Registration assessment

Tutors can help address preregistration training problems now

Preregistration tutors must take their responsibility to trainees seriously and provide a supportive learning environment.…

Pass rate for September 2015 registration assessment stands at 64%

The percentage of pharmacist trainees who passed the registration assessment in September 2015 was 64% — three percentage points higher than the September 2014 pass rate.…

Introducing accreditation for tutors and innovative teaching methods will help improve registration pass rates

The way preregistration trainees are taught must be changed in order to improve pass rates and preparation for practice.…

GPhC publishes anonymised individual results for pharmacists’ registration assessment

The professional regulator for pharmacists has published the individual candidate results of graduates who sat the June 2015 registration assessment on its website.…

Ditch the pharmacist registration exam

Graham Phillips made some interesting points in his letter ‘Is the registration exam failing trainees?’ ( The Pharmaceutical Journal 2015;295:213). Perhaps we should go further and question why there is a need for a registration exam. Is there eviden…

Disparity between pass rates for community and hospital trainees is cause for concern, says pharmacy regulator

The continuing difference in pass rates between hospital and community trainees for the pharmacy registration assessment has been described as a “cause for concern” by the professional regulator.…

Exam failures help control pharmacist numbers

The news story on research that correlated lower entry standards and registration assessment failure rates ( The Pharmaceutical Journal 2015;295:170) was interesting reading but little more. The researchers did not follow individual students, only the schoo…

GPhC publishes exam questions for the first time

Questions from this summer’s professional registration assessment with advice about possible pitfalls and what the examiners are looking for have been released for the first time by the General Pharmaceutical Council’s independent board of assessors.…

Students trained at schools with lower entry standards more likely to fail GPhC registration exam

Pharmacy students that join university courses with lower A-level requirements or through ‘clearing’ are more likely to fail the General Pharmaceutical Council registration assessment at their first sitting.…