Annual Bulletin 2012-2013

IPSF Annual Bulletin Issue 42

August 2013

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ipsf Since establishment in 1949, IPSF now represents more than 270 000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in over 70 countries worldwide.

IPSF is the leading international advocacy organisation of pharmacy students promoting improved public health through provision of information, education, networking, and a range of publication and professional activities.

content Messages from IPSF

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Individualized Pharmaceutical Care Page 6

Pharmacogenomics: A Novel Approach in Achieving Personalized Pharmaceutical Care Page 11

The Challenge of Individualized Pharmaceutical Care: The Need of an Interdisciplinary Education Page 13

Achieving Quality Individualized Pharmaceutical Care: Begins with Interdisciplinary Education Page 17

FIPEd-IPSF Student Learning Experience Questionnaire Page 20

Personalized care: Impact of Vitamin D Polymorphic Variants on Body Parameter Page 22

Gaining The Confidence of The Patient: The Key to Individualizing Pharmaceutical Care Page 25

Contacts Page 27

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Ms.IPSFAlexandra Marques Chairperson of Media and Publications Publication Editor

Mr.IPSFFahmi Fuady Phuture Coordinator Reviewed by

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Ms. Yuqian Liu [Editor-in-Chief ] Chairperson of Media and Publications publications@ipsf.org Editor-in-Chief editor@ipsf.org

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Mr. Radoslaw Mitura, President 2012-13

Life is A Rollercoaster Have you ever thought that you were going to slow down with your life and eventually what happened was only the opposite?

Well, welcome to the IPSF World!

This year has been pretty busy. I was lucky to have the entire team ready to start working at the end of the 58th IPSF World Congress. We took off immediately with lots of energy and enthusiasm.

As the 1st IPSF Executive Meeting took place in the first half of October very soon we aligned ourselves with the main objective: to take first steps to build a strong Federation that is known for its professionalism, efficiency and qualitydriven outcomes.

Quality, in any endeavour, does not just happen. It is, rather, the result of hard work and learning, and hand-in-hand with learning goes communicating.

By taking organisational outcomes into consideration, we have created a feedback system that together with effective planning for monitoring & evaluation form the Quality Assurance (QA) System for IPSF projects. Such a unique administrative initiative happens for the first time in the long and astonishing history of the Federation.

The IPSF Leaders in Training programme has been

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reorganised as the pilot project for our first QA attempt. The further plan entails undertaking majority of IPSF projects, one by one, to go through a similar revision and develop first of all new strategies accompanied by relevant implementation, monitoring & evaluation plans.

It shall also be applied to development of new initiatives and improvement of the QA System itself as the Federation learns.

Not only quality matters, but also continuity of safe and effective working does. In seeking to formulate a systematic approach to organisational development the best approach is a comprehensive one that takes all elements into account. Effective communication is important in all organisations when a task and its associated responsibilities are handed over to another

Handover does not only happen after the new team has been elected, but it is prepared all year long.

The current Executive Committee has established a file storage tool that enables files to be uploaded for future reference so a full package can be ready to be passed onto a succeeding team. We have developed an environment of building necessary guidelines and keeping them updated at all times, also sticking to one principle rule – before a new initiative is started there must be full guidance available for the leadership to run it. Yet all the Executive Committee members are getting ready to transfer the knowledge onto the next generation. Also a training-based approach to the handover would be implemented which together with a postponed date of taking on the office should give a proper base for a knowledgeable take-off of the 2013-14 mandate.

have successfully built our internal capacity for professional advocacy efforts to be undertaken in the near future. Our Policy Committee, soon to be established, shall focus on the task of development and implementation of IPSF policies to respond to global challenges in health, health education and workforce strategies. Regardless of kind of work we have come up with this year the priorities were the same – quality, sustainability,

and thoughtfulness, and this is what we have given to this Federation with the best of our true commitment.

Rollercoaster I say? The thing is that when you seem to have finished your job and life lets you breathe for a short moment, sooner or later a steep descent comes again. Achieving one of the objectives could only allow you to see one more, and one more. Then you again need to speed up with your work. Are these descents bad? Are these hills bad? Not really, as reflecting back only they bring one closer to the future foreseen for the Federation one loves. In the end, don’t we all like rollercoasters?

From numerous of other major developments, we

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person or work team. This is the reason why one of this year’s priorities has been the establishment of a comprehensive handover system that would prevent from losing knowledge during transition periods.

Ms. Angela Sester, Secretary General 2012-13

From Archives to Zanzibar Beloved IPSFers,

Looking back on my mandate 2012-13, raises emotions from incredible heights and unforgettable moments with greatest friends, but also reminds about sleepless nights and exhaustion.

chance to look behind the scenes of Dutch Hospital Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Industry and Amsterdam’s nightlife.

Having the Office next door, we moved straight from Amsterdam to The Hague to hold the first Executive Meeting. For many team members it was the first time visiting the IPSF Archives in the attics of the FIP Office, where we can feel the spirit of IPSF’s history between folders packed with founding documents, minutes and applications for the Student Exchange Programme, which were still sent via postal mail until the year 2004.

This year’s travels started in October with the Centennial Congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) in Amsterdam. As participant in the FIP Centennial Student Package (organised by IPSF, EPSA and KNPSV) I had the

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The second Executive Meeting in March gathered overall 14 of 15 Executives for 10 days together in The Hague. This was one of the most challenging but also fruitful weeks during this mandate. Many proposals to restructure different portfolios were discussed.

Not only being in the assembly hall for hours, listening to statements being presented, translated into 6 different languages was a special experience. Moreover the feeling that all these different cultures were seeking for a joint way to face future challenges for healthcare worldwide, was a genuine affirmation that IPSF’s vision and spirit cannot only be found in dusty archives, but is the base for intra- and inter-professional collaboration.

Finally, it was my pleasure to attend the 2nd IPSF African Pharmaceutical Symposium, including the Leaders in Training pre-event, where 200 students could learn and improve their knowledge., while feeling the African rhythms and enjoying the wonderful hospitality of the Tanzania Pharmaceutical Students Association (TAPSA).

Whenever on the train or travelling – time management required to use these couples of minutes to type. These travels lead me for example to Basel, Switzerland, following the invitation of the Swiss Pharmaceutical Students Association (ASEP) to their National Pharmacy Student Weekend, including a Medicine Awareness Campaign on “Antibiotic Resistance” in the streets of Basel. The following destination was the Team Meeting of the European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (EPSA) in Berlin, Germany.

Attending the 66th Executive Board Meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Health Assembly (WHA) were the occasions that led me to the multicultural city of Geneva, Switzerland.

Before I travel to the Netherlands for the 59th IPSF World Congress, I will complete the AfPS Post Symposium Tour at the wonderful setting of the spice island Zanzibar. Here is where I can feel the magic of IPSF again.

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Follow-up on an Executive Meeting and the General Assembly means for the Secretary is typing minutes! This task was my company for those following two months.

Ms. Veronika Sochova, Treasurer 2012-13

One Cannot be Satisfied with Work without First Satisfied with Life It has been another year for me as the Treasurer, and looking back I can say that the year has been challenging in life and in work.

sought to accomplish many goals and objectives and planned for great things, but I realized as time went on that such plans are harder gained than sought.

Yet at the same time, we only live just once, that is why it is extremely important to be happy with not only with our work but with life as well.

The first challenge of the year was that our previous bank that we have used was taken over by Deutsche Bank. This made our financing difficult as the change brought about many logistical issues and I had to reorient IPSF’s financial matter in relation to the new terms and regulation of this new bank. However, after careful studying of the matter, and discussion with the IPSF Executive Committee, we have agreed to eventfully change IPSF’s account to another bank that is more favorable to the banking need of the Federation.

This process is still ongoing, but hopefully it will be resolve in late August.

With these thoughts, I would like to share with you my feelings and work throughout this year.

During 58th IPSF World Congress in Hurghada, Egypt, I was elected to complete the second year as the IPSF Treasurer. As the year started I had

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The overriding objectives for me as the IPSF Treasurer were to stabilize the financial situation, expand income and to craft a budget that suit the Federation’s needs.

The second challenge that IPSF faced was that the accounting firm that had previously looked after auditing is now costing IPSF beyond our means.

Thus, as a team, we sought to seek another accounting firm, but due to the time constraint to finish this year’s financial report, we had to use the

Both of these challenges led to unexpected expenditures, but I do like to report that I have there were some important progress as well.

The trouble of the PayPal account of IPSF is now resolved, where the funds were locked as the

much support in creating sponsorship letter and packages. These materials are valuable for the work and sponsorship opportunity that lie ahead.

I had the opportunity to negotiate and order the mechanizing and printing material of this year as well.

Lastly, I wish to say that with the growing IPSF Regional Offices, and the growing quality and quantity of work that IPSF provides, it is my wish that the budget crafted for the next year will suit the needs of IPSF’s needs now, but also where the Federation will be strategically in the future.

Personally, I feel very lucky to be a part of IPSF, as it is not only composed of duties and task, but with also the opportunity to meet new friends and be supported by others when you feel alone. I am very happy that I could be part of this great family.

name registered was the previous IPSF Treasurer from the years past. Also, with much thanks the IPSF Executives who were in constant contact with FIP, we have come together to sign an official financial agreement that defines the support that IPSF gets from FIP. These two achievements helped greatly in stabilizing their financial outlook for the next few years.

I also had to pleasure of working with the sponsorship committee and also with the IPSF Executive Committee members who provided me

Thanks to this family, I have survived all the difficulties that I have faced at work but also my personal life. I have graduated as well, and have started to work as a Pharmacist.

I hope the work that I have done for the 2 years as IPSF Treasurer will lay a solid foundation for IPSF and be secured financially. Not only that, I hope that IPSF will grow stronger, day-by-day, monthby-month, and year-by-year. These two years were the most challenging but also the most memorable years of my life.

