MyPSA Newsletter November 2018 Issue

MyPSA

Newsletter November 2018 issue

ANNUAL REPORT national pharmacy quiz & Piala Aishah

National Clinical PhaRmacy Challenge

Interview IPSF Committees

CONTENT Annual Report pg 1 National Event pg 49 International Event pg 55 Public Health Campaign pg 69

MyPSA November 2018 Issue

ANNUAL REPORT

AN Seah Chung-Yi | President

PRESIDENT

Manifesto

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Remark

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Developing a pool of leaders Achieved via executing Metamorfor future use of MyPSA phosis with 3 separate phases, for a duration of 6 months.

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Building a good relationship with We have collaborated with YPC in MPS - YPC MyPSA PGCF as well as Metamorphosis. We are sharing their programs on our fb groups as well, however, maintaining a promise that they will not come scouting for our members as associates unless approached by members themselves.

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Reviewing constitution

Achieved along with all the EXCOs on what is appropriate and not as well as what is out of date.

MyPSA

NNUAL REPORT With the help of my Public Health Officer, we are currently collaborating with MGLA on an mQUIT programme. They supply us the funds and we execute the program. Training will be given by MGLA prior the execution of the mQUIT programs.

Collaboration with MGLA for mQUIT

PRESIDENT

Currently, all national events are either proposed or hosted by local societies and MyPSA EXCOS. If you are neither, and you have a good idea, you have no channel to execute it. With the help of the SecGen and PEO, we created a channel for all members to hand in their proposals and select one or 2 out of them per year, to be carried out by the designated person.

New mechanism for INDIVIDUALS to propose organizing a national event under the name of MyPSA

With the help of the whole treasurer team, we have concluded that we do not have enough funds to actually fund additional things besides those that we are to execute compulsory. To reduce our annual expenses, I proposed to size down all of our events into a list and it will be passed down to the next tenure to have a look at it.

Balancing of funds of MyPSA

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Manifesto 1

VICE PRESIDENT 1

Reena A/P Pakianathan | Vice President 1

I’m always aware with the work that was going on between the host and the EXCOs that are in charge for the national events. I joined few online meetings that was held between the host and the executive officers (PEO and PDO) in order to know the update plus to provide any solution for their problems.

Not only that I always meet and talk to all the organizing committee representatives during the general meetings. This gave me an opportunity to know the organising committee very well in person. I successfully attended 3 national events which are NPSC 2018 held in IIUM Kuantan, NCPC 2018 held in SEGI University, NPQ&PA 2018 held in UKM and NPDC 2018 in MAHSA. My involvement as Vice President 1 with all the host of the national events really allowed me to achieve this manifesto which is to ensure the better line of communication between host and MyPSA.

To ensure better line of communication between host and MyPSA

MyPSA

I conducted few EXCO Skype Meetings within the executive officers to get updates on each of their works. This initiative really help us, the EXCOs to know the current situation like events and issues going on in MyPSA. I managed to conduct four Skype meetings which was on 10th March, 27th April, 8th June and 31st July 2018.

To increase the number of meetings within high committees

All three national events are under PDO’s portfolio. The standardization of mechanism is a great initiative to provide a fair platform and create transparency for all the participants.

Not only that the standardised mechanism gives a clear picture of the event flow and also decrease the burden for the host to come up with a proper mechanism for the event.

To standardize a mechanism for events

Manifesto 3

I worked together with Miss Lisa, Professional Development Officer to come up with a standardised mechanism each for 3 main national events which are National Clinical Pharmacy Challenge (NCPC), National Pharmacy Quiz & Piala Aishah (NPQ&PA) and National Pharmacy Debate Competition (NPDC).

VICE PRESIDENT 1

Manifesto 2

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AN Nur Shafazawani Binti Sapan| Vice president 2

VICE PRESIDENT 2

International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation (Central) Related Matters Goal

Update the IPSF Executives with the latest MyPSA information

Sent relevant information to IPSF regarding MyPSA Officers and few other information.

There were 2 Global CP Meetings done throughout the 2017/2018 tenure:

1st Global CP Meeting 2nd Global CP Meeting The meetings were usually about World Congress updates, Contact Person matters, IPSF issues and many others.

Attended Global Person Meetings

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Contact

To promote IPSF Vampire Cup to MyPSA Members, increase the awareness of donating blood and Discussed with PHO to carry out Vampire Cup PHO agreed and made Vampire Cup as one of the elements that need to be incorporated in PHC 8 universities joined the Regular Vampire Cup No universities joined the Live Vampire Cup (due to clashing date with Hari Raya Aidilifitri public holiday which was on 15th and 16th of June 2018) MyPSA did not win the competition

IPSF Vampire Cup Competition (Public Health)

Promoted the event that took place in Kigali, Rwanda on 23rd – 27th November 2017.

World Healthcare Students Symposium (WHSS) 2017 Call for Registration

NNUAL REPORT Goal and Efforts:

Outcome: 3 MyPSA members had

Increase MyPSA Member’s involvement in IPSF by: 1.

