, I got this!
Why pharmacy? To me, the measure of a fulfilling life is to be able to help people in need. I want to create value through the things that I do as a qualified pharmacist and use them to impact lives. I am currently doing my pre-registration training at Peterborough City Hospital, UK and I enjoy my working life so far! Obviously pre-reg life isn’t easy, because as a pre-reg you are not only responsible to your work, you also need to study and do revision because there is a pre-reg exam after a year of training. In fact, it is double workload as compared to usual working adults.
Hints and tips on how to ace a pre-reg life, and these are what I do every day:
- Be proactive. You take charge of your own learning. Ask if you don’t know. Do not guess. Take the initiative to look up for the answer using reliable sources.
- Do not perceive dispensary is boring and you couldn’t learn much. Take the initiative to look up for the drugs that you are unfamiliar with.
- Open yourself to any opportunity, never be afraid to lend a helping hand if you could. You will receive more than what you give.
- Life is NOT only about pharmacy. Work-life balance is relatively important – do not forget about your social life, take some time to connect with your university friends.
I truly enjoy hospital pharmacy because I love variety! As a hospital pre-reg, I get to shadow the ward pharmacists and sometimes the specialist nurses in different wards with different specialities. On a daily basis, I perform medicine reconciliation for the patients, address their concern with medicines, review patient’s drug chart and clinically screen the prescriptions. Sometimes, I got to present real-life cases to the pharmacist. The feeling is so surreal when what you learnt from university apply into practice! Besides being on the wards, I also work with the dispensary team in the both outpatient and inpatient dispensaries and learned how to be a team player.
I want to take this opportunity to thank University of Nottingham MPharm Programme delivery team. I did not regret that I had embarked on this journey as a 2+2 student – it is the best deal ever as I got to stay close to home in the first 2 years in Malaysia, as well as got university experience in UK later on.
It is no doubt that the 2+2 MPharm programme had prepared me so well for this pre-reg year especially with all the support given throughout my university life. Two of my favourite modules in final year are: Pharmacy Leadership and Management (PLM) and Integrated Pharmaceutical and Patient Care (IPPC) – which equipped me with a very good foundation of clinical knowledge and shaped me into a confident pre-reg pharmacist.
If you are considering a MPharm programme but not sure where to go, I would definitely recommend University of Nottingham.
(Picture of me having completed Nottingham Advantage Award (NAA) modules and attended the award giving ceremony. I miss NOTTS and my university life!)
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