4.3 Performance standards
The performance standards are a list of 76 performance outcomes which must be signed off by your pre-registration tutor.
There are three units of performance standards, covering:
- Personal effectiveness
- Interpersonal skills
- Medicines and health
The standards are statements of what the GPhC expects you to be able to do and how you should behave if you are to register as a pharmacist. You must meet the standards consistently in order to be assessed as competent in them.
You will find more information in the Performance standards section.
4.4 Standards for initial education and training of pharmacists – required outcomes for pre-registration trainees
These are the outcomes that pre-registration trainees are expected to either know how to do, show how to do, or do competently to meet the level expected of a newly-registered pharmacist. They are linked to the units of the performance standard that they are most likely to demonstrate, but they may apply to other units too. You will find the outcomes (from section 10 of the education standards) in the Performance standards section.
Performance standards have to be met ‘in an appropriate way’ or ‘appropriately’. Your pre-registration tutor is responsible for using their professional judgement to decide whether a particular action or behaviour is acceptable.
If you do not meet a standard to the satisfaction of your tutor, they should explain to you why this is so. If you don’t understand or agree with their evaluation, you should ask them for more information.