Promoting on the IPSF Team (Coordinators/Subcommittee) Recruitment 2. Answering queries from MyPSA members regarding IPSF Team and give extra information afterwards

successfully joined the IPSF Team. The details are as follows: Mr. Lim Jian Rong - External Committee Mr. Yee Teck Fah – Public Health Committee Ms. Ong See Jia – Public Health Committee

IPSF Project Grant (Fund from IPSF intended to support event expenses) IPSF AMR Four Frame Comic Poster Challenge IPSF Pharmacy Profession Advocacy Essay Competition Promoted Inter-regional Online Patient Counseling Event and Clinical Skills Event Promoted Call for IPSF Phuture and Pharmacy Education Newsletter (PEN) Articles Promoted Call for 71st World Health Assembly in Geneva Promoted Various Calls for Internship 2017/18 IPSF Executive Call for 18/19 IPSF Team Call for 18/19 IPSF Activity Report (Project Accreditation System)

MyPSA

VICE PRESIDENT 2

IPSF Team 17/18 Promotion to MyPSA Members

Others

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AN Sent relevant information to IPSF regarding MyPSA Officers and few other information.

VICE PRESIDENT 2

Update the IPSF APRO RWG with the latest MyPSA information

Work along with the immediate past VP2, Mr Hilmi Hanapi to monitor the progress of the events as the event was held on December 2017

Event details:

Date 9th – 13th December 2017 (TDC) & 14th – 18th December 2017 (GPPed) Venue Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences (CUCMS) Accommodation Tune Hotel, Cyberjaya

Outcome:

12 participants for TDC – Malaysia (3), Thailand (1), Indonesia (2), New Zealand (1), Egypt (4), Turkey (1) 16 participants for GPPed – Malaysia (5), Indonesia (5), Australia (1), Philippines (4), Sudan (1)

Hosted the 5th IPSF APRO Good Pharmacy Practice Education Program (GPPed) 2017 & the 1st Trainers Development Camp for APRO region

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IPSF Asia Pacific Regional Office (IPSF APRO) Related Matters

Promoted IPSF APRO Poster Competition “Fantastic Parasites and Where to Find Them” Skype meetings with the IPSF APRO Executives and fellow Contact Persons IPSF APRO Country Campaign (in collaboration with PHO) Promoted Invitation from other Association’s International Events to MyPSA members (ISMAFARSI, KNAPS and PSA-Taiwan) World Congress (WC) 2018: Mendoza, Argentina Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium (APPS) 2018: Fujiyoshida, Japan

Others

NNUAL REPORT Goal and Efforts:

Increase MyPSA Member’s involvement in IPSF by: 1. Promoting on the IPSF APRO RWG & Subcommittee (Coordinators/Subcommittee) Recruitment 2. Answering queries from MyPSA members regarding IPSF APRO RWG & Subcommittee and give extra information afterwards.

IPSF APRO RWG & Subcommittee 17/18 Promotion to MyPSA Members

Mr. Desmond Yeoh Tze Wei – Regional Secretary Mr. Muhammad Murtadha bin Mazwil – Regional Multimedia and Publication Officer 7 MyPSA members had successfully joined the IPSF APRO Subcommittees & Coordinators. The details are as follows:

VICE PRESIDENT 2

Outcome

2 MyPSA members had successfully joined the IPSF APRO RWG Team. The details are as follows:

Wong Chun Hoong, IMU – Editorial and Translation Subcommittee Jason Lee Whuan Chuian, Taylor’s University – Regional Pharmacy Education Coordinator Ong See Jia, Nottingham University – Regional Professional Development Coordinator Wong Xin Yun, IMU – Regional Projects Subcommittee Wengkit Huin, UM graduate - Regional Projects Subcommittee Abdullah Hilmi bin Mohd Hanapi, IIUM graduate – Regional Relations Subcommittee Kamarul Kamaruddin, UniKL RCMP - Regional Relations Subcommittee

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MyPSA-Related Matters Introduced MyPSA Coaching for Contact Persons of local associations

VICE PRESIDENT 2

Goal:

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To introduce MyPSA and IPSF structures, executives, and events as well as the roles of Contact Persons in MyPSA to the local association contact persons 2.

To help the contact persons carry out their duties as contact persons are changing every year and activeness of contact persons is important in delivering information to all MyPSA members.

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One of the criteria evaluated in MyPSA Best Contact Person Award The coaching took place via online (Skype) 17 Contact Persons participated

Continue the MyPSA Contact Person Award

Best

Created new marking forms

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criteria

MyPSA Best Contact Person Award Goal

Promoting IPSF and IPSF APRO to MyPSA members and to motivate other MyPSA members to take part actively in IPSF and IPSF APRO. Three persons interviewed were

successfully

Mr Muhammad Murtadha (APRO RMPO) Desmond (APRO Secretary) Ms Ong See Jia (Public Health committees)

Conduct Interview with MyPSA members who had served in IPSF Team and IPSF APRO RWG/Subcommittees

MyPSA

MyPSA Coaching for Contact Persons

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NNUAL REPORT MyPSA’s Know Your Exco Segment Promoted NCPC 2018 and NoGAPS 2018 to fellow IPSF APRO members Others

VICE PRESIDENT 2

MyPSA has been awarded as the Best Association Award in APPS 2018 Japan

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AN Alan Tan Miao Thong | Secretary General

SECRETARY GENERAL

Manifesto Progress and Achievement 1. Creating a Continuous KPI Evaluation System

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uring the first run on the KPI Evaluation System with the current Executive Board, I had discussed with Bryan with regards to the system. Both of us agreed that while the Evaluation system was comprehensive and gave a more accurate description of the performances, each Form to be filled took a significant amount of time to complete and required immense concentration and personal working experience with the Executive Officers under evaluation. Thus, I was tasked with the job of simplifying the system in order to make it easier for the Executive Officers to evaluate without much difficulty.

