THE Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia aims to improve pathways into the hospital pharmacy workforce, through its renewal of its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Australian Pharmacy Students' Association (NAPSA).
SHPA CEO, Kristin Michaels, noted NAPSA's National Pharmacy Students Survey 2019 had found 46% of students saw themselves working in a hospital setting within the next five years, but many felt they did not gain enough exposure to the setting during their training programs (PD yesterday).
Michaels called for the Victorian model of intern-hospital preferential matching to be rolled out across the country as part of a centralised approach to training.
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