[Consilio Et Animis]

(Original post by petzneo)
Ok, send the document to me and then I will have a look, fix it up if needed and then pop it up on the pharmacy guide. If its ok with you and everyone else, I'll have it done on Sunday or possibly Saturday

Thank you so much for offering to help out, I know that people will really appreciate it! Are you at university now?

I've PMed you

No prob, I'm not at uni yet. Applied for 2011 entry and have offers from Manchester, Notts and Aston so far.

[petzneo]

(Original post by Consilio Et Animis)
I've PMed you

No prob, I'm not at uni yet. Applied for 2011 entry and have offers from Manchester, Notts and Aston so far.

Hey, do you think you can send it again as my inbox was full!

Sorry

[simone_12]

(Original post by koop)
Clearing out my email inbox and stumbled on to a 'few' possible interview Q's I got from various threads on TSR so I didn't do any of this.
So if it's cool i'm gonna put them here before deleting them. (you might find a few identical ones and if its just words in some cases it was stuff I was looking into)

Tell me about yourself?

What is this interview about?

What area of our course content interests you the most?

Please tell me about a current issue in the media relating to pharmacy?

Please talk about a current controversial issue regarding pharmacy, and your personal opinion towards it.

Can you tell me about a controversial drug in the media?

Why is organic chemistry important to pharmacy?

Which science is most important in pharmacy and why?

What do you enjoy about the courses which you are currently doing?

Do you know anything about any common drugs (e.g. NSAIDS and Paracetamol), how they are made, how the work within the body, issues with the drug?

Who will bear legal and professional responsibility for the actions of pharmacist prescribers?

Who will be responsible and liable for the actions of supplementary prescribers?

Why should pharmacists be able to prescribe medicine?

What is your opinion of prescribing powers for pharmacists?

Will a pharmacist be able to both prescribe and dispense a prescription?

How do Antihistamines work?

Which of the antihistamines cause drowsiness?

Can you name some Non-sedating antihistamines?

What is meant by a profession?

What is an anti-fungal?

Why are pharmacists important in the health service?

What does a pharmacist do? What will you be expected to do at the end of the degree?

Where do you see yourself in this profession?

What is the role of the primary care pharmacist?

What skills do you need to be a pharmacist?

What are preventative medicines and there importance?

What would you take into account when prescribing drugs to a patient?

Why are drugs stored in particular ways in a pharmacy?

What is a medication?

What is a Generic Drug? Reasons for cheaper price?

When can a generic drug be produced?

What is a prescription drug?

What is the differences between hospital, community and industrial pharmacy?

What area in pharmacy do you wish to enter and why?

What is palliative care?

What’s diabetes?

Why can't insulin be taken as a pill like the other medicines and hormones?

What other method of administering insulin?

What do you know about Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus - an antibiotic-resistant infection?

Name three drug delivery methods and explain each of them?

What are a metered-dose inhaler and a spacer?

Please explain dosage of inhalers compared to tablets?

Where do drugs come from?

Please explain the difference between a generic and branded drug?

What do you think you will learn over the next four years?

Please name three medicines?

When was penicillin invented?

How does penicillin work?

The future of pharmacy. Please continue.

Why not medicine or dentistry if you like healthcare and people?

What is the role of the pharmacist?

What is the difference between pharmacology and pharmacy?

Why do old (out of date) eggs float in water?

What’s the difference between antibiotics and other medicines?

What is a drug overdose?

Please explain nuclear magnetic resonance?

What is Herceptin? How effective is it? Why is it controversial? What did Nice recommend? What were the legal battles? How will extending provision affect the NHS?

How do you feel about drug trials? Northwick park trials, what happened? What are drugs trials and how are they organised? Who gives permission for them to go ahead? Who takes part in such trials? Do people know things could go wrong? How common are problems such as those seen in this trial? What have experts recommended future trials?

What are Paracetamol and NSAIDs? COX-2 inhibitors? Opiates and morphinomimetics?

Please explain the synthesis of aspirin.

Are industrial pharmaceutical companies out to produce medication for patients in need or are they just out to make a profit?

In hospital pharmacy, what do you understand by a "clean room"?

What is pharmacology?

Draw/Write a chemical reaction involving a drug and the body?

Tell me about the different drugs you would expect to find in a hospital setting in comparison to community?

What do you know about radiopharmaceutics?

Draw a benzene

What does the circle inside it indicate?

Draw a methyl group, aldehyde etc......

Talk about latest news in pharmacy

Where do you see yourself in this profession?
Please tell me about a current issue in the media relating to pharmacy?

