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IT would be pretty easy to guess what pharmacy graduates are thinking these days: “When can we do our Provisionally Registered Pharmacist (PRP) training?” PRP is the job position for graduate pharmacists in the first year of working, either in hospitals, retail pharmacies or pharmaceutical industries. In other countries like Singapore and Britain, the term used is “pre-registration”.

In order to be a licensed pharmacist, all pharmacy graduates must undergo this first year of training. When we decided to study pharmacy four to five years ago, we did not know that demand for pharmacists in Malaysia would be reduced so badly to the point where most of us would be left unemployed.