Don’t panic! What to do if you’ve failed the pharmacist registration exam

Zhyar Said reflects on what to do once you’ve received your registration assessment results – regardless of whether you got the outcome you wanted

Zhyar Said: "It’s hard to imagine now, but everything tends to work out in the end"

While running RevisePharma, a platform that educates trainee pharmacists, I have been fortunate enough to support students through many results days. The excitement from hearing of other people’s triumphs never gets old, and the empathy for the students who weren’t as successful never weakens.

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