Vive la Pharmacie!

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same accounting.

Ms. Dayl Eccles, Chairperson of External Relations 2012-13

Viva, viva, viva year will allow for future growth after my term ends.

As the Chairperson of External Relations of IPSF for 2012-2013, I can say it has been an experience unlike any other. Having previously served IPSF on my school level, as the National Project Co-ordinator for the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists (USA), and the Regional Relations Officer of the Pan American Regional Office, I can say it was a privilege to serve on the Executive Board.

When I began this position at the 2012 IPSF World Congress in Hurghada, Egypt, I intended on expanding IPSF’s capacity in the realms of membership, partnership, and sponsorship. This task has proved to be a demanding one, but I am glad to say the year was spent taking steps to prepare the Federation for future support and expansion. My hope is that the work done this

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I had the privilege of attending several meetings this past year primarily to explore potential partnerships with IPSF. These meetings included travel to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. in the United States, Geneva, and multiple locations within the Netherlands. I was able to attend the World Congress site visit in Utrecht, Drug Information Association Europe Conference in the Netherlands, and the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

It was a pleasure to put the faces to names of people I was in contact with via email throughout the year,

members to create and present an intervention on the pharmacist’s role in global health workforce strategies truly made me feel that IPSF has a great opportunity to make an impact.

Our membership has expanded with the gracious work of the Membership Promotion Committee (MPC). I am grateful for their work, and their ability to adapt to changing structure and procedures to make the MPC more efficient at completing its tasks.

Associations. I also established contact with additional potential partners, including drug information companies and World Health Organizations.

The greatest experience I have had with this organization was the ability to attend the World Health Assembly in Geneva. With my passions for public health and policy on a global scale, it was an honour to attend and even become involved in the experience. Working together with other IPSF

Though my own duties were my primary focus, a large part of my time also had to focus on supporting the IPSF Executive Committee.I can’t say how thankful I am to the fellow members of the Executive Committee for their work and their support of my own work, no matter how stressful or difficult the tasks may have seemed to be.

When we look back, I hope every one of us feels a sense of accomplishment, even though our hearts always wish we could have done more.

Viva, viva, viva IPSF.

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including representatives from European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association and International Federation of Medical Students’

Ms. Maroua Ben Mbarek, Chairperson of Internal Relations 2012-13

They are My Family, Team, Friends…

Simply IPSFers Thomas Kempen.

Later on I became the Contact Person (CP) of my national association ATEP and it didn’t stop there, I was eager to get more involved with IPSF. I was also a member of three IPSF Sub-committees.

What I loved the most about being a CP was the Email account. It was like my sweet escape to the international world, a world of pharmacy students without borders.

I’m Maroua ben Mbarek, Chairperson of Internal Relations. I’m From Tunisia, a small country located in the North Africa.

When I Look back at the past few years, I cannot believe that I have made it this far and achieve this much.

My involvement with IPSF started two years ago when I attended the World Congress in Thailand.

That was where I came to know the Federation.

I still remember the first session of the GA, handling voting cards, placing the Colombian flag on the table (when Colombia joined IPSF) and handing, multiple times, the microphone to the tall guy from the Netherlands who happens to be this year Chairperson of the World Congress, Mr

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As my mandate as a CP was coming to its end, I started thinking of taking a bigger step to enhance my involvement with the Federation by applying for the position of Chairperson of Internal Relations.

My main task as a chairperson, was to coordinate between the Executives and the member associations, I was very busy sending all the notifications, questions, queries, reports,

At the end, I would like to thank my executive team) for being there for me when I needed help.

My family, thank you for believing in me and for the support throughout this year. I wouldn’t dream of a better family.

As I started my mandate, I wanted to follow up on CPs opinions and idea expressed during the World Congress at the CP workshop. The first thing was to try Google Hangout as a tool for CP online meetings. The idea was proposed by Miss Yuqian Liu, The former CP of APhA-ASP. Hangout gave a more interactive way to communicate that was much better than Skype.

During the year I held two CP meetings, one in November and one in June. There were multiple sessions with 3-7 CPs at a time some of them using Skype others on hangout. The sessions were extremely productive, fun and interesting.

The first CP meeting brought ideas for a change.

The huge amount of emails that CPs receives each day (activity reports from other CPs, IPSF announcements and goodbye emails from former CPs) was one of the causes leading to the decrease of CP’s activity in the groups.

New guidelines for using IPSF e-groups were implemented after taking into consideration all the comments and suggestions presented by CPs and Executives.

A lot of things were achieved this year. I can say that CPs and Executives were making it happen for real.

No matter how extended the team was, what is important is to have a committed team and an organized way to communicate.

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materials, etc. to the right persons. My presence to the e-groups was 24/7, since every email had to be read and moderated, before appearing in the e-groups. Coordinating 82 CPs was not always easy, but I feel blessed for the opportunities to work with everyone.

Ms. Joana Carrasqueira, Chairperson of Student Exchange 2012-13

My Experience as the Chairperson of Student Exchange Dear IPSFers!

Today I’m writing to all of you directly from my home country, Portugal. Being involved in IPSF as Chairperson of Student Exchange has been an adventure for me, and I assure with any tear of doubt that so far this has been the best year of my life!

I started my mandate full of motivation and willing to drive change, which I’ve found is not easy especially in a portfolio so well established as Student Exchange.

to perform an internship on FIP – Ed at UCL School of Pharmacy. My internship lasted until the end of May, so almost half of my mandate I was doing my personal kind of “SEP”. Therefore I can tell you on a first person that I highly recommend to embrace a new experience, living on your own and meeting people that you will be in touch all lifelong.

Back to Portugal, this experience was an extra point in my CV when I applied for my first job, and currently I am working for the Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society.

A big team works very hard all-yearlong to assure that our students are provided with a rewarding experience through Student Exchange Programme.

From London, I went to ANEPF’s GA in Nantes where I perceived the truly spirit of the World Famous French GAs! I was given the opportunity to conduct a SEP workshop with SEO Amalia Droal, and CP Lucas Besson both from ANEPF. Meeting the students is the best part of my job, because they ask directly their questions, give feedback regarding the program, and of course the social part is always funny.

Each nation is different and this is the main reason that leads SEP to be the huge success that it is. Students are keen to experience pharmacy education from a different perspective, challenging themselves on the competitive global market. And I did the same.

Later on I went to BPSA’s Annual Congress and there with the amazing help of Lily Chong (SEO and CP from BPSA), we conducted a presentation regarding international opportunities. The session was very dynamic and in my opinion one of my favourite workshops ever!

Starting in January, I moved from Lisbon to London

IPSF gave me a new family with many friends

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This year, under Big Sister Programme, we helped some associations establish SEP in their countries.

I would like to congratulate the efforts of SEC members, who were always present, and the hard work developed by the SEOs from Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Palestine, Zimabwe who embraced this job splendidly.

longer than I expect, yet, as they are now prepared I’m hopping these materials will still be used and surprise all of you.

Managing IPSF, FIP, master thesis and personal life wasn’t an easy job, but looking in retrospective to my mandates, I will miss online meetings, queries, pressure, EMs in The Hague, but mostly to have the happy feeling of doing something for all pharmacy students to enjoy.

I am glad to have had a chance on IPSF, something that I will never forget or live something similar.

To IPSF, to IPSF, Viva la Pharmacie!

Furthermore, SEP placements have increased in many countries, nevertheless in others, mainly due the financial crisis present in Europe, this increase was not possible. As the political and economic scenarios are changing SEP has to be reinvented in some countries to be still a programme that engages students, so my advice is to be creative and try new partnerships on a local and national level.

I wasn’t able to conduct all the goals for my mandate as for example Online Trainings needed to be adjusted to IPSF’s needs and collecting materials to provide proper information took

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from all over the World, and working for IPSF is very demanding, however when you have a team reunite in The Hague is something meaningful.

With ups and downs as all families we manage to succeed, always thinking about student’s benefits.

Ms. Alexandra Marques, Chairperson of Media and Publications 2012-13

Moving forward Dear IPSF’ers, dear readers, dear friends, It’s with great pleasure that I write for the first time in the IPSF Annual Bulletin. It seems quite odd to me that it has been almost three years since I began being involved with IPSF, and that now, after an amazing and tiring year, I say goodbye to my dear Media and Publications portfolio.

It was 2011 and it was my first time attending an IPSF World Congress. I was an Official Delegate since I had been Contact Person that year, and from the moment I stepped in the General Assembly in Thailand I knew I had come to stay! I absolutely fell in love with the Federation at that point. I had been involved with other student organizations before, at local, national and European level, but had never seen anything like this! In IPSF, the whole World is brought together by what we have in common, instead of broken apart for what we don’t. And it’s the most amazing feeling ever, that someone can only understand after being involved.

Last year, at the IPSF World Congress in Egypt, I was again an Official Delegate. Together with the other delegates of the Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto (AEFFUP, Portugal), we presented a bid to host the World Congress in 2014. I was so happy

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when we won, all I could think was that so many students in Portugal would have the opportunity to feel the spirit! Being elected as Chairperson of Media and Publications was also a huge highlight for me, and it brought me so much happiness this year.

The Media and Publications portfolio is really extensive – it covers basically every other portfolio, project and event, it involves working with the Regional Working Groups, and to me it is one of the most important ones.

The Chairperson of Media and Publications is the responsible with keeping all communication channels flowing and making sure that all that comes out to the members, potential partners and general public is consistent, coherent with the IPSF “personality”, aim and professionalism, and most important of all, making sure it’s pretty!

My biggest project for the year was creating

and Publications with design tasks and who will chair the Design and Creativity Sub-committee (to be implemented next year)2; Merchandise Co-ordinator, who will be responsible of ordering new materials and maintaining the IPSF Online Store (to be implemented next year).

