Leaving university and embarking on your first role in the workplace can be a scary experience.
Perhaps it is no wonder then that such a high proportion of pre-reg trainees are finding placements in multiple optical practices with heavy back office support.
Latest studies documented in the following pages confirm this, although they are matched by healthy endorsements for starting out at independent and hospital settings too.
Wherever your pre-reg scheme is completed, reacting to the working environment can present a challenge in its own right.
But beyond the tea runs and 9am starts there will be patients to see, new people to work with and the arrival of assessors at your doorstep.
It means that finding the right support, whether at scale or at a standalone practice, is vitally important.
Optician clinical editor Bill Harvey also has your back, providing his extensive survival guide the all three stages of pre-reg at the back of this supplement.
And that is why Optician has made the Workplace The Pre-reg Year an annual fixture, distributed free with our magazine, to make sure talented young optometrists achieve the smooth transition they deserve.
