Pharmacy Interview!!

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Name three drug delivery systems

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What does MRSA stand for?

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Name three ways we isolate/discover drugs

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Name a prescription only medicine (POM) and what it does

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Why does insulin have to be administered intravenous only?

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A long division question

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Name some drugs which you will find exclusively in a hospital pharmacy

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What is insulin?

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If a patient wants to take insulin orally, what must be done to the drug? (Hint: dosage form)

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What is antibacterial resistance? How does it occur?

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What can one do to prevent resistance?

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Would you prescribe a patient who is suffering from flu antibiotics? Why?

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What functional groups give certain properties to a molecule?

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Name three ways a pharmacist helps to promote health in the community

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Have you read anything interesting in the news recently related with pharmacy?

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Why do you want to study Pharmacy?

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What skills does a pharmacist need/have?

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What particular subject in pharmacy interested you?

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Where in the profession do you see yourself in 10 years time?

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What's the difference between Medicine and Pharmacy?

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Why Reading and not a university in London?

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TWO mental arithmetic question e.g adding things together that are in diff units e.g .3ml + 30ml + 3L

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Tell me about your work experience.

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What part of chemistry do you enjoy and why?

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Tell me what you know about pharmacy?

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Why Hertfordshire?

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What skills do pharmacists require?

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Name 3 ways in which pharmacists' promote healthy living in the community

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If you were a qualified pharmacist now, what one thing would you like doing and dislike doing?

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Why Liverpool?

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Which subjects other than science do you study that may be helpful when you are a pharmacist?

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What is your other favourite university after LJMU? And why?

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What qualities must a pharmacist have?

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Talk about how the heart works.

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Give a way in which a drug may be administered.