In addition, the marking system was modified into three evaluation blocks, where the members of each block would evaluate each other’s performances. This method differed from the previous method as it ensured that the evaluating Officers would

MyPSA

Status: Modified to “Simplification of the KPI Evaluation System”

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NNUAL REPORT 2. Releasing the Constitution and Meeting Minutes

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Better rearrangement of related Articles Modification and removal of obsolete clauses Proper restructuring in general

Hence, a significant portion of my work has been dedicated to the restructuring and remodelling of the Constitution to form the Official Documents, which will be discussed below in next section.

While it is my regret that I have not been able to release the Meeting Minutes to the Members itself, a consolation lies in the fact that if Members do want to understand the events that happen in the Meetings, they may do so by either referring to their Mainboards and asking for the Meeting Minutes from them.

SECRETARY GENERAL

The main goal behind releasing the Constitution and the Meeting Minutes was to increase transparency of the Association to the Members. During my scrutiny of the Constitution, I was convinced that there was a need to remodel the Constitution for the following issues:

Status: Partial Achievement in Releasing the Constitution

3. Conducting a Local Leaders in Training for the Members I had mentioned in my manifesto that building up a pool of students who would be useful to the Local Societies and Executive Officers would be done; this idea was culminated in the idea of Metamorphosis, which coincidentally had been part of Bryan’s manifesto as well. I was honoured to assist in the event itself and play a role in building the first pioneer batch of students leaders.

Status: Jointly achieved through Metamorphosis

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AN 4. Mandating the Reception of Annual Reports from the Local Societies

SECRETARY GENERAL

Previous discussions with Miss Rasathi, the previous Secretary General gave me the idea of approaching Mr Low Hao Ran, to assist in implementing this task.

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In truth, the mandating of Annual Reports has been an Article of the MyPSA Constitution for many years, and the goal of this submission is to allow the Executive Officers to understand the individual directions of the Local Societies as well as their current goals.

However, in the event that this goal is no longer achieved through the submission of reports, alternative methods will need to be explored.

Status: Achieved through the help of Project Officer in the Best Society Awards

MyPSA

NNUAL REPORT Creation of MyPSA Constitution Carbon Copy

Additional Achievement

The MyPSA Official Documents

SECRETARY GENERAL

Modification to the Annual General Meeting proceedings

Introduction of Parliamentary Activity and Motions

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AN SECRETARY 2

William Choo Cheng Fei | Secretary 2

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Implement online MyPSA membership status checking system An online membership database has been incorporated into MyPSA official website using a data entry plugin on a WordPress platform. CSV file containing membership database is then uploaded to MyPSA official website and specific membership details can be retrieved using the data entry plugin via a shortcode widget by typing in name or I.C. number of the member, thus, any registered MyPSA member can now check their respective membership number and membership expiry date using this online system.

MyPSA

NNUAL REPORT Campus Promotional Tour

SECRETARY 2

I conducted the tour in UKM and tours in CUCMS, Monash and Taylor’s were done by Reena, Jian Rong and Taylor’s CP respectively. Besides that, I did ask the CPs for request to do campus promotional tour and currently there are four confirmed requested tours which will be carried out by my sub-committees, these include IMU(28/9), AIMST(12/9), UKM(12/9) and SEGi(19/9).

Invitation of new local society University of Reading Malaysia (Reading Malaysia Pharmacy Society) is invited to join MyPSA and registration form is well received. Currently Reading Malaysia Pharmacy Society is fulfilling the 3 out of 4 consecutive meeting attendances in order to become official MyPSA member.

Besides that, Quest International University Perak (QIUP Pharmacy Students' Society) has fulfilled the 3 out of 4 consecutive meetings requirement, thus, QIUP Pharmacy Students' Society will be announced as MyPSA official member in the upcoming MyPSA AGM 2018.

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SCOPE OF DUTIES

TREASURER

Ng Sin Yee| Treasurer •

Managing MyPSA current account and keeping proper account records ( Petty Cash Account and Official bank account)

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Top up petty cash and control its usage

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Produce financial reports

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Request cheque from MPS

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Handling all sponsorship applications from pharmacy school under MyPSA

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Handling MyPSA membership fees payment and provide softcopy receipts for payment made

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Settling all meeting claims from mainboards and excos

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Paying IPSF memberships to IPSF Treasurer every year

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Coordinate with Entrepreneur Officer to facilitate money flow

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Keeping all documents and accounting records up to date

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Planning MyPSA budget and forecasting future financial decisions and positions which contribute to the stability of Associations

MyPSA

NNUAL REPORT Financial Workshop

Not feasible because due to leaving of finance lecturer from Taylor’s after stepping up. Not that practical due to conduct the workshop despite the new events from exco such as Metamorphosis and Step Up Academy. Overloading of new events burden the financial position of MyPSA at that moments. Focus on training of subcommittees to handle MyPSA accounting aspects.

TREASURER

Create a deadline for submission of sponsorship request from MyPSA

Not practical but coordinating with the Executive Officer is the key to achieve the smooth flow of money transaction. Managing the time gap between requesting the money and the urgency of the request is more essential.

Utilise subcommittees to facilitate smooth flow of treasurer

I had fully utilise subcommittees as manpower during this term. They are aware of the assigned jobscopes and work together to achieve this.