Draw a general Amino Acid.
What is a protein?
What reaction makes proteins from amino acids?
Draw a section of a protein.
What is the name of the link between individual amino acids?
Name a drug that is also a protein.
How is this drug administered?
What other ways could it be administered?

What are some challenges that pharmacists face?

What roles do you see pharmacists taking on in the future?

Why should we pick you over other qualified applicants?

Looking at your application, we can see that you’re very involved with extracurricular activities. Do you think you can handle balancing extracurricular activities with pharmacy school?

You’re in a group and you think the group is heading in the wrong direction, how would you voice your opinion? And can you give an example where you handled a similar situation?

acid reflux and cytotoxic drugs
erythromycin enteric coated tablets
drug classes
role of pharmacists in society

pharmacists getting prescribing powers, and what services pharmacists could offer people to take pressure off GPs

Q's on proteins e.g. why are they good at binding, why are proteins better at being drugs than small synthetically made molecules, examples of protein drugs (not including insulin), how you could synthetically made proteins

Why Pharmacy?
What other health-care professions had i considered studying/entering?
Did i enjoy my work-experience and what did i learn from it?
Talk to me about a drug that is/has been in the news recently?
how patches work
why patches are used?
when are patches used?
when you would choose to inject a drug and when you would choose to give drugs as a pill?
where drugs come from?
Why is pharmacy considered as a profession?

a) why pharmacy?
b) a mental arithmitic question (i had what is 7% of 500)
c) what did you learn during your work experience?
d) what does a pharmacist do? (talk about the new contract, cholesterol + diabetes testing in community pharmacies etc)
e) what area of pharmacy do you see yourself working in?
f) how is the role of the pharmacist changing? (again talk about the new contract)

Wow all this is making me panic...are there a set of answers for these questions?

[El Nin0]

Hi Consilio could you PM me your answers as well please...I've made answers to a lot of them myself but I don't really know how correct they are because some of the questions seem quite silly

Thanks!

[K.H]

Hi there

As a prospective pharmacy student I'm finding this all pretty daunting...
Could you please PM me the answers ?

Also do they tell what theyre going to ask before the interview ? Because receiving all that on the day would be nearly impossible to answer just from AS/A2 knowledge.

Thanks

[Ilovecake]

(Original post by K.H)
Hi there

As a prospective pharmacy student I'm finding this all pretty daunting...
Could you please PM me the answers ?

Also do they tell what theyre going to ask before the interview ? Because receiving all that on the day would be nearly impossible to answer just from AS/A2 knowledge.

Thanks

Don't be too worried about this, they won't ask you all the questions posted here

The interview depends on the Uni, but for me they sent me a letter saying either that they would/wouldn't ask me about biology (as it is one of my subjects), chemistry and some pharmacy based questions.

I would also recommend doing a little research on pharmacy in general (so community, hospital, industry, drug delivery systems etc), but don't worry about that until you get interviews. Also remember that many unis don't interview at all.

Good luck, and hope this helped

[K.H]

(Original post by Ilovecake)
Don't be too worried about this, they won't ask you all the questions posted here

The interview depends on the Uni, but for me they sent me a letter saying either that they would/wouldn't ask me about biology (as it is one of my subjects), chemistry and some pharmacy based questions.

I would also recommend doing a little research on pharmacy in general (so community, hospital, industry, drug delivery systems etc), but don't worry about that until you get interviews. Also remember that many unis don't interview at all.

Good luck, and hope this helped

Thanks alot ! I've done a fair amount of research into hospital and industrial pharmacy because thats what i want to go into, I'll probably read more during the summer holidays and the application process.

What unis did you apply to/get offers from if I may ask ?

And also I would greatly appreciate if anybody had the answers to these, would be really helpful not just for the interview but the actual course itself.

Thanks !

[Ilovecake]

(Original post by K.H)
Thanks alot ! I've done a fair amount of research into hospital and industrial pharmacy because thats what i want to go into, I'll probably read more during the summer holidays and the application process.

What unis did you apply to/get offers from if I may ask ?

And also I would greatly appreciate if anybody had the answers to these, would be really helpful not just for the interview but the actual course itself.

Thanks !

I applied to Bath, Cardiff, Aston, Nottingham and Reading, got offers from them all except Nottingham (I withdrew my application). Bath is my firm, Reading is my insurance.