Throughout the year I worked with wonderful people that really made me feel inspired to do more. In the Executive, and as a Permanent Officer, I learned so much about IPSF! A really big thank you to all Executive Committee members for all the great moments, and a special one to Mr. Radoslaw Mitura (President), Ms. Angela Sester (Secretary General) and Ms. Joana Carrasqueira (Chairperson of Student Exchange).

I also restructured some parts of the portfolio, by creating clear guidelines to the positions, rearranging them and and creating some new positions – Blog Manager, responsible with maintaining and improving the IPSF Blog; Intellectual Property Editor, a member of the Editorial Board who makes sure that all communications do not transgress any intellectual property rights; Design Co-ordinator, who will be assisting the Chairperson of Media

Also, I need to acknowledge the people that worked with me in my portfolio made it worth it!

A huge special thanks to Ms. Yuqian Liu (Editor-inChief ), Mr. Khaled Mostafa (Marketing Co-ordinator), Mr. Jason Hong (Blog Manager), Mr. Fahmi Fuady (Design and Creativity Sub-committee Member and Phuture Co-ordinator) and many others who worked so hard this year!

I will forever remember this year and the people who I shared it with.

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a new branding strategy and compiling it to a branding document that will create a fresh, exciting, consistent image throughout all the communication channels and publications.

Although I didn’t manage to compile it into a final document, I have created brand new logos and templates for everything you might think of, making design decisions much easier and opening the possibility for easy task delegation within the design teams.

Mr. Marouen Ben Guebila, Chairperson of Pharmacy Education 2012-13

Education Comes First A standardized education for all The year is about to finish. It has definitely been a year full of challenges and achievements, a great number of new initiatives and progress. IPSF’s Pharmacy Education had its part of improvements at all levels. Whether it is the launching of Phuture magazine in its new editorial line or the implementation of extracurricular pharmacy education training in world congress, with the aim to standardize the global education, Pharmacy education will continue to progress from year to year. This year, the global certification for pharmacy studies saw the light after tremendous efforts of certification organisms and FIP. There is one pharmacy education, the education that allows future pharmacists to assure a better healthcare for all patients and to ensure their safety. But there are different “cultures” as I once said in the editorial of the Pharmacy Education Newsletter, another innovation in PE this year.

Each country, school, and university has its own way to teach, in order to orient the students for particular specialties where pharmacists are most needed in a particular economic situation.

It is true that the strategic heath care plans made by a country’s politicians orient the education of pharmacists, nevertheless, a standardized pharmacy education is the only way to assure

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the versatility of pharmacists and unify them around the same ethical commitments. This is not an objective that governments should take care of. It is ours. IPSF, FIP, UNESCO with its bioethics committee and other NGOs are the organisations that have the necessary global overview to direct the future of global health strategies.

Since 1954, IPSF brought pharmacy students together, and year after year we learned from each other, we built our own experience, we shared our thoughts and opinions, and we opened our mind to what is different from us.

I will not go through what have been done this year, but I will try to draw your attention to IPSF’s main objective as imagined by Sydney J Ralph.

Raising young people in the values of peace and acceptance is certainly what IPSF does the best.

Attending only one IPSF gathering can simply change your life and makes you a true citizen of the world.

I had this feeling when I was invited to the French premiere of “Rising from ashes” at UNESCO. The documentary by Mr. Forrest Whitaker, UNESCO ambassador of peace, tells about the story of a young cyclist in Rwanda who qualified to the Olympic Games thanks to the help of a coach who come overseas to help them because he believed in their dream. Although the connection is not easy to make with what we do, the story underlying the frames is perfectly in accordance with what IPSF was built on: the values of peace, friendship and acceptance.

innovation. Just counting the tremendous number of ideas and projects I received from students in 10 months of duty, I can only see a brighter future for our federation.

Finally, I would like to thank you all, students from all around the planet, IPSF execs, co-ordinators and sub-committees members for making this incredible venture coming true, and I wish them all much happiness and success as they head out into the world.

The “Phuture” is ours.

A major scientific discovery IPSF is also a protein – The Immunoglobulin Production Stimulating Factor. The federation has always been a factor of stimulating creativity and

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela

Ms. Hager Ben Mosbah, Chairperson of Public Health 2012-13

My Experience as Chairperson of Public Health Dear IPSFers , This year has been an exceptional year full of incredible experiences and nice encounters.

I had the chance to be a part of a great team and surrounded by supporting friends. Being able to work with such motivated people allowed me to bring changes and encouraged me to move forward.

We started off the public health year with a very clear vision of what the sub-committee has to work on. We wanted all the member-countries to get an easy and reliable access to the information related to our different campaigns. One of our main goals was to ensure that they can easily conduct as many awareness as possible in their local communities.

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Thus, all public health co-ordinators worked on updating their respective campaign kits.

We have also merged all the public health databases into one unique Public Health database. This allowed the members to access the new campaign kits, get updates and news about public health on one unique webpage.

In addition, a mini project was added to each one of the public health campaigns. Social media campaigning worked out to be a very efficient way to alert the public, to convey a message to the maximum number of people with the minimum of costs and expenses. For example, the TB twitter competition conducted in February was a real success and gathered more than 1200 followers on Twitter.

This year, we had the chance to include an internship co-ordinator on the team. This new position was certainly needed in order to settle a database for the internships IPSF can offer and to bring in more internship opportunities.

The progress that we have made throughout the year would have never been possible without the help and the hard work of all the Public Health Sub-committee Co-ordinators and members.

I have been lucky to count on such engaged people.

During the last World Health Assembly that was held in Geneva from 21st to 28th of May, we had the chance to present 2 statementson behalf of IPSF to the World HealthGeneral Assembly. The first intervention dealt with counterfeit drugs and the second one with the Health workforce.

I believe that reshaping the structure of this sub-committee will certainly enhance us to work better in terms of advocacy, humanitarian work and global health. It will permit us to have new means and develop our full potential. This restructuring is needed in order to ensure longterm projects and the quality of our work within the Public Health Sub-committee.

This year has been a life-time changing experience. It was hard to balance between the different internships and my work for IPSF. I had some very busy times but it was all worth it.

Being an executive member of an international organization such as IPSF taught me a lot both on a professional and on a personal level. I had the chance to meet different people, learn about new cultures, but also get an insight of how an international organization functions, as well as insight of the World Health Organization and learn about current Global Health issues.

There are an increasing number of pharmacy students who are interested in Public Health advocacy. This has been proved by the great number of students who have applied and attended the World Health Assembly on behalf of IPSF last May. Pharmacy students from different parts of the world met in Geneva, attended different sessions and meetings during WHA and gathered to work on the IPSF interventions mentioned above.

Looking down the future, I believe that the IPSF Public Health Sub-committee has a lot of potential to develop great projects, on a national and international scale, especially when it comes to public health advocacy.

I am looking forward to see the Public Health Sub-committee evolve and IPSF advancing in Global Health advocacy. “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.�

-Pauline R. Kezer

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Not only have we worked on a local and national level, we also tried to bring our voices onto a global scale.

Mr. Eric So, Chairperson of Professional Development 2012-13

A Beautiful Race As with all other Executive Committee Member, we all set vision of what our portfolio can be, goals of what we can achieved, and the desire how our work can bring meaningful change. I, Eric So, have been lucky to have started this beautiful race back in 2009. So this is the moment to highlight the amazing achievements of the Professional Development (PD) Team of 2012-13.

IPSF African Pharmaceutical Symposium (AfPS), Arusha, Tanzania, the 12th IPSF Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium (APPS) Tokyo, Japan, and for the 59th IPSF World Congress in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I had the immense pleasure to run the workshop and also to invigilate the competition. To complement PCE, we also have Clinical Skills Event (CSE). This year, we have developed a CSE Jeopardy, a quiz-show style team event for different teams to compete live in front of the participants of the 59th IPSF World Congress. This competition is the final addition to the CSE repertoire of competitions and a fun addition to the Pharmacy Olympics.There was a preliminary round and 4 finalist teams from different countries that competed for the title as the first champion of CSE Jeopardy.

In addition, we also have CSE Team Competition,

The Pharmacy Olympics As with every year, IPSF continues to strive to stimulate and challenge the current and future pharmacy students to be better trained and experienced. Continuing nearly 20 years’ worth of Patient Counselling Event (PCE) history, PCE again is the cornerstone in the Pharmacy Olympics of IPSF. PCE was held during the 2nd

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where a team of 4 shall solve a more structured and thorough case with multiple drug related problems.

During the completion, the teams

received relevant clinical data and also have a chance to interview the patient as to mimic real clinical practice. Much thanks to Ms. Johanna Walz, CSE Co-ordinator, who have helped in organizing CSE.

This is a brand new event in the history of IPSF. Its purpose is to provide an opportunity for future pharmacist insight, skills, and know-how for compounding. To initiate this event, a workshop about compounding by an invited speaker, and also the 1st compounding competition were held at the 59th IPSF World Congress. The 1st winner for the Compounding Event was crowned there as well.

Campaign Award was given at the 12th APPS in Tokyo, Japan. The Asia Pacific Regional Office and its member associations have been striving to improve the pharmacy profession, and for the third year selected PPAC as their focus project. To cumulate such perseverance and drive, the 1st IPSF Asia Pacific PPAC Award was developed to motivate students. Much thanks to Ms. Catherine Brown, PPAC Co-ordinator who had developed and organized this event, and also for Teddy Bear Hospital workshop and World Pharmacist Day tool kit as well.

And of course, talking about inspiration, the amazing participants of LIT comes to mind.

This year there were LIT with every regional symposia and world congress. Ms. Lyna Fichouche, LIT Co-ordinator, and I thank all the participants and trainers for their hard work. Good Job! Final Reflections

Star System The most exciting development was the initiation of the Star System for Accreditation of IPSF Professional Development Events.

It works by having all IPSF events and PD events organized by our member associations eligible to for IPSF accreditation. This will be a long road, but a road worth travelling to increase the relevance and professionalism of IPSF and Professional Development Events.