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AN Low Hao Ran | Project Officer

PROJECT OFFICER

Manifesto Progress and Achievement Manifesto 1: Ensure both the annual events, NoGAPS and NPSC can be organized unmistakably.

Achieved | Date 29th September – 2nd October 2018

Date May or April 2019

Venue SEGi University, Kota Damansara

Venue Cyberjaya University College Medical Sciences (CUCMS)

Organised by MyPSA A new concept had been introduced in which the organizing committees are recruited from various universities and is direct organised under MyPSA unlike the previous years where MyPSA NoGAPS is hosted under one university or collaboration among few universities.

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Organised by CUPSS CUCMS Despite the challenges, CUPSS CUCMS had stand out to bid for the 12th MyPSA NPSC 2019.

MyPSA

This concept was introduced due to no bidder for the national event and the attempt calling for collaboration failed.

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Both the 13th MyPSA NoGAPS 2018 and 12th MyPSA NPSC 2019 were secured with host.

NNUAL REPORT Manifesto 2 : Refine the guidelines for both NoGAPS and NPSC to suit the current circumstances.

Remain | Unchanged

There are no major changes required for MyPSA Official Guideline - SOP National Event Bidding and MyPSA Official Guideline - Organizing a National Event.

Manifesto 3 : Refine the guideline and the system of the MyPSA Best Awards.

had been revise to suit the current situation.

Besides, a document entitled Clarification of MyPSA Best Awards 201718 was prepared to clarify the doubts that are not stated clearly in the official documents aforementioned, hence to standardise the merit calculation. The standardisation was discussed and endorsed by all award committees 2017/2018.

PROJECT OFFICER

Achieved |

The official documents OD004 – Selection for MyPSA Best Society Award 201718 OD005 – Selection for MyPSA Best Student Award 201718 OD006 - Guidelines for MyPSA Awards Committee 201718

Manifesto 4 : Maintain an effective communication with the OC of the annual events in order to manage the progression of the events.

Achieved |

When face-to-face meeting is not feasible, an online Skype meeting will be conducted at least once a month to monitor the progression of the event preparation. WhatsApp group was actively used as the platform to discuss any issues of the events with the organising committees. To improve the monitoring of the event progression, a good rapport is built with the high committees of the events.

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AN Manifesto 5 : To train and build a strong team to execute the job scopes via an effective team management.

PROJECT OFFICER

Achieved |

Each subcommittee was assigned with specific tasks and chances are given to allow the subcommittee to involve in each job scopes under MyPSA Project Officer. Monthly online meeting was conducted to update the progress of each subcommittees and discuss on any issues arise. Constantly update the subcommittees on the issues under PEO’s job scopes and together find out the solutions.

Additional Achievements To keep track the history of both the MyPSA National Events.

To create a systematic way to keep the official documents of the events, hence ease for reference.

Project Database for MyPSA NoGAPS and MyPSA NPSC

MyPSA To keep track the winners of the MyPSA Best Awards. Creating a “Hall of Fame” of MyPSA to record the achievements of the local societies as well as the pharmacy students.

Award Database for MyPSA Best Awards

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NNUAL REPORT The main goal is to allow the Pharmacy students to be able to use MyPSA as a platform to propose and execute national-scale events that may benefit them and other students

Application to organise events under MyPSA

The concept is that all universities will take up the responsibility and contribute to the continuity of National Pharmacy Sports Carnival (NPSC) in 2019.

PROJECT OFFICER

Since previously there is no bidder for the next 12th MyPSA NPSC 2019 despite of all the appropriate actions to secure a host had been taken, a Plan B for NPSC 2019 had been prepared and proposed in order to ensure continuity of the event.

Each university will require to organise at least one sport event (modern games like badminton, basketball, futsal and etc.) The organising committees of respective university should comprises a chairperson, secretary, treasurer, sport team, registration team, food & beverage team, accommodation and transportation team.

This team of organising committees will be termed as Sub-team. All the sub-team will be coordinated under a Headquater (HQ) Team which comprises project director, general secretary, general treasurer, sponsorship team and publication & multimedia team.

Before this Plan B being proposed to MyPSA Mainboards, a good news from CUCMS that they will take up the challenge and host the 12th MyPSA NPSC 2019.

Application to organise events under MyPSA

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AN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

Lisa Lydia A/P G. Philip | Professional Development Officer

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Manifesto Progress and Achievement Standardising mechanisms, setting question banks, assisting in finding host for National Pharmacy Quiz & Piala Aishah and National Pharmacy Debate Competition

Setting up Question Banks to ensure enough questions to be used in National Events Standardising mechanisms and ensuring the events are executed according to the mechanisms set With the help of VP2, to secure grants from IPSF for National Events Increase participation of students in IPSF Online Quizzes

MyPSA

NNUAL REPORT

Photography Session in National Pharmacy Quiz & Piala Aishah 2018

Photography Session in National Pharmacy Debate Competition 2018

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

The champion of 5th MyPSA NPDC: IIUM

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AN EDUCATION OFFICER

Tan Hui Yin| Education Officer It has been successfully held on 23rd February – 25th February 2018 at Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Royal College Of Medicine Perak. The theme of the event was “Transforming Creativity into A Scientific Research Knowledge”. The sponsorship from MyPSA has risen to RM 1000 from RM 500 due to the massive amount of budget with the approval from mainboards. There were 32 participants with a total participation from 7 universities

MyPSA 1st National Pharmacy Research Competition

Opening Ceremony of MyPSA 1st National Pharmacy Research Competition

Participant was doing preparation for poster exhibition.

