Pre-registration Graduate of the Year

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Name Sulapha Manaim
Pharmacy Paydens Pharmacy, Larkfield, Kent
Award won C+D Pre-registration Graduate of the Year 2011
Award entry An MUR directive that has been implemented across the 95 pharmacies in her company, alongside the development of a stop smoking service at local secondary schools and medicine adherence work with patients with traumatic hip fractures,
What the judges said "Sulapha is clearly acting in the best interests of patients to develop solutions to local health issues. Peer recognition and acknowledgement is a testament to her excellent start in her career"

If you want to do something, you need to make it happen yourself – this is the mantra of this year's C+D Pre-registration Graduate of the Year. Sulapha Manaim is reaping the rewards of a pre-registration year well spent. She is now working at Paydens head office and providing training to pharmacists who are many years her senior, after she proved herself before she even passed her registration exam. But she still makes time to work at the branch that provided her with the opportunities that led to winning her C+D Award.

Ms Manaim's pre-reg supervisor Steve Gabell is unsurprised by her success, and thinks her attitude clinched the top prize. "It is the type of person she is: she is very forward and will take something up and work on it without a second thought," he says. This was demonstrated by a number of campaigns Ms Manaim worked on throughout her pre-reg year.

Keeping all bases covered

By far the most impressive work done by Ms Manaim has been the development of a scheme to ensure that pharmacies were targeting as many high-risk patients as possible for MUR services.

To make sure this happened Ms Manaim worked with Paydens pre-registration manager Barrie Smith to target a particular high-risk patient group – for example methotrexate users – for a month at a time.

She also developed MUR prompt cards and patient information leaflets to be used throughout the month by all staff. She then started training pharmacies in the Paydens group that had less successful MUR rates than others.

One area she focused on was ensuring that counter staff were involved. "I went in to see the pharmacists and provided training, particularly to the counter staff, to get everyone involved in providing MURs and recruiting patients," Ms Manaim says.

She has gone on to develop this with the company as it was an area that was deemed to need improving by her supervisors. "It was an area where – as a company –  people were doing MURs but very general MURs and it was something that we could take forward," she says.

Advice for other pre-regs

Ms Manaim is quick to encourage future pre-reg pharmacists to make sure they take the initiative to go out and get any experience they want.

"No one is going to sort it out for you so if it is something you want to set up go out and do it," she advises. "And do it early, as when it is all in motion that is fine, but from April you will want to be picking up your BNF and revising," she adds.

She also encourages people who want to enter the C+D Awards to do so – "don't be afraid to sell yourself and tell them what you have done", she says. You should also use statistics to back up your statements, Ms Manaim advises. "Show you have got results from what you have done. If you have created a new service and helped people, don't say that you have helped people – say that you have helped 50 people. You need to show you and community pharmacy have made a real difference."

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How to be an award-winning Pre-registration Graduate

Entry to the C+D Pre-registration Graduate of the Year 2012 award, sponsored by AAH, is now open. Could it be you?

Making the transition from classroom to frontline practice can be a big step for pre-reg graduates. But the best students make it look effortless, as they combine their clinical knowledge with a steely determination to deliver services that make real differences to their patients.

The winner of this award isn't just your regular pre-reg; he or she will have set themselves apart from their peer group with their drive, ingenuity, ideas and commitment to make a difference to their community. Tell us what you have done and why, how you did it and what youhave learned from the experiences that will help you in your future career.

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Reflect     Do I know how to perform my role as pre-reg tutor to best effect for me, my trainee, my staff and my pharmacy?
Plan     Consider how I can maximise my role as a pre-reg tutor.
Act     Identify actions to kick-start or improve my pre-reg tutoring.
Evaluate    Do I know how to perform my role as pre-reg tutor to greater benefit for me, my trainee, my staff and my pharmacy?