Pharmacy Profession Awareness Campaign and Leaders in Training It is also with much pleasure that the 1st IPSF Asia Pacific Pharmacy Professional Awareness

This beautiful race has been tremendously joyful, humbling, and fruitful for the 6 years that I have been with IPSF, 1 year as PCE Co-ordinator, then CSE Co-ordinator, 3 years as Chairperson of PD, with the last year also as the Vice President of IPSF. There are no words that can be written in the here that can express the deep satisfaction of hard work, toil, tears, sweat, sleepless night, frustration, good times and bad times, which have made this such a monumental journey.

I wish that the future generations will take what has been done and lead the federation to even greater achievements that await us all. Deep thanks the awesome teams of IPSF since 2009, especially the Executive Committee of 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2012-13. I shall remember everyone fondly in my heart. Vive la Pharmacie!

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It is also my pleasure to present the 1st Compounding Event Competition.

Mr. Thomas Kempen, Chairperson of the 59th IPSF World Congress

59 IPSF World Congress: A Chairperson’s Story th

There is a small document on my laptop dated June 2009: “First brainstorm to organise the IPSF World Congress”. What started as an idea more than four years ago is now finally here- The 59th IPSF World Congress, Utrecht, the Netherlands!

After a period of relative silence, we really started working on preparing our bid towards the end of 2010. The Reception Committee (RC), consisting of twelve Dutch pharmaceutical students,was formed and potential accommodations, venues and main sponsors were contacted. Eventually in July 2011 we went to the congress in Thailand with 100 bid books, 200 huge orange sunglasses and 1000 stickers. During the presentation of the bid, I was really nervous, but luckily we were elected!

After the election, we started with the organisation: A logo and a website were created. Our acquisition officers contacted many companies and organisations for sponsorship; the symposium officers invited the first potential workshop speakers and the events officers started arranging the social events. Next to that all transportation options were sorted out.

In August 2012, we visited the 58th World

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Congress in Egypt, where we could learn from our predecessors. We brought a lot of promotional material and presented our current plans and promotional video. At the GA, the main theme of the congress was approved: ‘Global Healthcare for the Individual Patient’. Next to that the GA voted on the themes of the two symposium days.

After the approval of the themes, our symposium officers could work on the speakers together with the newly elected Chairperson of Pharmacy Education. After a lot of work, in the end the following speakers were confirmed: Scientific Symposium ‘Personalised Medicine’: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Steinhausen (Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany), Prof. Dr. Meindert Danhof (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Gordon McVie (European Institute of Oncology, Italy), Dr. Anke-Hilse Maitland-Van der Zee (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Michel Eichelbaum (Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Germany) and Dr. Anke Hövels (Utrecht University, the Netherlands).

Educational Symposium ‘Developing Pharmaceutical Care through Collaborative Practice’: Prof. Dr. Ralph Altiere (University of Colorado, USA),

Executive Committee Prof. Dr. Ian Bates (University College London, United Kingdom), Martine Ruggli (Pharmasuisse, Switzerland), Prof. Dr. Fred Schobben (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Hugh Barr (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) and Anna Alassaad (Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden).

In January 2013 the registration opened. We had only around 400 places for the congress and promised up to 3 ODs per association, so regular participants had to be fast, and fast they were. Within the first hour after the registrations opened we received more than 100 applications, all of whom were from Slovenia, Taiwan, USA or Portugal. Within 12 hours we received a total of 236 registrations!

World Congress facts and numbers Dates - LIT: 26 – 30 July - Congress: 30 July – 9 August - Post Congress Tour: 9 – 16 August Registration numbers - 895 people registered at the website - 422 full congress participants - 68 member associations from 63 countries - 34 Dutch students for Symposia and Gala

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12 extra Belgian students 14 pharmacists for the Symposia 20 LIT participants 44 PCT participants 12 RC members 20 Helping Committee members

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the RC was working very hard to organise the whole event. All details were finalised and (pre-) congress booklets were made. The Public Health Campaign and Pharmacy Profession Awareness Campaign were combined in the theme ‘Over-the-counter Medication’.

New events at our congress are the Pharmacy Education trainings, Compounding Event, CSE Team Jeopardy and Pharmacy Visits.

It has been an amazing experience to organise this World Congress. At the moment of writing this article, we still have several weeks to go before the start of the event. All twelve RC members who have started this journey are still working to have the best IPSF World Congress ever. I think it is amazing that everyone is still here and working for each other. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this event. We have had much support from lots of different people and organisations. I really hope that all congress participants will have one of the best experiences in their lives and fully can enjoy the IPSF spirit!

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Mr. Afadhali Diallo, Chairperson of African Regional Office 2012-13

My Experience as the Chairperson of the AfRO Hello IPSF’ers!

IPSF to the western Africa.

It’s with a great pleasure and honor to greet you today. My name is Afadhali Diallo from Rwanda, the IPSF Chairperson of the African Regional Office 2012-2013.

I fell in love with IPSF; I am got so in love with the Federation but not as much as in 2011 when I started chatting with ‘international pharmaceutical students’. I am so in love with IPSF!

Today, I want to talk about my journey in IPSF especially during my term in the IPSF Executive Committee. It was at Sheraton Hotel Club des Pins,on July 18, 2012 in Algiers that I was elected as the IPSF Chairperson African Regional Office after a long speech and competition for the regional development goals.The year has not been an easy one as most of our members were not yet as much interactive as we wanted but we tried the best and with support of an amazing team of executives and regional working group, the results can be seen.

Talking about public health, pharmacy education, professional development and student exchange program, our regional improvement and achievements are better than previous years. Having a successful 2nd IPSF African Pharmaceutical symposium in Arusha Tanzania, where15 countries have been represented, and being able to bring the FESPAO (West African Pharmaceutical Sciences Students’ Federation) was an unmeasured pleasure for us to extend the

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Since I got into IPSF, I am exploring, I have so far visited ten countries through IPSF and the journey is still long. I now make part of the 59th IPSF Executive committee. To me, being involved in IPSF has been a benefit through the interaction with a larger group of people building a longlasting friendship and getting to know and share more about pharmacy and leadership through the LIT (leaders in training).

In IPSF, I have made friends, improved my professional life, culture and gifts exchange.Been to many historical places, I can say the biggest garden in Africa, Kasbah which is the artistic place to explore early Algeria and the country’s culture, the cemetery of heroes and victims of the anti-

colonialism war, being at the FIP/IPSF Office was a pleasure!

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Since our term, as 2012-13 AfRWG, we have achieved much, mainly in relations, spreading IPSF spirit in Africa and getting more countries joining IPSF such as Zambia, Namibia, Nigeria and Ethiopia and more work is still being done. Malaria in Public Health, regional LIT in AfRO and others are still being worked on for the future of IPSF AfRO. Facebook page followers from 310 to 829 and more are part of our work. The preparation of the AfPS and relation with WHO was amazing work as I was able to secure speakers from WHO AfRO for the 2nd African Pharmaceutical Symposium.

Ups and downs in work, getting overwhelmed with work and managing to do both personal and IPSF activities is not a simple thing.

Attending Executive meetings in The Hague and on Skype was very exciting. Now I am working for the President Clinton NGO in the USA, and I still feel IPSF in me.

Thanks for every single support for this year to be for me an amazing one.

IPSF is a wonderful world with endless professional opportunities and fun!

Want to get an international family? Join IPSF. Viva La Pharmacie!

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Mr. Anas Siddig, Chairperson of Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office 2012-13

What’s up EMRO? IPFS EMRO has grown every year since its approval during the GA in 2008 and as a result of this now in our region we have 9 active associations or federations and we have agood contact with more than 5 associations expressed their interest to join us.

We are just now waiting for their response, and I think if we succeed in finalizing this collaboration, there will be a great opportunity for the pharmacy students in EMRO to improve themselves through

A lot of work has been done in order to improve the quality of work from restructuring of the regional offices and finalization of different offices guidelines.

EMRO regional relation officer Mr. Ahmed and I participated and supervised the preparation of the Health Awareness day (HAD) and Ask Your Pharmacist Campaign (AYP) for three days in the most crowded places in Khartoum Sudan, they were about Hypertension, Diabetes, Food poisoning, Influenza and tonsillitis along with free check for the blood glucose level and blood pleasure.

During my term I spent an unforgettable time with some of our associations as I attended the 4th Kuwait international conference in Kuwait (February), the Site visit and regional working group meeting in Alexandria hosted by ASPSA (March) to ensure the preparation for the 4th IPSF EMPS and to finalize the work of the regional offices, the12th EPSF National Conference in Egypt (April).

On the other hand, regarding the IPSF EMRO focus projects, I had a couple of meetings with WHO EMRO in Cairo in order to finalize the IPSF EMRO/WHO EMRO proposal for collaboration.

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participating in the different organised with WHO EMRO.

programmes

I would like to thank KPSS Kuwait, EPSF Egypt FPSA Sudan and ASPSA Egypt for their great effort they did during my participation in their successful events during this term, and special thanks for Ms. Essra Nour IPSF EMRO ICCO for what she have been doing for EMRO and EMPS as she was available all the time for help in promotional materials preparations.

IPSF EMRO In the future will be much strong and more effective in IPSF events participation and preparation.

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Ms. Van Duong, Chairperson of Pan American Regional Office 2012-13

My Experience as Chairperson of the PARO

Two years ago, I was a normal pharmacy student attending school at the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences in Stockton, California. After being active in my local chapter involvement in IPSF-Pacific, more international opportunities arose after attending my first World Congress in Hat Yai, Thailand where I was appointed to the Chairperson of the Pan American Region. It was then that I realized the need to reenergize the IPSF spirit in the Americas and the potential one can have through the federation.

IPSF provides the perfect opportunity to engage in global health care, work with international leaders, and to truly make an impact in the pharmacy profession.