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NNUAL REPORT Step-Up Academy

EDUCATION OFFICER

It is successfully held on 3rd March 2018 on MPS Puchong with collaboration with Personal Development Officer and Entrepreneurship Officer. The slogan is Transcend Your Limits. Mr Chong Chin Pin, Mr Yong Wei Shian and Mr John Yeo Keh Hau were presenting on Clinical Skill, Entrepreneurship skill and Personal Development Skill respectively.

There were 22 participants and the overall comment is good. However, the depth of the content should be revised in order to suit Year 3 and Year 4 students.

It is another source to continue the aims of PharmaStudio to share information. It will be shared twice a month on MyPSA Facebook page. The information is gained from KKM official page.

Sharing of vetted information from KKM

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AN Tan Ze Song | Public Health Officer

PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER

Status

Remark

In Progress

Carrying out a nationwide online campaign to increase public motivation (targeting students first) in adopting a healthier lifestyle, particularly by emphasizing on sleep quality, balanced diet, physical activity and mental health.

The campaign is started late (in September 2018) as compared to the planned timeline because of the other concurrent task during the period. The scope is focused on healthy lifestyle by encouraging the public to spend 30 minutes a day in doing activities beneficial for health. The campaign is named as “Invest 30 Challenge”.

In Progress

Enhancing the active involvement of MyPSA and local societies in conducting public health events initiated by IPSF APRO

Promote health information and manage online campaigns in conjunction with the similar IPSF APRO campaign. The online campaigns are as follows: •Malaysia Country Campaign: Dengue, Zika & Chikungunya •Traditional Medicine Campaign •Movember campaign •Antimicrobial Resistance Campaign •Anti-counterfeit Drug Campaign

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Manifesto

Working towards the involvement of all universities in collaboration with MyPSA when organizing Public Health Campaigns t

Manage to involve local pharmacy societies from 19 universities to organize Public Health Campaigns in collaboration with MyPSA as compared to 17 universities in the previous year. Only 1 member local society didn’t manage to organize the PHC in collaboration with MyPSA this year.

NNUAL REPORT Status Successful

Manifesto Forming a dedicated team to disseminate health-related information shared by health authorities more actively to the public.

Remark Regularly share health-related information by IPSF, IPSF APRO, WHO, KKM, etc.

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Initiate the mandatory incorporation of either Pharmacy Profession Awareness Campaign, Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Campaign or Blood Donation campaign within the Public Health Campaign 2018 organized by local pharmacy societies. The 3 elements/campaigns mentioned are important to increase the public awareness on the roles of pharmacists and the issue of antimicrobial resistance as well as increase the participation rate of public and students in donating blood to save life.

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Work together with President of MyPSA to discuss and establish the collaboration with Malaysia Green Lung Association (MGLA) for the coming 1 year. Discuss and establish the mechanism of collaboration whereby the local pharmacy societies may gain the benefit in terms of knowledge sharing and monetary support when conducting smoking cessation activities in the coming 1 year.

PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER

More emphasis on certain topics were also given when in conjunction with certain health days such as World Diabetes Day, World AIDS/HIV Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Malaria Day, World Immunization Week, World Hepatitis Day, etc.

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Involve MyPSA in IPSF Regular Vampire Cup 2017/2018 by encouraging the universities to organize blood donation campaign. Managed to obtain a total of 736 blood donors during the blood donation campaign organized by 8 university local pharmacy societies (since March 2018)

MyPSA

Additional Achievements

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Step-Up Academy

ENTREPRENEURSHIP OFFICER

Taasjir Kaur | Entrepreneurship Officer Event Organizer Entrepreneurship Officer, Education Officer and Professional Development Officer, MyPSA Event venue Wisma MPS, KL Date 3rd of March Number of participants 21 Participants Objectives To enhance and develop personal and professional development among pharmacy students with leadership, management and skill-focused resources.

To provide pharmacy students with an opportunity to develop entrepreneurial, leadership and management skills relevant to the field.

To develop clinical competency and communication skills among the future pharmacist.

MyPSA

Event venue Wisma MPS, KL Date 27th-29th July 2018 Number of participant 60 participants Objectives: To introduce the general idea of entrepreneurship to the pharmacy students To promote problem-solving skills among pharmacy students To encourage pharmacy students to create more innovations in geriatric care.

To allow pharmacy students to experience pitching of a business idea.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP OFFICER

Event Organizer Entrepreneurship Officer, MyPSA

Young Entrepreneur Program (YEP) 2018

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP OFFICER

MyPSA T-shirts Quantity Colour XS Purple 6 Navy Blue 15 Maroon 19

S 8 21 12

M 23 19

L 2 3 -

XL 1 1

MyPSA MyPSA T-shirts

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Total Quantity 16 63 51 130

NNUAL REPORT MyPSA Lanyard

So far, 180 lanyards has been sponsored to PGCF and 60 to YEP. There was also extra 10 lanyards sold to AMU with RM4.00 each.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP OFFICER

Total of 240 lanyards were given out as a sponsorship item to events that are hosted by Excos excluding those that are hosted by respective universities.

