Volume 3, Issue 2: March/April 2014 by UF APhA-ASP

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

TH E MO NTH LY P RES C RIP TIO N “Making a difference... Through Excellence with Love”

American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists Spotlight:

Spotlight:

Recap:

Acknowledgments

Annual & Global

Life on Rotations

Events in ORL

& Contact Info

Health Outreach

Events in GNV

Page 1-3

Page 4

Page 5-7

Page 8

Page 9

APhA Annual Meeting danielle bley, 2PD

On March 28th, 2014, over one hundred UF COP students met pharmacists and fellow students from around the country in Orlando, FL for APhA’s Annual Meeting. To commence this weekend of learning, leadership, and recognition, UF COP students were recognized as the strongest political donors at the Political Leadership Reception. UF COP was also awarded six other major awards listed to the right. Our very own national leaders, JT Fannin and Mika Fujinaka, presented us with several of these awards.

Aside from the recognition, students attended workshops on everything from maximizing HIV therapy to leadership development. APhA Annual also provides a unique opportunity to network with students from other schools. In addition, Dean Julie Johnson hosted a “Dean’s Night In” exclusively for UF COP affiliates to mingle and celebrate our college’s growing success. The UF APhA-ASP Chapter looks forward to future Regional and National Meetings with this incredible group of Gator pharmacists.

National PAC Fundraising Award – 1st Place National Chapter Professionalism Award National Operation Diabetes Award -1st Runner-Up Region 3 Operation Heart Award Region 3 Generation Rx Award APhA Foundation Scholarship Award – Joe Haley APhA Student Leadership Award – Amy Kiskaddon

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

FDA S P O T L IGH T ! Arielle Gabarda, 2PD

Former Chapter President of the UF APhA-ASP Chapter at Gainesville Campus, Roya Tran, is glad to share her U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experience with UF APhA-ASP! This Associate Management elective held in Washington, D.C. was based on the FDA’s Regulatory Affairs of Public Health, where she had the very unique opportunity to gain exposure to regulatory affairs and approval process. She learned about the different parameters considered by the FDA when making these decisions, as well as about operations ran under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). From this experience Roya was most happy to learn about public health and global matters, along with the opportunity to build relationships with many FDA associates. She highly recommends every student pharmacist to step out of his or her boundaries in order to experience unconventional professions, outside of the pharmacy, as any national internship will promise our UF student pharmacists a great experience.

LEG I S LAT IV E: A 2 PD EX P LA I NS THE P A C Anthony Pierre, 2PD

As student pharmacists, an increasing area of focus has been advocacy and raising awareness among politicians about the role of pharmacy in health care. One of the ways that our APhA-ASP chapter does this is by participating in the APhA "Back the PAC" Competition. This program is focused on raising funds that will support candidates running for federal office, who have shown support for pharmacy issues. Students leaders from all four campuses set out to raise as much money as possible through innovative fundraising events. One such event was the Mr. COP pageant, where students got the opportunity to show off their talents through professor impersonations and comedic talent. In addition, we reached out to University of Florida alumni for donations towards the PAC. Our hard work was recognized at the 2014 APhA Annual Meeting when the University of Florida won the “Back the PAC” Campaign for the third consecutive year! Over seventy colleges of pharmacy from around the country participated. This campaign truly showed the influence that student pharmacists can have on their profession.

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

T IM E A B R O AD : F R O M TW O P ERSP ECTI VES Anthony Phan, 2PD

During this past spring break, I had the honor to go on the Project Audiology Global Health Outreach Trip with eight other pharmacy students, Dr. Normann, and audiology students. During the trip, we saw over 1,000 patients, and I became very proficient in taking patients’ blood pressure and blood glucose levels. Using my very limited Spanish knowledge that was acquired from high school, I was able to counsel, in Spanish, on their medications and any problems or questions that the patients had. At the end of the day, what I really learned from this experience was that we are very fortunate to have accessible healthcare and be educated about our health. Patients would literally would wait in line for hours and hours just to see us, and this may be the one time every year they get any medical attention. This trip has made me really grateful and humble.