After serving for two consecutive years, there have been huge strides in the Pan American Region.

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The PARO Regional Working Group of 2012-2013 has accomplished many of our goals to improve IPSF activity in the Americas setting a foundation for increased momentum in the future. Numerous online Skype meetings were held, and we crossed thousands of miles to meet together for our annual Regional Working Group Meeting in Orlando, Florida. We gained over 750 fans on our Facebook page that was only created last year.

The PARO region continued our three project initiatives to focus on the Vampire Cup Challenge, Diabetes & Health Living Campaign, and Malaria Awareness. We spent our efforts promoting IPSF within the three Full Member organizations of PARO: APhA-ASP (USA), CAPSI (Canada), and FECOEF (Costa Rica). APhA-ASP hosted the IPSF President during our annual conference, and we completed multiple presentations throughout California. PARO was successful in making new contacts in South America, and this year, we are

inactive, the Pan American Regional Symposium (PARS) will commence in 2015 hosted by FECOEF Costa Rica by Mr. Juan Diego Salazar Castro with assistance from Contact Person Carlos Gurdián.

In the past few years, IPSF has allowed me to directly be involved in global change and meet extraordinary individuals passionate about our profession.

It has been an honourable and humbling experience to work with such dedicated pharmacy leaders. Viva la pharmacie!

The most major accomplishment of the PARO region was the successful implementation of the 1st Pharmaceutical Tour held in Colombia.

Chairperson of PharmaTour, Mr. Álvaro León Torres, along with his reception committee, did an incredible job to host IPSF students from all over the Americas to explore industry, university, and research pharmacy in Bogota, Cali, and Medellin in Colombia. The IPSF enthusiasm has certainly swept the Americas, and after six years of being

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happy to welcome the newly created association of AEFRA from Argentina join us at World Congress and apply for IPSF membership.

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Mr. Mohan Shrestha, HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign Co-ordinator 2012-13

I am Mohan Shrestha from Nepal. It’s my honour to write this article as the HIV/AIDS Awareness Co-ordinator for the year 2012-13. After the successful completion of a year as IPSF Tobacco Alert Co-ordinator and attended the first IPSF World Congress in Hurghada, Egypt, I wanted to serve the general public by continuing my journey for the second year.

opportunity to be able to work together with many people from different countries all around the globe. This was a unique experience being a part of IPSF and working in a family. Life with IPSF is a memorable one. It was great to share emails and participate in online meetings and chats to share the ideas with the friends from all around the globe.

I feel glad to be a part of the federation and work in a multicultural environment. It has been quite easy to start this year activities due to my previous experiences. I have enjoyed preparing the campaign kit materials, writing for the public health spot and updating the database. The main goal for preparing a campaign kit is to help member countries conduct HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign throughout the year. Celebrating a day is not enough to reach our goal and I promoted timely to conduct the campaign. The overall campaign this year was so effective that other nonpharmacy related and non-member organization wanted the kit material as well. I am thankful to all who conducted and submitted the report of their campaign and the Red Ribbon Project. I enjoyed reading the activity reports very much.

Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to all the Executive members, co-ordinators, Public Health Sub-committee members, contact persons, regional working groups, all other sub-committee members of IPSF, and the IPSFers, without whom my experience with IPSF would not have been successful.

Thank you everyone who took the lead to reach the goal of “Getting to Zero.” Let’s keep up the campaigning efforts and take the federation to the next level.

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” – Mahatma Gandhi Viva la Pharmacie!

The focus of the year is towards the theme “Getting to Zero.” It was not an easy task to work against the global pandemic. Though, it was truly a wonderful

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My experience as the HIV/AIDS Co-ordinator

Ms. Lina Heled, Diabetes and Healthy Living Campaign Co-ordinator 2012-13

Healthy Living: Pay it Forward!

“Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), primarily cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, are responsible for 63% of all deaths worldwide.”

“NCD’s are preventable through effective interventions that tackle shared risk factors, namely: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful alcohol use.”

These are just a few worrying facts provided by WHO regarding NCD’s. What can we do to change all this?

I would like to share with you, my humble opinion regarding the pharmacy profession: we are trained to be a professional member of the medical staff responsible for peoples’ good health.

How? I guess this years’ experience has provided me with a few answers. Being healthy is not just about taking your medications properly. Staying healthy also has a lot to do with Prevention. This is where we, pharmacy students, enter the picture.

This year, while working closely with the contact persons, and seeing the amazing work different associations did to celebrate November 14thWorld Diabetes Day, I was filled with immense joy.

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I was incredibly proud to be part of IPSF. For those of us who choose to work in the community have to realize the strength we have to help people lead healthier lifestyles and prevent unnecessary diseases. Unbelievably, we can do all that in just five minutes of patient counseling.

Even though we are looking into the future, most of us are still students. For now, we can spread the word using the campaign kits IPSF, WHO and other organizations offer, and most importantly, we have our knowledge and creativity. Get more involved with your national associations, apply for IPSF positions and learn more about international health policies and initiatives.

“Health contributes to and benefits from sustainable development and is a measurable indicator of the success of all other development policies. Investing in the health of people is a smart strategy for poverty alleviation. This calls for inclusion of NCD’s and for continued efforts to reach the health-related MDGs after 2015”. Dr Margaret Chan, DirectorGeneral of the WHO, 66th World Health Assembly, Switzerland, May 2013.

Ms. Anggie Wiyani, Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign Co-ordinator 2012-13

It has been two years since the first time I was introduced to IPSF, and my love has grown bigger ever since. Hence, I am now here as the IPSF Tuberculosis Co-ordinator. What motivates me to get involved further with IPSF every year is that the people I meet during IPSF events and congresses.

right at home. It was very amazing to witness the World Health Organization discussing their plans and meeting people from different backgrounds yet all working towards the betterment of public health.

Speaking with them has given me countless motivations to be a better pharmacy student, moreover be involved in the public health area. Even on my working days as a co-ordinator, I feel blessed to be surrounded by international people.

The difference I brought this year was initiating a competition based on a social media, Twitter, as a part of IPSF Tuberculosis Awareness Campaign. I felt very relieved knowing it was a huge success looking at the number of tweets we received from different people across the globe! I really hope that we could improve this kind of competition next year.

Without the guts for applying in the first time I won’t be this far in my IPSF experience. I would like to say thank you to all of the Public Health Sub-committee, fellow Public Health Co-ordinators, Chairperson of Public Health, other IPSF Co-ordinators, and of course the whole IPSF Executive Committee.

Viva la Pharmacie!

The most valuable experience I had this year was being a part of IPSF delegation when attending the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. It was my first time to travel so far on my own and I was very excited! I was very delighted to meet other IPSFers that made me feel IPSF Annual Bulletin

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My Experience as the TB Co-ordinator

Mr. Bilel Boughzala, Tobacco Alert Co-ordinator 2012-13

My Experience as the

Tobacco Alert Co-ordinator My name is Bilel Boughzala. I come from Tunisia.

I am the Tobacco Alert Co-ordinator for the year 2012-2013. I would like to begin by thanking all the people who have helped me to achieve most of my plan for this year especially the Chairperson of Public Health committee and all the participants involved in my sub-committee.

Being a sub-committee coordinator is such an exciting experience for many reasons.

First of all I met and kept in touch with lots of amazing pharmacy students. Moreover I got involved in this big family of IPSF, which helped me not only to know more about different student associations but also share (interesting professional experiences. I would also like to add that during this year I improved many skills such as how to send formal E-mails and using Internet tools easily so that information spreads quickly and efficiently. As for the professional field, I tried to know the latest scientific news concerning tobacco and share them with students all over the World to be up to. Last but not least, I find that leading this sub-committee was among the best experiences I have ever had since I contributed in fighting a real danger threatening human health

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although it was in a tiny scale.

All I Hope is that Tobacco Alert Sub-committee will always be a main contributor in Public Health strategies and great actor in ensuring the protection of health from a danger which could be fatal.

Viva IPSF! Viva Tobacco Alert Sub-Committee!

Viva la Pharmacie!

Mr. Méthode Nezerwa, Medicine Awareness Campaign Co-ordinator 2012-13

My name is Méthode Nezerwa and I am the IPSF Medicine Awareness Campaign (MAC) Co-ordinator, 2012-13. I have been absorbed in IPSF activities since 4 years ago. I joined the IPSF for the first time in 2010 as a member of the Membership Promotion Sub-Committee (MPC). In 2011, I joined the Pharmacy Education & Medicine Awareness Sub-Committees.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that over 50% of all medicines are prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately and that half of all patients fail to take them correctly.

This incorrect use may take the form of overuse, underuse and misuse of prescription or nonprescription medicines. Common problems include: polypharmacy (use of too many medicines); overuse of antibiotics and injections; failure to prescribe in accordance with clinical guidelines; inappropriate self-medication. All of which may seriously affect the life of medicines

users. Increasing people’s knowledge about medications is effective in promoting the rational use of medicines therefore main¬tains and improves the health care outcomes in patients.

It would be with quit a controversy to give patients a medication without vital information about it. As pharmacy students and the pharmacists of tomorrow, the IPSF Medicine Awareness Campaign is a unique opportunity to demonstrate the integral role of a pharmacist in health promotion by informing the public about drugs and medicines abuse, addictions, side effects and interactions as well as increasing drug misuse awareness therefore, changing the misconceptions surrounding our Pharmacy profession. Being the MAC Co-ordinator is a paramount opportunity to interact with internationally folks, exchanging knowledge with them, sharing experiences and best practices as well as making international friends. Participating in MAC can turn a pharmacy student into a SevenStar Pharmacist.

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My experience as the MAC Co-ordinator

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Ms. Johanna Walz, Clinical Skill Events Co-ordinator 2012-13

My experience as CSE Co-ordinator

After I serving on the public health team for two years (HIV and Diabetes Co-ordinator), I had to learn that professional development works totally different. Thanks to the support from Melissa and Eric , I got on board pretty fast.