MyPSA Lanyard

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AN NETWORKING OFFICER

Lim Jian Rong|Networking Officer MyPSA Pharmacy Graduate Career Forum • •

Held on 21st July 2018 (Sat) at Taylor’s University, Lakeside Campus.

157 participants (including the steering committee and attending representatives), speakers from Alpro Pharmacy, Ministry of Health and AbbVie, as well as representatives from the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society and its Young Pharmacist Chapter.

MyPSA

Events Attended Local Society

2018 - Monash University’s Public Health Campaign 2018 - Monash University’ Career Talk 2018 2018 - Monash University’s Sir John Monash Lecture

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National Organization

2017 - MPS Celik Ubat Semina 2017 - Asian Young Pharmaci 2017 - Malaysian Innovative H 2018 - Pharmaceutical Industr 2018 - Malaysian Clinical Phar 2018 - MyPSA’s Meeting with P 2018 - Metamorphosis (Phase 2018 - Malaysian Pharmaceut 2018 - Malaysian Pharmaceut 2018 - BFM Health & Living Pub

NNUAL REPORT Partnership Programme •

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NETWORKING OFFICER

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Programme was initiated in 2017, as a continuous effort of the previous networking officer and her executive assistants with the objective of establishing professional partnership and generate additional income with renowned pharmaceutical companies and health-based non-governmental organization.

Modifications on mechanismis were made, are the programme was reinforced with a pitch deck prior to its official commencement.

A partnership prospectus (revamped with corporate-style design), a draft on partnership tier and standard operating procedures have been proofread and compiled by the end of 2018.

The programme, was unfortunately, aborted in early March upon consulting Datin Mariani Ahmad Nizaruddin (the national advisor of MyPSA) and Mr. Seah Chung-yi (president of MyPSA).

Rationale behind the abortion is as follows: o MyPSA was initially registered with the Registry of Society. o The status was expired but the executive committee was unaware. o As MyPSA now exist as a student chapter instead of an independent society/ organization, any initiative involving official partnership needs to go through the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society. o That defeats the purpose of MyPSA wanting to become financially independent, hence, the programme was called off.

International Body

2017 - IPSF’s Trainers Development Camp 2017 - IPSF’s Good Pharmacy Practice Camp 2017 - IPSF APRO’ Regional Working Group Meeting (With RRO)

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AN STUDENTS EXCHANGE OFFICER

Alyia Farhana Binti Muhadzir | Students Exchange Officer

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Manifesto Progress and Achievement Manifesto 1: Create strong bonds between Student Exchange Officer and subcommittees and also among subcommittees To gather all of the subcommittees and the Student Exchange Officer at least once For example, organising a team building for the SEP Team

Successfully | Implemented

On January 13th, 2018, the first team building was held in KLCC .

11 out of 22 subcommittees participated, together with Student Exchange Officer.

I have also met the other subcommittees during MyPSA General Meetings, SEP Trips and welcoming the incoming students.

MyPSA

NNUAL REPORT Manifesto 2: Create our own merchandise on SEP Malaysia

To gain funds by selling it to MyPSA members and to the public To give to the Exchange Students that will be doing SEP in Malaysia as souvenir

Due to some problems arise, the merchandises were changed with only cap, drawstring bag, lanyard, totebag, t-shirt and tumbler. On June 19th, 2018, the merchandises were officially marketed on all social media platform (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). The mechanism of the merchandise is to collect at least 50 minimum pre-order to proceed with ordering from the vendor.

After discussing with MyPSA Treasurer, Ms Sin Yee and my SEP Team, we had decided to give drawstring bags as souvenirs to the incoming students, instead of t-shirt. Drawstring bags are much lower cost than t-shirt.

The merchandise did not get much attention, so I decided to do extension. I have decided to only focus on some of the merchandise that have buyers, to get at least 50 minimum orders. The merchandises were focused to only cap, drawstring bag, t-shirt and lanyard.

However, after the deadline extension, the orders are quite the same. I came up with a new mechanism, in which I ordered 50 caps, 50 drawstring bags and 50 lanyards using my own money first. After the merchandise were purchased by the buyers, the money for the cost of the merchandise will go into my bank account while the profit will be used to sponsor the souvenirs – 22 drawstring bags, and to support some expenses during SEP such as SEP Trip. While for those that have ordered the t-shirts, the buyer will be given an option, either to get refund, or change to other merchandise.

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Brainstorming was done since early of the mandate, where all subcommittees voice out their opinion on the suitable merchandises to sell and to give as souvenirs. The final decision of the merchandises include cap, drawstring bag, lanyard, notebook, totebag, t-shirt and tumbler. Designing was done by Local Student Exchange Officers (LEOs) of Publication Squad. While contacting and ordering the merchandises were done by Local Student Exchange Officers (LEOs) of Lodging Squad.

Due to time constraint, the merchandise finished a little late where 6 out of the 22 exchange students did not get the drawstring bags.

The task now is to finish all of the merchandises – 50 drawstring bags, 50 caps and 50 lanyards

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incoming students.

However, we managed to organise a visit to one of the pharmaceutical companies in Malaysia, Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad (CCM) located in Bangi. The visit was organised on August 6th, 2018 I also managed to get placement in hospital, Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for the duration of 2 weeks starting 30th July – 10th August.

Hence, the total for field of work during SEP in Malaysia is 3, research, community and hospital.