Tina Wang, 2PD

Over Spring Break 2014, I had the wonderful opportunity of experiencing my first global health outreach trip to Nicaragua, which was coordinated through UF College of Pharmacy APhAASP IPSF. During this trip, we spent most of our days visiting rural villages and providing medical care along with medications to these patients. Surprisingly, some of our patients’ first experiences with health care came from the services our group provided. Even so, I am glad that we were able to play a beneficial role in these patients to improve their quality of life in any way possible. In addition, it was a great chance for us to practice our Spanish speaking abilities, improve on our pharmacy counseling skills, and learn more about the Nicaraguan culture. I would highly recommend attending one of these trips to anyone and wouldn’t trade my experience for anything.

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

ROT A T I ON I NT ER V IEW Q&A with a 4PD out on rotations What is the rotation? Formally, it was titled International Health Systems, but we called it the PharmUK trip because we went to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

What is your job as a student pharmacist on this rotation?

Learn about pharmacy practice and pharmacy education in different countries. In our case it was in Ireland and the United Kingdom, specifically England and Scotland. We attended a conference for the International Federation of Pharmacists (FIP). We also visited hospital pharmacies, community pharmacies, and different colleges of pharmacy in each area so that we could compare and contrast pharmacy practice to the United States.

What do you love most about this rotation? With the changing state of our healthcare system, I think that it is really fascinating to look at more socialized systems like the National Health Service and see where our system could be heading. It was incredible to learn and explore in a new country too.

! What is something you wish you knew before going on rotations? !

What are your future career plans? PGY-1 residency and then a clinical pharmacist position.

Did your rotation year change your future career goals? (If yes, then how so?)

! ! If there any other information/advice/story about your rotation that you would like to add? !

It did not change my career goals, but it motivated me to become more involved in advocacy for our profession.

I think it is a truly unique experience to travel to a different country and learn about pharmacy practice and education. I would highly encourage it for anyone debating about going.

! ! ! Amanda Small, 4PD

How expensive it would be for all the gas. I had to drive about an hour for most of my rotations so that added up pretty quickly.

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

DI A B ET E S AL ER T Stephanie Shore, 1PD

Each year, the American Diabetes Association promotes a nationwide Diabetes Alert Day, with the intent of giving the public a "wake-up call" about their risk for developing type 2 diabetes. To show our support, Operation Diabetes held our own Diabetes Alert screening in the UF Health Shands Atrium on March 25th. We had over 50 patients participate in our blood glucose screening. Diabetes Alert is designed to motivate high-risk individuals to take charge of their health and make preventative lifestyle modifications. The event is geared towards the one in three Americans, or 79 million adults, who have prediabetes. Thank you to the UF Diabetes Center for Excellence for partnering with us, along with the students who volunteered their time. We hope that we raised awareness about type 2 diabetes while encouraging high-risk individuals to make positive changes in their lives while time is on their side!

IP SF MI G RA N T WORKER HEA L TH FA IR L UNCH & L EA R N Jessica Cunio, 2PD

Every year for the past several years, the College of Pharmacy has been involved in putting on several health fairs for the migrant farm workers who cycle through Gainesville in April for blueberry season. Unfortunately though, this is not a program that is well known among the faculty and students of the college, even though it is a wonderful opportunity to serve at an event where we have the ability to provide interdisciplinary care to our patients (with the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and the Physician’s Assistant Program). Therefore, this year we decided to hold a Lunch & Learn event for the students of the College of Pharmacy to spread the word about the health fairs. This event also served as a platform to kick-off our donation collecting campaign. Two of the ladies from the Migrant Education Project and the Rural Women’s Health Project came to speak to the students about the life and challenges of a migrant worker and what ways we can help through these fairs. This event was a huge success – we had an excellent turnout (including some students from the College of Medicine) and we were able to inspire a lot of people to participate in the fairs!

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

BE A P H A R MA C IST F OR A DA Y P RESENTA TI ON S Michelle Palmer, 1PD

When people think of entertaining children for a couple hours, some may cringe at the thought. However, all the student pharmacists who participated in the “Be a Pharmacist for a Day” presentations at the elementary schools in Gainesville would tell you otherwise! The extent to how much the children knew about pharmacists ranged from “farmers” to a person knowing all the different types of allergy medicine. Either way, every kindergartener learned something new and had fun doing so! They understood why a pharmacist was important in the community and that they can approach one at any time when they needed help. The kids also enjoyed pretending to be pharmacists. They dispensed “pretend medicine” by carefully counting one by one and doublechecking, as a real pharmacist would. One of the more interesting parts was when they compounded medicine composed of Vaseline and food coloring. Some enjoyed the mixing, while others couldn’t get passed the smell. If I could pick one population underserved by pharmacists, I would say it would be the pediatric community. The “Be a Pharmacist for a Day” presentations are a great way for pharmacists to increase awareness among children, and I hope it is a program that stays around for a long time!

