This course will give students support to:
- encourage pharmacists to join the PDA
- be confident when talking about the PDA
- learn more about your role as a PDA Representative.
The course includes written articles, soundbites and videos to go through. Each section ends with a quiz to check your understanding. There is also a learning log document and an action plan for you to complete.
On completion of the course and action plan, you will be eligible to attend further courses in the PDA reps training programme.
This course also includes regular live drop-in sessions where you can meet other student reps and talk to PDA staff.
Feedback on this course
“I believe that the real life experiences were inspiring.”
“Easy to understand and a good mixture of reading and videos.”
“Gave good understand of the PDA work.”
Pathway
Prior to this training, you will have a discussion with your PDA student organiser about the role you are interested in and if the role and the training is appropriate.
Following this training you will be invited to undertake a live online workshops for reps including ‘Introduction to being a PDA Rep’, ‘Confidence in meetings’ and ‘Conversations that count’.
We also offer some sector specific workshops for reps that your PDA organiser will advise you of. You will also be invited to the PDA reps 2 day face to face training in Birmingham.
To apply for any of the reps courses, please email [email protected]
Please note that this FREE course is for PDA members only. If you are not yet a PDA member and wish to join, you can do so below.
Not yet a PDA member?
If you have not yet joined the PDA, we encourage you to join today and ask your colleagues to do the same.
Membership is FREE to pharmacy students, trainee pharmacists and for the first three months of being newly qualified.
Read about our key member benefits here.