I made one of my goals to make CSE a little more public among students. Therefore I updated the Step by Step booklet and also prepared a poster showing on what the CSE is. Apart from that, I started to send out old cases in order to get the CPs more interested in the CSE and to help them avoid the fear of participating in the CSE at an IPSF event.

The big tasks for the Clinical Skills Event Co-ordinator are to prepare the CSEs during the regional symposia and during the World Congress. Therefore I started to get in contact with the reception committee of each congress at the beginning of 2013. Melissa and Eric were again a great help in writing the cases, but also my sub-committee needs to be named here. They were brilliant and helped me a lot with writing the cases.

Working for IPSF means a lot of additional work apart from pure studies or apart from normal work.

Still, it is definitely worth the additional time, and I would recommend everyone who would like to learn from other cultures, from pharmacy students all around the globe, to take over a position in IPSF and enjoy the IPSF spirit!

Finally I would like to thank everyone who has been organizing a Clinical Skill Event this year, and another special thanks to Eric and Melissa who had been a great support throughout the year.

Keep on practicing your Clinical Skills – participate in a CSE or organise it yourself!

Viva la pharmacie!

Also a new category for the Clinical Skills Event was introduced in the World Congress – the Jeopardy CSE. New great challenge to learn more Clinical Skills!

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ment t n e m p t n e m op t n e m lop n e m p elo e m p o vel m p o l e ev m p o l e Dev p o l e v De o l e v e lD o l e v e al D e v e D nal v e D l ona e D l a ion e D l a sion D l a n o i ss l a n o essi a n o i s fes n o i s s ofe sio

Ms. Lyna Fichouche, Leaders in Training Co-ordinator 2012-13

My experience as the LIT Co-ordinator It is with a great pleasure that I am writing these words, to express and share with all of you a whole year of IPSF work as the Leaders in Training ( LIT ) Co-ordinator, a year that has passed by very quickly, full of great moments , exciting work , new friends from all over the world , and a huge amount of e-mails! Though this was nothing compared to the great feeling of being a part of something bigger than yourself: IPSF Henry Ford once said:“ One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.“ This is exactly what happened to me, I was first a bit afraid of not being able to fulfil my duties, especially with work, studies and everything, but I found out that nothing was impossible to achieve as long as we know how to manage our time.

Being a part of IPSF definitely helped when it came to time management. , Team work and group dynamics were also a part of the job. The best part I would say, is always having people around to encourage and appreciate the hard work that we do.

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the guidance and advice that I gave to the IPSF members who wanted to organize LIT locally.

In the end, I would like to thank IPSF for giving me the chance to live such a wonderful experience that started 3 years ago when I attended LIT as a trainee during EMPS, then becoming LIT Co-ordinator of the 1st AFPS, and eventually as IPSF LIT Co-ordinator.

Viva la pharmacy and viva IPSF! Cheers from Algiers.

Ms. Catherine Brown, PPAC Co-ordinator 2012-13

My year with IPSF has been a wonderful one.

Pharmacy Professional Awareness Campaigns are about to hit a new high with the first ever APRO PPAC Award to be given out at the Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium in August this year. It is a very exciting time as the APRO PPAC Award has been a long awaited work in progress.

Many submissions have already come in and the decision will definitely be a difficult one.

Teddy Bear Hospital continues to grow as more and more countries continue to run the campaign and reports have been very positive.

FIP to put forward a better campaign for World Pharmacist Day (September 25) with better promotional material and awareness.

It is an absolute privilege to be a part of IPSF and involved in the wonderful work that is being done!

Viva la Pharmacie!!

It has been amazing and truly inspiring to see the amount and variety of campaigns that have been run all over the world and the creativity and ideas that have come through these.

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My Year with IPSF

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Mr. Fahmi Fuady, Phuture Co-ordinator 2012-13

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.� -Margaret Fuller IPSF connected a young clinical pharmacist in Canada and a student in Indonesia doing research on traditional herbal medicine. Each of their experiences in this field is no doubt very different, and exchanging them proved to be a benefit for them both. PEN and Phuture gave opportunities to any IPSF members to share their experience and ideas with others. 6 issues of PEN and an issue of Phuture with a total of 32 articles related to pharmacy education have been published this year. All of these serve one simple objective, sharing knowledge between students and young pharmacists on this vast IPSF network.

At the start of my term, I was only expecting to do one job; to make sure Phuture, the annual scientific publication, gets published. I was

thinking to myself, how hard could it be? As the year moved on, I have definitely learned my lesson. Managing a publication is actually more than receiving submissions, doing minor edits, and sending them off to the designing team. It is about researching for topic of interests, and identifying people who would be interested in writing about that topic, and deciding the topic that would potentially receive the most response.

This year has been a great adventure for me, full of challenges and new things to learn.

It was a great honor to be trusted with this opportunity, I cannot be grateful enough for this.

For all that I have done this year, I would like to thank Marouen (Chairperson of Pharmacy Education) and Pharmacy Education Sub-Committee members (Shirley, Yuqian, Ahlem, Jace, and Putri) for all the supports and discussions we had, Alexandra (Chairperson of Media and Publications) for her job in giving PEN and Phuture their professional design, the editorial board who tirelessly proofread all articles I sent them, and of course all contributors who have shared their valuable knowledge with all of us.

Keep sharing, viva la Pharmacie!

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Sharing Knowledge Through IPSF

Mr. Jiayi Gong, Winner of IPSF Essay Competition 2013

Winning the Essay Competition 2013 My name is Jiayi a.k.a. Jay, I am a recent pharmacy graduate from the University of Otago, New Zealand. At the moment I am working as a hospital intern pharmacist. The idea of individualised care is a growing area of interest in many facets of health care. We have seen a drastic paradigm shift of the focus being on treatment to that of patient’s individual needs.

This essay competition interested me greatly with my increasing involvement in patient care.

It gave me an opportunity to find out about novel ways of individualised care from that of a molecular level to that of a social level. It was a learning opportunity that I would not have had the chance to, had I stayed within the realm of being an intern pharmacist.

I started my writing with only vague ideas of the

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topic but on retrospective, that was quite tactical as it helped to keep my mind open and not get too focused on any single idea and limit myself to them. I was constantly on the lookout for new ideas. It was a brilliant opportunity to learn something new and practice my writing skills; I would highly recommend other IPSFers to partake in the future upcoming competitions.

In closing, I would like to thank IPSF for this awesome opportunity. It’s both humbling and gratifying to be chosen as the winning entry, I would never have expected it. So I guess my advice for those that might be sitting on the fence and not sure about entering these competitions; just do it! You won’t know the result till you try, and the journey itself might be just as valuable as whatever the outcome may be.

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dent E c x E t uden x E t n tude Mr. Yannick Bayingana, Student Exchange Officer of AEPHAR (Rwanda) E t n e Stud t n e d SEP in Rwanda Stu e ge nge We also increased our placements in hospital and community pharmacy, ange bringing the total number of ange placements to 70, making Rwanda offering one of the largest number e g n ha of placements in SEP. e chang e g n a xch g n a h Exc g n a h t Exc n a h c nt Ex a h c x ent E h c x E ent c x E t den x E t n de I first discovered SEP in the 57th IPSF Congress, Thailand, 2011. I found it to be the best programme of IPSF, and I asked myself why I had never heard of it in my home country. Back to Rwanda, my first goal was to bring AEPHAR into SEP, starting by paying SEP membership fees myself.

signed a partnership with UN offices like WHO, UNFPA, UNDP, and other Health related NGOs, providing internships in this field

The first year of AEPHAR in SEP was 2011-2012, and it was a very challenging one. We were not popular, and I didn’t really have a mentor, as I was Rwanda’s first SEO. Our SEP Quota was 2, and yet we had so many fellow students applying for SEP, so to choose among the applications was a succession of tough decisions for AEPHAR’s Executives.

To promote SEP in Rwanda and make it interesting for foreign students, we decided to make lodgings and accomodations free. Getting sponsors was not an easy job at all, but we managed to get enough sponsors, and make accomodation even for many social acitivities. That pushed up our popularity, and interested many students to come for SEP in Rwanda.

This year 2012-2013, we had a new idea to bring to SEP. Offering placements in Public Health and Humanitarian field, as we think it’s one of the most passionate and importand fields of pharmacy. We

In addition to that, new sponsors joined the family, offering more accomodations and tours to our SEP students, and making SEP in Rwanda a lifetime experience for everybody.

Now my time as SEO is done, and I don’t regret any of it. From SEP I’ll remember a tough position, but rewarding a lot of smiles. What started as a tough and uncertain position ended up giving me enough stories to tell. For me SEP was and will always be about linking different cultures, learning from each other, opening our mind to new realities that you would never see at home.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only the cover page.