I'm afraid I don't actually have the answers, I just researched the questions a bit before my interviews. Good luck

[K.H]

(Original post by Ilovecake)
I applied to Bath, Cardiff, Aston, Nottingham and Reading, got offers from them all except Nottingham (I withdrew my application). Bath is my firm, Reading is my insurance.

I'm afraid I don't actually have the answers, I just researched the questions a bit before my interviews. Good luck

Congrats on your offers any particular reason why you withdrew the application from nottingham ? What grades/subjects did you get at AS/A2 ?

I live 20mins from Reading, an hour and 15mins from Bath and an hour from KCL and london school of pharmacy so ive got a good location ( Berkshire )

I'm going to apply to aston, reading, KCL, bath and UEA/nottingham. I've only just finished AS, expecting AAAB/AAAA from biology,chemistry,physics and maths respectively. My teachers have told me theyre expecting me to get AAA/AAB at A2. ( Dropping physics )

If I can sort out some work experience ( finding it a bit tricky atm, the big usual companies dont want underaged people in their retail outlets ) I hope i'll be fine. Gonna face the £9000 though :/

[Ilovecake]

(Original post by K.H)
Congrats on your offers any particular reason why you withdrew the application from nottingham ? What grades/subjects did you get at AS/A2 ?

I live 20mins from Reading, an hour and 15mins from Bath and an hour from KCL and london school of pharmacy so ive got a good location ( Berkshire )

I'm going to apply to aston, reading, KCL, bath and UEA/nottingham. I've only just finished AS, expecting AAAB/AAAA from biology,chemistry,physics and maths respectively. My teachers have told me theyre expecting me to get AAA/AAB at A2. ( Dropping physics )

If I can sort out some work experience ( finding it a bit tricky atm, the big usual companies dont want underaged people in their retail outlets ) I hope i'll be fine. Gonna face the £9000 though :/

Thanks Not really, just realised I didn't want to go there even if I got an offer, and couldn't really be bothered to go there for the interview. Also I completely fell in love with bath, and really liked reading, so my choices were already sorted

At AS I got AAAA in bio, chem, french and history. In the January exams I got AA in bio and chem, and an A in history coursework (bear in mind most of these, except chemistry, are just As). I'm hoping for A*AA (my predicted grades), expecting AAB or lower since I'm really not sure how bio or history went

I found the best way to get work experience was to just keep phoning them up eventually someone nice picks up and gives you work experience (I did 2 weeks in a local Boots) Also, maybe write down some things you learn about Pharmacy while you're there, it really helps for the interviews.

Poor you lot for £9000, its really unfair never mind, you will be a rich Pharmacist who can pay it all off in a year. Maybe....

[K.H]

(Original post by Ilovecake)
Thanks Not really, just realised I didn't want to go there even if I got an offer, and couldn't really be bothered to go there for the interview. Also I completely fell in love with bath, and really liked reading, so my choices were already sorted

At AS I got AAAA in bio, chem, french and history. In the January exams I got AA in bio and chem, and an A in history coursework (bear in mind most of these, except chemistry, are just As). I'm hoping for A*AA (my predicted grades), expecting AAB or lower since I'm really not sure how bio or history went

I found the best way to get work experience was to just keep phoning them up eventually someone nice picks up and gives you work experience (I did 2 weeks in a local Boots) Also, maybe write down some things you learn about Pharmacy while you're there, it really helps for the interviews.

Poor you lot for £9000, its really unfair never mind, you will be a rich Pharmacist who can pay it all off in a year. Maybe....

Good luck and dw, AAB is totally respectable and its the requirement for Bath anyway isnt it ? I was so glad to finish all the non science subjects at GCSE... Can't imagine doing a further 2 years of english, just no way.

I've got all the open days coming up soon, will make my mind up by then, but kings college is really appealing cos of the reputation, history and location.

And yeh, hopefully by the time i'm a consultant i'll be rolling in the dough
I've got a feeling that something bad is going to happen to the education system in the next 2-3 years. Like a huge collapse in quality, student numbers etc..
Luckily for some degrees especially pharmacy, its a worthwile investment with a great return.

[K.H]

(Original post by Consilio Et Animis)
I've PMed you

No prob, I'm not at uni yet. Applied for 2011 entry and have offers from Manchester, Notts and Aston so far.

Hi there, would it be possible for you to PM me the answers to these questions ?

Much appreciated.

[Consilio Et Animis]

(Original post by K.H)
Hi there, would it be possible for you to PM me the answers to these questions ?

Much appreciated.