Manifesto 4: Organize a university visit for the incoming students

MyPSA At least one university visits To get a glimpse of Malaysian pharmacy education and its environment

approaching a few universities for the Successfully | After university visit, Taylor’s University gave a good answer. We had organised a university visit to Implemented Taylor's University on 30th July 2018

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NNUAL REPORT Additional Achievements

SEPharmily Team Building

CCM Visit

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Nominated as Best IPSF Student Exchange Officer of December Nominated and awarded as Best IPSF Student Exchange Officer of June Nominated as Top 3 Best IPSF APRO Student Exchange Officer of the Year 2017/2018 Nominated as Best IPSF Student Exchange Officer of the Year 2017/2018 Successfully organising Summer Student Exchange Programme for the year of 2017/2018 MyPSA was awarded as APRO Best Association Award 2017/2018

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Leong Chee Hong|Multimedia Officer

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SCOPE OF DUTIES • • • •

Announcements Countdowns Reminders Fun Facts

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Facebook Page 5216 likes → 5651 likes Instagram 1401 followers → 1490 followers Twitter 440 followers → 546 followers

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Facebook group 9435 members → 9880 members

Additional Achievement

Limit Quota of 2 posts per day → To ensure members get updated and focus on MyPSA events

Limit 2 posts per tenure for each university → Can be related to pharmacy and unrelated to MyPSA

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AN Jong Pei Joo| Publication Officer

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whole new thing – MyPSA member handbook had been successfully completed by me and my team. I am glad that this handbook had received good feedback from many EXCOs as it can let the new members of MyPSA as well as the pharmacy students from oversea know more about MyPSA. However, I hope this handbook can be printed in hardcopy form so that it can be distributed and benefit the target readers as mentioned above if financial status permits.

There were a total of 3 MyPSA Newsletter were published during this tenure which are March, June and October issue. March and June issue consist of report of MyPSA annual event, educational article written by the pharmacy students, public health campaign carried out during this tenure and so on. However, October issue is more on the annual report of the EXCOs. It was truly a pleasure to work for MyPSA and I enjoyed it although it was tough sometimes. I not only felt passionate about my job but I put passion into it. Thank you MyPSA for being part of my life!

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Success |

It was planned to print out the hardcopy and distribute to every members of MyPSA initially. However, it failed to implement due to limited budget. The problem was solved by uploading the softcopy to www.issuu.com so the members can read the member handbook via online access.

Manifesto 2: Error-free Certificates

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Double check the details on the certificates with the member list before printing out the hardcopy to prevent waste of association fund. Have more than one subcommittees assist in checking the details of the certificates.

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Subcommittees are willing to help in carrying out this task.

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A whole new idea which is designed to serve as a guidance for the new members of MyPSA to let them have a clear picture of MyPSA. The member handbook consists of the content like vision, mission, national events, organisational structure and jobscope of every EXCOs.

Manifesto 3: Update the event column on Facebook group/page Collaborate with Multimedia Officer to update the event column on Facebook group or page.

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With the help of Multimedia Officer, we had added events like National Pharmacy Research Competition in the event column of MyPSA Facebook group. However, some events like Public Health Campaign by certain universities have their own Facebook page and the committees had updated the event in their respective Facebook page, hence these events wouldn’t be added in event column of MyPSA Facebook platform to avoid duplication.

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AN The format in document form was created to serve as a reference for the EXCOs as well as the organising committees in preparing report for publication purpose. The content must be included such as event date, venue, outcome etc and the optional content are mentioned in the format prepared. The suggested word count is included in the document as well.

Format for Newsletter Report Article

AGM promotional cover photo

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Additional Achievements

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AN Yeoh Ee Theng | Advocacy Officer

ADVOCACY OFFICER

Events Conducted The forensic exam workshop was conducted to help students from various universities to enhance their answering skills of the forensic exam. This was mainly conducted due to the high failure rate of the forensic exam whereby negative marking was initiated. Pass year questions were discussed during this workshop.

Students feed backed that the workshop was useful and food provided were appropriated. Besides, every participant was given a self-designed key chair as souvenir.

MyPSA Qualifying Exam Workshop Date Venue Time Targeted speaker Number of participants

: 5th May 2018 : Wisma MPS, Puchong : 8.30 am until 1.00 pm : Mr Azman Yahy : 75 students

Pharmacy Graduate Career Forum was our first combined event with Networking Officer, which gather the essence of pharmacy graduate forum and career talk that were held from previous years. This forum aims to help pharmacy students or graduated pharmacy students to identify and solidify their career pathway in the pharmacy professional and embrace the PRP Challenges. This event consisted of 2 important elements; which were further career pathway development in hospital, community and industrial settings; and PRP challenges. All participants

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: 21st July 2018 : Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus : 8.00am until 5.30pm : 110

NNUAL REPORT Date: 18th August 2018 (Klang Valley) 25th September 2018 (National)

World Pharmacist Day

Pharmacy Graduate Career Forum

with the theme “Turning Challenges Into Opportunities� had been organised to inform pharmacy students and recent graduates about the information pertinent to PRP trainings and its potential challenges, it also aimed to capacitate participants with network and contacts which will essentially develop their career pathway.

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MyPSA had been given tasks on posters and videos preparation, two main focussed topics which were Medicine Package Labelling and Complete Prescription. Initially, posters were designed by Advocacy Officer, then followed

by Multimedia Officer for posters refinement. Advocacy Officer worked together with Education Officer throughout the World Pharmacist Day preparation. Details on the activities and content for booth viewing on event day are yet to be discussed with Datin and MPS.