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

P OI S ON PR E V ENT IO N Tina patel & Alex Ozuna, 2PD

As Poison Prevention Chairs, Alex and I were very excited to continue on the legacy of promoting awareness to elementary school children in the greater Gainesville area. Our goal was to educate the children about unintentional poisonings and accidental exposures in or around the home. We were ecstatic to host these events during March due to the fact that the 2014 National Poison Prevention Week was from March 16-22, during which one of our many events were hosted. We would not have been successful without the help of the forty-three dedicated and enthusiastic UF COP student volunteers. Together, we promoted poison prevention and awareness at three different elementary schools, to twenty-nine different kindergarten and first grade classes, to a grand total of five hundred and eighty children! The schools included Idylwild, Chiles, and Terwilliger Elementary Schools, all of whom provided a great reception to the student volunteers. During the event, the children watched “Spike’s Poison Prevention Adventure Video,” an engaging 11-minute puppet show, after which they actively participated with volunteers playing games and identifying poisons from non-poisons. They were also provided poison prevention coloring books and spider rings as take home gifts so that they could remember what they learned during their interactive day and share it with their family and siblings. We hope the future of Poison Prevention will be just as exciting as it has been in the past!

IPS F TO BACC O C E S S A T I ON & A P H A - ASP T O B AC C O AW AR ENESS

On March 12, 2014, APhA-ASP IPSF Tobacco Cessation and APhA-ASP Tobacco Awareness teamed up to provide Pharmacy students with a valuable class on Tobacco Cessation Patient Counseling. Dr. Patti Haywood, a University of Florida graduate and a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist, gave students an overview on the dangers of smoking followed by a timeline of benefits associated with quitting. Students also learned some helpful tips on motivational interviewing in order to inspire patients to stop smoking. Dr. Haywood emphasized the empathetic approach when dealing with tobacco users to prevent them from feeling judged. Using this technique, patients would be more receptive to probing questions by pharmacists, leading to a greater acceptance of pharmaceutical care. The Lunch and Learn educated over thirty student pharmacists on the resources available to help patients with tobacco cessation, including where to find free nicotine replacement therapies for underprivileged patients. the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

OR LA ND O C A M PU S EV ENTS

Annual APhA-ASP/FSHP Volleyball Tournament

Jessica Andrews, 1PD

On April 5, 2014, APhA-ASP and FSHP joined together and held a volleyball tournament at Gaston Edwards Park for the Orlando campus. There were five teams that participated. It was a day for student pharmacists to spend time together, enjoy the sun, and participate in some friendly club competition. Everyone brought their families and pets to enjoy a little break from studying. We were able to welcome the 4PD class back from rotations, as they participated in the event as well. Partial proceeds of the money raised from this event will be donated to a charity decided by both APhA-ASP and FSHP, while the rest of the money will be shared between the two organizations. This volleyball tournament was a great event that brought two of the biggest organizations on campus together.

Hispanic Business and Consumer Expo

! !

Jessica Andrews, 1PD

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014

the global health edition, university of florida, gainesville campus

ACK N OW L ED GM ENT S

Want to be featured?

Want to be featured in future issues of the Monthly Prescription? It’s easy! Just send a paragraph description of your event along with a few pictures to the following e-mail addresses: robn825@ufl.edu tschenley@ufl.edu

Special thanks to all of our authors and contributors! We are incredibly appreciative of your hard work and your timely submissions!

Acknowledgements

Taylor Schenley

Robin Derby

Anthony Phan

Newsletter Editor:

Editor-in-Chief

Communications

Format & Design

tschenley@ufl.edu

robn825@ufl.edu

anthony.phan@ufl.edu

the prescription Newsletter • volume 3 • issue 2 • March-April 2014