Weekend is here~

I think I am getting a little sluggish in updating this blog. Partly because I'm usually so brain dead that I lost all the wittiness that I, uhm, usually have. Heh. Well, I'll try my best. Anyway this blog is really meant more for myself in future when I could look back and reminisce about my preceptorship days.

Well, my preceptor has to attend a campaign talk this morning and because of that, I get to go to work half an hour late. Even then, I missed the oh-so-slow 200 bus and ended up being almost 10 minutes later. But it was OK. Started off my morning with the usual walk around the store, doing a little housekeeping and replenishing the stocks on the shelf. Just something I do every morning to warm myself up for the day. My preeptor then asked me how's my presentation coming along and asked whether it is OK if I were to present it at 12.30pm. I said yeah, OK. Anything is OK with me really.

Then the usual busyness of the day began. Customers streaming in to get their prescriptions filled. Some will come to enquire about the products we carry and some would want us to compare between two similar products. And there's quite a bit of showing the customers around so that they could get what they want. Talked a little with my preceptor and asked him whether the schedule I have in mind for my own learning is OK with him. Looks like I'll have to think it through the weekend and come out with a manageable schedule and workload for me to work on. Hope I won't kill myself with too much work.

Made 2 trips down to other outlets today to collect medicines. Met my classmates and got a chance to see how different their working condition is like. I think I have landed myself in quite a relaxed workplace. Firstly, there's not many customers in the day and I have a great preceptor. Because of those two reasons, I have more contact time and I get to learn more stuff from him.

One thing I learn about myself lately is that I have some trouble communicating effectively. I need to learn to be concise and answer questions as they are asked. Also, there's really a need to quicken my thinking pace as well as my mental organisation skills. I hope I'll be able to improve in this aspect by the end of this programme.

In the afternoon, my preceptor had to leave for antoher meeting again. So a locum pharmacist came in. He took over the role of my preceptor and just went on talking and talking and talking and talking. Just feel that he talks too much and seems to be a little biased in his views.

Left later than usual today cos I was keeping myself busy with a few things like answering calls and locating certain drugs. Also, finally I got the opportunity to help the pharmacist dispense! Haha.

Oh yes, my presentation went pretty smoothly. My preceptor did not comment much on it except to ask ten million questions on it. I am actually quite happy being able to answer some of them. And some others, they are really thought-provoking. That's his style of making us understand why we do certain things and prevent us from blindly following the rules without questioning. A little bit like Pereira I must say...

A little bit about my preceptor. He graduated from Canada and because of that, he speaks with an American accent and sometimes I have trouble understanding him. And today, he had to articulate this question in a slow and choppy manner, "Why-do-S3-poisons-need prescriptions?" Haha. It was so funny. But really, I have trouble understanding what other people say sometimes, especially those Indon maids and some ang mohs from Germany or France. Btw, did I mention that I simply luuuuuuurve the Brit accent? Hurhurhur. Oh yes, my preceptor. He's well-known to be very strict and tough towards his students and pre-reggers (that's what we call a pre-registration pharmacist). In fact, some of my seniors cried cos they really couldn't take his questionings and teaching/guiding style. I just hope I will remain strong. In fact, I like him very much! :) I simply admire his professional conduct. And this is a good start - to have a positive influence.