PRP FAQ Series: Community Pharmacy
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In this series, ex or current Provisionally Registered Pharmacists (PRPs) will share their experiences in respective industries across the pharmacy landscape in Malaysia. This article will be focusing on PRP-ship in community pharmacy. Let’s be real: before entering pharmacy school, all you knew about pharmacy was from observing community pharmacists. Oh and of course, paracetamol....
Malaysia’s MOH Contract Pharmacists: Stuck in Limbo?
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Background & History of Contract Pharmacist System in MOH Ever since 2016, the Malaysian government started employing doctors, pharmacists and dentists on a contract basis with pharmacists being hired by contract as provisionally registered pharmacists (PRPs) for one year (with a maximum one-year extension) and thereafter, as compulsory service for another year. A third-year contract...
PRP FAQ Series: Pharmaceutical Industry
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In this series, ex or current Provisionally Registered Pharmacists (PRPs) will share their experiences in respective industries across the pharmacy landscape in Malaysia. This article will be focusing on PRP-ship in the pharmaceutical industry. Thinking of embarking on the path less taken? While liberalisation of PRP-ship took flight in October 2012, the number of PRPs...
Salary & Benefit Schemes: Contract VS Permanent Pharmacists – Is This What We Want ?
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The plight and disparity between contract and permanent pharmacists have always been a buzz. But when it comes down to the exact difference in terms of career progression, remuneration and the prospects of job security, are you actually aware and informed of what actually draws the line between contract and permanent pharmacists? Provisionally Registered Pharmacist...
PRP FAQ Series: Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH)
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In this series, ex or current Provisionally Registered Pharmacists (PRPs) will share their experiences in respective industries across the pharmacy landscape in Malaysia. This article will be focusing on PRP-ship in the government sector ie in the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH). PRP-ship in the government sector has come a long way. In recent years,...