PM me for any specific questions and I'll help you out. You'll probably never be asked half the stuff on there

[K.H]

From the earlier posts i saw you posted someone else the answers, just resending that particular email is plentiful, I'm not even in the application process yet so I'm not too concerned just yet I'd just to like have a start into looking at the questions and topics i need to research, any help, any answers to questions which you feel are the most relevant are most welcome.

[K.H]

(Original post by Consilio Et Animis)
PM me for any specific questions and I'll help you out. You'll probably never be asked half the stuff on there

From the earlier posts i saw you posted someone else the answers, just resending that particular email is plentiful, I'm not even in the application process yet so I'm not too concerned just yet I'd just to like have a start into looking at the questions and topics i need to research, any help, any answers to questions which you feel are the most relevant are most welcome.

sorry messed TSR quoting got messed up

[Ilovecake]

(Original post by K.H)
Good luck and dw, AAB is totally respectable and its the requirement for Bath anyway isnt it ? I was so glad to finish all the non science subjects at GCSE... Can't imagine doing a further 2 years of english, just no way.

I've got all the open days coming up soon, will make my mind up by then, but kings college is really appealing cos of the reputation, history and location.

And yeh, hopefully by the time i'm a consultant i'll be rolling in the dough
I've got a feeling that something bad is going to happen to the education system in the next 2-3 years. Like a huge collapse in quality, student numbers etc..
Luckily for some degrees especially pharmacy, its a worthwile investment with a great return.

I know, literally hated English Yeah, I would be happy with AAB, but my history teacher would be really disappointed since he genuinely thought I could get an A*

Kings does sound lovely, I was scared of it though because its in London

Well hopefully that won't happen, but it may well do, especially for degrees that don't lead to jobs (unlike Pharmacy, which is clearly the best ) My friends who decided to take a gap year are also kicking themselves now!

[Consilio Et Animis]

(Original post by K.H)
From the earlier posts i saw you posted someone else the answers, just resending that particular email is plentiful, I'm not even in the application process yet so I'm not too concerned just yet I'd just to like have a start into looking at the questions and topics i need to research, any help, any answers to questions which you feel are the most relevant are most welcome.

sorry messed TSR quoting got messed up

Oh that actually never worked out cuz I didn't know how to attach the doc
I will try and PM you some of the stuff via copy pasting ergh hassle but most of it is comprised of links to relevant sites. I don't just go round PMing it to everyone because they should do some of their own research too

[K.H]

(Original post by Consilio Et Animis)
Oh that actually never worked out cuz I didn't know how to attach the doc
I will try and PM you some of the stuff via copy pasting ergh hassle but most of it is comprised of links to relevant sites. I don't just go round PMing it to everyone because they should do some of their own research too

Thanks alot, yeh of course, I'm not attempting to sit back and leech off everybody else I just want to get some background knowledge since none of this is to do with the academics we have at school, it's all pharmacy specific.

[K.H]

(Original post by Ilovecake)
I know, literally hated English Yeah, I would be happy with AAB, but my history teacher would be really disappointed since he genuinely thought I could get an A*

Kings does sound lovely, I was scared of it though because its in London

Well hopefully that won't happen, but it may well do, especially for degrees that don't lead to jobs (unlike Pharmacy, which is clearly the best ) My friends who decided to take a gap year are also kicking themselves now!

London makes me buzz haha, i'm stuck in the poshest place in the country - its not a bad place in any way, its just that most of the people are so similar ( Upper class, spoilt etc ) London is a nice mix up of all types of backgrounds and characters.

At the end of the day though, theyre your grades and you're doing it for yourself, if hes disappointed but you're happy then tough
And pharmacy rocks, basically for me its everything medicine offers without any of the drawbacks ( Working 12-16hr shifts, 5+2+4 YEARS before reaching just GP level.., having to diagnose all kinds of ehm unpleasant stuff ... )

[Ilovecake]

(Original post by K.H)
London makes me buzz haha, i'm stuck in the poshest place in the country - its not a bad place in any way, its just that most of the people are so similar ( Upper class, spoilt etc ) London is a nice mix up of all types of backgrounds and characters.

At the end of the day though, theyre your grades and you're doing it for yourself, if hes disappointed but you're happy then tough
And pharmacy rocks, basically for me its everything medicine offers without any of the drawbacks ( Working 12-16hr shifts, 5+2+4 YEARS before reaching just GP level.., having to diagnose all kinds of ehm unpleasant stuff ... )

Don't worry, I know Although if I just miss out on an A I will be annoyed

Haha yes although we will still have to deal with the people with the "unpleasant stuff" ...