PARO Newsletter #8 | English version
They also organized the In-vestigation Presentation Event (IPE), Compounding Event (CE), Clinical Skills Event (CSE), and Patient Counseling Event (PCE) competitions, adapted to a virtual modality. The fun was not lacking as two social activities were organized: a “Movie Night”: where the film Soul was screened, and the “SINAFEST”: an event that featured a Stand-Up Comedy by Waleska Oporta, the music of DJ Fung, as well as various dynamics and the awarding of the winners of the competitions. CONCLUSION
Feb. de 2020 | Vol. 8
At the end of the day, it was possible to get the positive out of the change generated by the pandemic and a massive event was successfully adapted. SINAEF is and will continue to be a space for the exchange of knowledge and also a way to create new personal and work relationships. We hope that it will continue to be carried out over the years despite the challenges, such as virtuality in this case.
IPSA SPELLING BEE ARTICLE
This year the international Pharmacy Students Association hosted a unique event. To finish off the semester t
hey had their first annual medication spelling bee. Contestants were to say the medication
name, spell it and say it again. If the medication was spelled correctly they proceeded to the next round, if the spelling was incorrectly the contestant was eliminated. The medications were separated into tiers that changed each round increasing in difficulty along the way. The medications that were divided into tiers were randomized by drawing them out of a hat to avoid bias. The grand prize for the winner of the event was a 100-dollar gift card, along with a gold medal. This event was mainly to give our students that were watching something fun to do after a long week of studying, and to give our participants a friendly challenge. To kick off the event we had a very exciting opening song playing in the background while our host introduced all the components with witty personal details and a little bit of their history. During the event, we had one of our members go around interviewing participants as well as spectators.
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