Agenda Developing

a culture of self-directed workplace learning in pharmacy By Barry Jubraj, Joint Programmes Board (south east) lead for tutor support and lead pharmacist for academic studies, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacists at the front-line recognise thepressure to evaluate what they need toknow in order to practise safely. We are required to keep up-to-date as individuals and, as a profession, to develop a workforce that is fit for purpose. One answer to the same issue in medicine has been expressed as fol-lows: “Overall, the medical profession needs to recognise the sanctity of workplace learn-ing throughout doctors ’ careers: life-long, self-directed learning (SDL).”1 Learning in and from practice has always played a fundamental part in the preparatio