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Hello fellow IPSFers.

t n i a t o c i i a t on C c n i a u c n i u m n u o m m C o m m C n o m o C n i t o n i a t o c i i a t c n it on Co i a u c n i u m n u m m C o m m C n o m o C n i o t o C n i a t o c n i i a t o c n i i a t u c n i a u m n u m m o m m C n o m o C n i o t o C n i a t o c n i i a t c n i a u c n i u catio m n u m m o m m C n o m o C n i o t o C n i a t o c n i icatio ommunicat Communica n Communi io t o C n i a t o c n i i a t o c n i i a t u n ic u m n u m nica m o m m C o m C n i o t o C n i a t o c n i i a t o c n i i a t u c n i a u c m n i u m n m u o m m C o m C n o o C n i a t o c n i i a t o c n i i a t u c n i a u c m n i u m n m u o m m C o m m C n o o C n i t o c n i i a t o c n i i a t u c n i a u c m n m m o m C o muni on Commu C n o n i t o i i a t c n i i a t u c n i a u c m n i u m n m u o m m C o m m C n o m o C n i t o n i a t o c n i i a t u c n i a u c m n i u m n m u o m m C o m m C n o m o C n i t o n i a t o c i i a t u c n i a u c m n i u m n m u o m m C o m m C n o m o C n i o t o n i a t o c i i a t c n i a u m n ic u m n m u o m m C o m m C n o o C n i t o Com n i a t o c i i a t c n i a u c m n i u m n m u o m m C o n o i t Comm ication Com nication C a c i n u u m n m u o m m C o m m C n o m o C n i t o n i a t o c n Co i i a t c n i a u c n i u m n m u o m m C o m m C n o m o C n i t o n i a t o c i i a t on Co c n i a u c n i u m n u o m m C o m m C n o m o C n i o t o n i a t o c i i a t c n ion C i a u c n i u m n u m m C o m m C n o m o C n i o t o C n i a t o c i i a t c n i a tion u c n i u m n u m m C o m m C n o m o C n i o t o C n i a t o c i i a t c n i a u c n i ation u m n u m m o m m C n o m o C n i o t o C n i a t o c unica cation muni nicati 48 IPSF Annual Bulletin

Mr. Khaled Mostafa, Marketing Co-ordinator 2012-13

An idea can start anywhere: in a comment thread, YouTube video, e-mail, or dinner table.

From there it might make it to a blog post or a Tweet or a Facebook status. Then it could be indexed by Google, retweeted and shared by a few people on Facebook. From these places it could be read by an editor or a reporter or producer, who includes it in a piece in a newspaper or magazine or show.

That piece can be shared in a comment thread or on YouTube, and the whole thing starts again.

To deliver your message, the communication channels are various and the flow is constant, but you have to make the most of it.

I’m Khaled Mostafa, a Pharmacy graduate from Egypt, but I’ve a failed relationship with pharmacy, asI decided to follow my passion and work in the digital marketing and online branding. This year was my fourth IPSF year, and I haveto say that I had the honour to communicate with tenths of thousands of people worldwidethrough the screen of my laptop.

As IPSF Marketing Co-ordinator, it’s very important to keep the IPSF in the top of mind and heart of all the IPSFers. The general objective I wanted to reach this year was more promotion of IPSF events, projects, in addition to the

activities of member associations, we still need to know how to best market our activities to the partners. Besides, developing the performance of IPSF social networks and tracking its success, and the statistics showed a marked increase in engagement rates, I managed to increase the fans of Facebook page to almost 44,000 likes, and the Twitter account increased to almost 1,650 followers in 11 months (growth rate 172%).

Certainly, being the Marketing Co-ordinator was one of the most amazing and challenging experiences I had this year, but it wasn’t an easy job.

In IPSF, to manage social media well, you have to allocate about 20 hours weekly to create the content, graphics, and think about the best ways of publishing. You have to share the passion with your fans.

As a final remark, I would like to thank all of those who encouraged, supported and trusted me to go for the Marketing Co-ordinator position.

Enjoy your time at the congress!

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Communication

Beyond The IPSF Digital Face

Mr. Jason Hong Tat Siang, Blog Co-ordinator 2012-13

Jace and Blog Dear IPSF mates and fellow friends of the federation, As the year draws to an end, I would like to say a big thank you for giving me this great opportunity in being this year’s Blog Manager. First of all, I have to admit I was not into reading the blogs at all because it was not updated regularly enough in the past years and this to me was one of the problems encountered by the blog. However this year, our mission was to increase the number of posts and visitors to the blog. In a nutshell, I have tried my best to encourage the executives to write more about the activities they have done for IPSF and also their personal stories. I enjoyed editing the pieces the executives have wrote and I hope everyone have learned and laughed as much as I did.

In the future, I hope the next Blog Manager would take up the challenges that I did not manage to accomplish this year. I was hopefully wishing to make the blog more interactive and informative.

Unfortunately, due to the multiple responsibilities and the hardship to balance IPSF work and studies, I could not accomplish the goals I personally set with Alexandra for the development of the blog.

So, to potential Blog Managers, my advice to you is to try to dedicate yourself as much to the federation as you can.

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The blog is a source of information and a link of communication between members and executives.

Therefore although your role may sound frivolous, it really plays much importance to the federation.

With this, I hope to see everyone soon and if you have anything else you want to see in the blog, please contact the next Blog Manager.

Ms. Yuqian Liu, Editor-in-Chief 2012-13

The Power of Words

After serving as the IPSF Editor-in-Chief, I think one of those descriptors stands taller than the rest, powerful. The words of IPSF, of our members, of our purpose, of our goals and missions, and of our achievements, they are powerful.

As the IPSF Editor-in-Chief, it is my responsibility to work with the IPSF Chairperson of Media and Publication and lead the Editorial Board (EB) in proofreading all IPSF publications including newsletters, journal articles, campaign toolkits, and other IPSF official documents. The amount of work is overwhelming. Though with the wonderful EB working around the clock, we have moved mountains. The experience in itself is priceless. Furthermore, it brings me great pleasure to read about every effort that our fellow IPSF’ers

have put forth in changing global practice, every accomplishments our fellow IPSF’ers have achieved in advancing the profession of pharmacy, every step our fellow IPSF’ers have taken in making a difference in this world.

It may be silly of me to think, but every time I edit an article, I feel like I have adopted another child. Every change I put down, every strike, every insert, and every comment, it feels like I am cleaning, dressing, feeding and sheltering this child. It serves me great pride to think that I have done everything I can to prepare this child for the real world. When the article becomes published, it brings warm and fuzzy feelings to my heart when I read it, just like the heart of a mother when the child returns home after a long journey. That is the power of words. When these words can reach the heart of another reader, when the reader can feel the passion of our fellow IPSF’ers while organizing and carrying out these events, that shows the power of words. When the reader understands our message and our purpose and becomes one of us, that shows the power of words. When our publications unite our members in experience, passion, and memory, we stand stronger above all. That is the power of words, and with the help of every IPSF’er, we can continue to spread the power of our words.

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Many say that Shakespeare is a magician, because his words are from a magical realm. I have always believed that, the magic within words. Words can be emotional, powerful, prudent, breathtaking, and dull.

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Ms. Ursa Jarc, Sponsorship Co-ordinator 2012-13

Keep Calm and Give Me Money!

My name is Ursa Jarc and I am the first ever IPSF Sponsorship Co-ordinator. Last year at IPSF World congress in Hurghada, Egypt, I decided that I wanted to be a part of the IPSF team, a part of this amazing array of people shaping the international student pharmaceutical scene. Since I feel the most at home in international affairs the position of Sponsorship Co-ordinator seemed the perfect choice.

I dreamt big at the beginning of the year, about endless possibilities of funding and sponsorship opportunities in the world of non-governmental organization (NGOs). I tried to evolve this new position into the backbone of the organization, providing sufficient financial support for extraordinary IPSF work, both within the Executive committee as within the IPSF projects as such.

The task proved very difficult, requiring a lot of experience, expertise and time. Especially due to time constraints the initial vision had to be shaped into attainable goals. The Sponsorship Sub-committee showed great interest and motivation for work, some preferring the ‘real’ sponsorship and others the grants.

Sometime after the New Year, the Sponsorship Sub-committee started to work with the IPSF President on updating the Partnership prospectus,

which is a document with which IPSF presents itself and its activities to possible external partners, sponsors and donors. We tried our best also to update the contacts list of companies worldwide which could be presented with this Prospectus and offered different goods in return for financial and ‘in kind’ support. We tried to investigate different grant options and apply to some appropriate calls, but sadly the investigation took too much time to gain sufficient knowledge to proceed to the application.

This year’s work gave me a much deeper understanding of IPSF and of myself. Being also the IPSF Contact person of ŠS SFD Slovenia, I gained an enormous amount of knowledge, not only about sponsorship but also about soft skills, marketing, team work and my limits. To quote Mahatma Gandhi, “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

To conclude, I would like to thank to the individuals who contributed in any way to the work of the Sponsorship Sub-committee 2012-2013. Special thanks go to Radoslaw Mitura, Melissa Teo, Jakub Weber and Angela Sester.

Viva la pharmacie!

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Otto Föcking Award Winner 2012:

ASEPA, Algeria

By Ms. Sarah Romeili, Contact Person of ASEPA (Algeria)

My love story with IPSF started in 2011. I was a reception committee member for the first African Pharmaceutical Symposium (AfPS) held in Algeria in 2012, and moreover I participated in LIT. After that, I wanted to increase my commitment to IPSF. In November 2012, I was elected as ASEPA contact person.I was excited to join my new family: IPSF. First step was to introduce myself in the IPSF CP group on Facebook and Gmail, and I was happy to read the comments of different CPs welcoming me into IPSF. Days after, the new executive members of ASEPA organized the very first campaign-Diabetes Campaign. It was a whole new experience for the new ASEPA staff including me! By organizing the first AfPS and wining the Otto Focking Award gave more popularity and credibility to ASEPA among students, teachers, sponsors, and the Algerian authorities. We had to assume this responsibility and give one hundred per cent of ourselves to organize the best campaigns. I have to admit that at the beginning, I was lost and I was afraid to make mistakes. Fortunately, Amel Abad, the previous ASEPA chairperson and CP, was present to show me the way. With her help, I quickly adapted myself to CP position. Everything was running smoothly and I enjoyed every second with ASEPA and IPSF. What I liked the most was organizing ASEPA activities, reporting them, transmitting IPSF news to ASEPA, promoting

for IPSF events, register the maximum of ASEPA members for IPSF events, I can say that everything was literally perfect .

My IPSF CP experience had positive consequences both professionally and personally. It was worthwhile serving IPSF and ASEPA, even though it was difficult to balance between my CP duties and my studies sometimes.

