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Pharmacy creates management scholarships

23 November 2005

The Victorian College of Pharmacy has created a scholarship to help trainee pharmacists develop their management skills.

Mr Bill Suen, course director of the college's Pharmacy Management Program, said the scholarship meant employers could retain highly motivated staff, and those staff could develop relevant job skills with full financial and professional support.

The scholarship will pay for professional development training at the college or other pharmacy training organisations.

The first recipient is trainee pharmacist Ms Jo Nguyen (pictured), who is employed at a retail pharmacy in Seaford, Victoria.

Under the program, Ms Nguyen will receive full financial support for course fees while she studies next year to obtain her Home Medicine Review accreditation and Wound Care certification.

Mr Suen said the scholarship provided extra opportunities for high achievers to further develop their management skills. "Once her clinical training is completed, Jo will join the Monash Pharmacy MBA program in 2007," he said.

Ms Nguyen said the scholarship would allow her to gain clinical, hands-on experience. "I will be able to apply what I learn in my work in the community," she said.

The scholarship, which is offered to pre-registration trainee pharmacists, was proposed and funded by Melbourne community pharmacist Mr Mark Feldschuh.