Information For OSPAP Students Having A Teams Interview

The University of Sunderland School of Pharmacy
Information for Students undertaking an online OSPAP interview

2022/23
Every student joining the OSPAP programme at Sunderland must undergo a
face-to-face interview in order to adhere to the General Pharmaceutical
Council’s new educational standards. This can be carried out online.
The interview consists of three parts: a numeracy test (link emailed 24 hours
before), a few questions based around an ethical case study/scenario and a
discussion around a commonly used drug, which is carried out via Microsoft
Teams.
The numeracy test link will be emailed to the student approximately 24 hours
prior to the interview, allowing the student to attempt all 10 questions online
within 30 minutes and be able to discuss them during the Teams interview
with a Tutor from the Practice Team. The types of questions that will be asked
will incorporate logical maths questions and chemistry related questions, see
examples below:
1. A 6yr old has been prescribed Amoxicillin 125mg/5ml at a dose of 5mls to be taken
three times a day. The prescriber has asked for 100ml to be supplied, how many
days will this last the patient?
5mls 3xday = 15mls per day 100 /15 = 6.6
Therefore this bottle will last 6.6
2. How many moles are there in 5g of NaCl? (Mr =58.5)

Using the equation n = m/M
n (number of moles) = 5/58.5
n = 0.085
When answering the questions please use only numbers and decimal points in
the appropriate place. Your answer should NOT include commas (e.g. should
be 10000 and NOT 10,000) or units (e.g. should be 30 and NOT 30mL).
Numeracy is an integral part of the OSPAP programme and is assessed where
the pass mark is 70%. This is in line with the registration exam which also
requires 70% to be achieved in order to pass and therefore qualify and register
as a pharmacist.
The link to the test is a secure one personal to you and should not be
forwarded on to other people. If you do, you will be unable to access the test
and forfeit that part of the interview. The link can only be used once, and you
must submit your answers by clicking on the black arrow at the bottom of the
questions. Therefore, make sure you are ready to complete the test when you
use your link.
Ethical scenarios or case studies are asked during the Teams interview to
assess a student’s personal behaviours rather than academic capabilities. We
also look for an awareness of what the student understands of professional
behaviours, in other words how they may be expected to behave both as an
OSPAP student and as a pharmacist.
The student is given a scenario and asked a series of questions based on this, in
order to determine how they would behave or what they would say in any
given situation. There are no right answers to these types of scenario, and we
do not expect the student to do any preparation beforehand, merely to answer
the questions in an honest way and to be themselves.
For example:
You are working as a pharmacist in a small manufacturing unit making unlicensed products
(under the exemption for licensing in the Human Medicines Regulations 2012). Your
manager, who is also a pharmacist, tells you that the company is currently experiencing a
reduction in orders and the management are currently looking at ways in which the
company can save money. As part of this process, the Company is going to start using
ingredients for products which are not pharmaceutical grade in their quality. He asks you
what you think about this. He mentions that unless the Company can save money it is likely
that they will have to start making some people redundant. Since you are one of the last
people to be employed by the Company, he warns you that you are likely to be one of the
first to be considered for redundancy.
This seems at first glance to be going against good manufacturing practice, which is totally
unacceptable. Gather the facts… are they allowed to use non-pharmaceutical grade
ingredients in the manufacture of their products? Pharmacists must adhere to the standards
for pharmacy professionals… they must make patients their first concern and if using non-
pharmaceutical grade ingredients makes substandard products, then this is not in line with
expected practice and could carry severe consequences.
Does the company have a redundancy policy for their staff? Is it appropriate that the
manager is threatening them with redundancy? Are there any other ways in which the
pharmaceutical company could reduce costs?
A Commonly used drug will be discussed with the tutor to check your clinical
knowledge. Questions will be asked scientific information about the drug and
how it is used to treat patients. As you are already a qualified pharmacist in
another country you should have knowledge of medication and its use.
Therefore, as per the previous section of the interview there is no real
preparation for this.
For example: Paracetamol
Can you give two counselling points to a patient who may be prescribed this drug?
Can you think of any medicines (either over the counter or on prescription) which should not
be taken with this drug?
Once the above has been discussed with the Tutor, the student can then ask
any questions they may have about the programme, we will be happy to
answer any queries they may have, this gives the student an excellent
opportunity to find out more about the programme should they wish. The
whole process should last no longer than 40-50 minutes.
The student will then be informed of the outcome of the interview via email.

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