In the end, I’m proud to say that I am the main link between IPSF and ASEPA. I will never regret being a CP. The opposite, it will always be an honour for me to say that I was once upon a time “IPSF CP”!

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Sidney J. Ralph Award Winner 2012:

NAPSER, Serbia

By Ms. Nina Randjic, Contact Person of NAPSer (Serbia) Summer morning, waking up, preparing a coffee and breakfast, logging in on facebook, checking the home page and looking at a couple of my friends’ statuses with the following sentence: “NAPSer is awarded for the best association in the IPSF!” Logging out, logging in again, the same news on the home page. So it’s true, I’m not dreaming, we got the annual award!

I was extremely happy! My body started to make very strange movements in confusing directions.

Looking at photos of our delegation that was representing us, holding the statue of the award, my eyes got wet. I was proud; being a member of the NAPSer became even bigger honor to me.

I think all of us were asked at least once what the work in the students’ association means to us; especially when sometimes we work a lot and we are not paid at all. After all the activities and events we organize, when our dean recognizes our persistent work, stands in front of the full amphitheater and starts to praise all our effort, keep saying at every occasion how proud she is, that when we realize all the meanings of the volunteering work.

The fact, we can influence and contribute to our educational system when we are still students.

After receiving the annual award, more students at our faculties become interested in a work of the NAPSer and wanted to become the part of it.

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Nowadays it’s a bit easier to find people to help out, to make a team; they are highly motivated, want to work for the same goal, becoming the best again. We have greater support of our dean, as well. Having a financial issue is something that cannot be changed that easily, but for the beginning is more important to know that we will always have support of your faculty, that they will try to help us as much as they can. We got a lot of ideas to implement new projects and improve the work of our association and we know that it will ‘’get a green’’ light if our ‘’pharmacy students’ society’’ is asked.

Be motivated, be enthusiastic, believe in and love our work, no matter how difficult it seems to be, in the end it will really be worth it! Good luck to everyone! Viva la IPSF!

Mr. Henry William, Contact Person of NUSPS (Singapore)

My CP Experience

I have been involved in IPSF activities since I first participated in the 10th Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium in Indonesia. Meeting with likeminded students from the region emboldened me to take on a greater role in the local and international pharmacy scene.

Juggling both of my roles is definitely not easy.

As the Vice President, I have to read countless e-mails and plough through event proposals for our students. Activities include IPSF-related PPAC initiatives such us our Xperience Pharmacy Camp, phealth events, as well as pharmacy education visits.

In addition, a CP has to read more e-mails, relay the information to the students and submit activity reports. Waking up earlier than a rooster

for the CP meetings is a new experience too.

However, if it is not difficult, it is not worth it.

Being a CP-cum-Vice-President exposed me to the passion that we pharmacy students have for our chosen profession. I am also proud to have personally experienced the sense of duty that our students have to care for our community.

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Hello IPSFers! I am Henry, the Contact Person and the Vice President for the National University of Singapore Pharmaceutical Society (NUSPS), Singapore.

I am glad that I managed to form bonds with our fellow CPs and students from other countries too.

I am going to miss seeing the light of dawn after a CP meeting, joking around during APPS regional meetings and screaming my lungs out during APPS campaigns!

If given a chance to turn back time, my involvement in IPSF is one thing that I would not change. Thank you to all my fellow IPSFers for welcoming me into this big family.

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Mr. Lucas Ercolin, Regional Relations Officer of PARO 2012-13

Can you feel it?

Can you be it?

Hello, my name is Lucas Ercolin, from Brazil.

After IPSF, sometimes people ask me: “When will be your next trip?” This is a far vague question.

“Trip” may mean taking an airplane and leave the country. Or it can be also taking a car and go to a market. Many say that it is seeing new things, but it can also be doing new things. “Trip” can be seeing a new place, but it can also be meeting new people.

While on my exchange in Coimbra, Portugal, I attended FIP Centennial Congress, in Amsterdam, Netherlands with some people whom I met in Egypt. I went to Colombia for an amazing experience, the IPSF PARO Pharmatour. My trip wasn’t only that, but talking with people, Skype and Google Hangout with my Regional Officer, Leaders in PARO, Outreach and Development Sub-committee, etc. It was an amazing

IPSF is my non-stop trip: whether it is leaving my country to my childhood dream, Egypt, where I saw the great Pyramids, or go to a market in a car, where I brought the Colombia’s Playboy as a gift for my “República” (fraternity house) at the “Exito”, a Supermarket in Bogotá, or see new things, where I went to a country called “First World”, and then do something new like going through the streets of my country protesting for it betterment, or going to a new place, a world congress full of pharmacists from all over the world, meeting more people than I couldn’t ever thing that exists.

Been in IPSF is a life-changing experience. When my next trip will be? It is whenever, anytime, all the time. For now, it will be at IPSF World Congress!

As the representative of my association to apply the affiliation, 18 years after the first contact, I decided to have maximum of the congress, LIT, 10 days PCT, parties…and even sleeping at the GA. Afterwards, I decided to participate at IPSF Pan American Regional Office as Regional Relations Officer.

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Ms. Lina Salama, Contact Person of EPSF (Egypt)

My addiction started 2 years ago when I attended the regional LIT program followed by the 2nd Eastern Mediterranean Pharmaceutical Symposium (EMPS). Right about then, I fell under the IPSF’s spell and got caught up in the overwhelming spirit. The addiction started with extreme state of euphoria like no other. Traveling back home was accompanied by withdrawal symptoms that only got better when I started my EPSF journey.

Two months later, I became the president at my University’s Local Association, EPSF’s Teddy Bear Hospital Co-ordinator, and a member in IPSF Professional Development Sub-committee. The things I learned during that year were much more than everything I have learned during my university years. I finally was able to find a meaning in what I’m doing. I was finally able to use pharmaceutical science to improve the surrounding society and to make a difference in other’s lives. From that point on I knew there is no

all together to work under the same vision and mission. I got to experience how EPSF’ers make changes every day in Egypt, gaining the trust of the public toward pharmacists and proving every second that we’re not just drug dispensers, we are real life savers. With this years’ experience, all I could do all day and night was about IPSF and EPSF, they took over my life and the best part is, it was totally worth it. Working in IPSF and EPSF places you under the type of pressure that brings out the best in you and makes you discover sides of you that you never knew existed.

Finally, I would like to thank the IPSF’ers and EPSF’ers who changed my life forever, who helped me become a better person, and who trusted and supported me. If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t be the person I am today.

Viva IPSF, Viva La Pharmacie

turning back from that addiction.

This year, my addiction got more severe as I became EPSF’s Contact Person, I got to experience the best of both worlds, I had the opportunity to contact with IPSF’ers from all around the world and I came realize how similar we are. IPSF was able to break all the boundaries and bring us IPSF Annual Bulletin

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Confessions of an IPSF Addict

Mr. Prince Ampomah, Contact Person of GPSA (Ghana)

My Experience My tenure as CP will forever leave me with unforgettable memories. I drew motivation from the fact that I represented my association on the international front and hence a good image is Key. I worked relentlessly to put GPSA-Ghana on the limelight and this will forever bring me joy.

The association has had a successful year thanks to its sponsors, the faculty staff and most importantly its members. This year saw the introduction of IPSF activities such as the Clinical Skills Event which built students confidence and taught students the use of clinical equipment and other diagnostic techniques, a Leadership in training (LIT) seminar where prominent leaders in our society were invited to speak and impact on our lives, and a Patient Counselling Event where winners were awarded. Also, this year saw the first ever World Diabetes Day celebration by the GPSA where over five hundred (500) people in and around the university campus were screened and counselled on diabetes and its complications.

Again, thirty students participated in the Student Exchange Program in countries like South Africa, Canada, Poland, Turkey and Portugal which is the highest number of students we have had go on exchange in a long while. The office hosted six foreign students in the SEP period. These students came from South Africa, Germany, Spain and 60 IPSF Annual Bulletin

Czech Republic. The exchange students were also privileged to take part in the Annual Drug Safety and Health Awareness Campaign that was held in the Western Region.

As the curtains draws closer and closer to mark the end of my tenure as CP I would love to show my appreciation to the great CPs around the world and the executive body for being supportive and a big sister to me.

I would confidently and undoubtedly say being the contact person, is one of the best things that has happen to me in my life.

Mr. Lucas Besson, Contact Person of ANEPF (France)

Bonjour à Tous

Bonjour à tous, I am Lucas Besson from Grenoble and I am the Vice-President of International for Association Nationale des Étudiants en Pharmacie de France (ANEPF) and therefore the IPSF Contact Person. Now let me step back a little and say that from the beginning of my international experience, the more I learned about IPSF the richer the network of the federation seemed!

Now I became CP I can state: our network is our strength!

ANEPF’s range of activity is wide: from professional affairs to student representative in order to impact on our curricula, through education and training of our network (24 faculties of Pharmacy and as many local association). We publish several guides every year, are active on international level and are an actor of public health.

Over the years, we have had several events of training for our network. The most important ones are weekend of General Assembly 5 times a year (plus our annual congress) mixing educational and social part. Last year we had the chance to welcome several IPSF personals: Radek (IPSF President), Joana (Chairperson of Student Exchange) and Marouen (Chairperson of Education). It was a great opportunity to improve the impact of promoting the Federation and its opportunities.

On public health domain, this year we improved the national Vampire Cup within our network.

The new version is now done in collaboration with medicine students. It aims to collect blood donation but also other kind of donation (platelets, plasma, etc) and promote organs and bone marrow donation.

There are many ways to enjoy and fulfil a student’s life and IPSF involvement is definitively one of them. There is always something else to do, something to improve, knowledge to share and ideas to pick from elsewhere!

Pour que vive la Pharmacie, vive l’ANEPF, vive l’IPSF.

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“No” the French are not wearing striped shirt every day and “Yes” we eat frogs and snails ; “No” we are not that rude and “Yes” our pharmacy students are very active !

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