This project aimed to broaden the views and perspectives of participants, and informed them about the working situation in their coming PRP trainings. Also, we aimed to rendezvous and provided networking opportunities to the renowned leaders and participants. Hence, we can conclude that the manifesto was successfully achieved by organising this forum.

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AN Besides the duties, Advocacy Officer worked closely with Datin, ready to help Datin with special tasks throughout the tenure. Specials tasks that had been carried out were:

4th Pharmaceutical Research Conference 2018

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Venue Cyberjaya University College of Medical Science(CUCMS) Date 24th - 26th August 2018 Job scope Promotional materials (Eg registration details, event content posters) were shared to MyPSA members via MyPSA Facebook group.

Informative and short captions were written and posted along with the posters (prepared by the organiser)

Non MyPSA Workshop: Translation of genomic data into precision healthcare Venue Le Quadri Ballroom, USCI College(North Wing) Date 8th February 2018 Job scope Promoted this event to local students via MyPSA Facebook group Simple and brief captions are prepared by executive officer of Adhoc

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NNUAL REPORT MPS Manifesto (14th Malaysia General Election)

Job scope Manifesto hardcopy were given out to the students from different universities during the Qualifying Exam Workshop. “The voices of pharmacists to be heard in GE-14�(4 languages version) documents were disseminated to all university contact persons via email.

Each university was requested to take at least 2 photos with respective school dean/lecturers or any party candidates while holding the manifesto hardcopy.

Photos were collected in a google drive and sent to Datin and MPS.

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Date In conjunction of the general election

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MyPSA November 2018 Issue

NATIONAL EVENT

AN NPQPA 10th MyPSA National Pharmacy Quiz & Piala Aishah 2018

Compounding Thoughts, Dispensing Ideas

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he Competency Cup, Piala Aishah 2018 was held on 21st April 2018 at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz Campus with the theme: “Compounding Thoughts, Dispensing Ideas”. 11 universities consisting of 19 teams with 38 participants were part of this prestigious competition. The event began with welcoming ceremony around 9 a.m. that started with welcoming speech from the Project Director, Ms. Hafizah binti Mahmood Ali. Then, the participants were brought to the Formulation Lab where they were briefed about the rules & regulation and the Competency Cup mechanism before the round started. Each team were given 45 minutes to plan, organize and prepare the product in response to task given and also to answer the product related questions on the answer sheet provided.

A prescription of Calamine Lotion (80 ml) was presented to challenge the compounding skills of the participants.

Since there were two participants in a team, both participants divided their time productively in order to compound the required preparation as well as answer the questions based on the preparation. The questions included the ingredients used and their functions in ensuring the stability and efficiency of the product. In addition to that, the participants’ ability to interpret the methodology of preparation on paper with much precision in calculation and terminologies used is also examined. The participants had to master basic pharmaceutical technology and its principles in depth in order to answer these questions.

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NNUAL EVENT There were four judges involved in this competition, namely, Dr. Muhammad Salahuddin bin Haris @ Harith from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Associate Prof. Dr. Zainol Akbar Zainal from Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences (CUCMS), Dr. Fazren Azmi and Associate Prof. Dr. Haliza Katas from The National University of Malaysia (UKM).

The champion for Competency Cup was awarded with the Aishah Cup together with a token of appreciation from UKM and also certificate of achievement.

We hope that this completion gave a chance to the students to test on their knowledge and skills related to pharmaceutics. A good teamwork is essential especially while working in pairs to prepare the extemporaneous preparation and we hope that it is an aspiration that this annual event will be able to increase the level of quality and competency amongst future pharmacists. On the whole, this event can surely contribute to an improved and better pharmacy profession development in Malaysia.

Winners of National Pharmacy Quiz

Champion : Team IIUM B 1st Runner Up : Team IMU A 2nd Runner Up : Team IMU B

Piala Aishah

Champion : Team IMU A 1st Runner Up : Team USM B 2nd Runner Up : Team IMU B

With utmost hope, we believe that this event would benefit pharmacy students in Malaysia as we managed to achieve all our aims and objectives of this event. The students can directly gain new insight and be able to develop themselves. It is believed that this event can strengthen the established network between all schools of Pharmacy in Malaysia under the banner of MyPSA. The pharmacy students practise their communication skills together with the students from other universities by participating in all of the activities carried out in this event. We hope that the pharmacy students can brush up their skills in preparing extemporaneous preparation that is much needed when they work in hospital setting in future.

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Trust . Advice . Care

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n this modern era, young adults not only need to gain knowledge for their future, but also need to gain some experience in real life. Especially in clinical pharmacy, students need to have sufficient knowledge on pharmacotherapy and respective application on the patients. Although this can be tested via exam, yet there is still a need for students to gain experience on it.

With this intention, SEGi Pharmacy Students Association (SPSA) organized the 4th National Clinical Pharmacy Competition (NCPC) on 6th to 8th April 2018. Generally, NCPC is an annual event under Malaysian Pharmacy Students’ Association (MyPSA) involving students from 19 pharmacy schools around Malaysia. This competition is an opportunity that should not be missed by the pharmacy students to gain insight and able to have lasting relations with their peers as well as enhancing communication and soft skills. But not just that, NCPC also encourage collaboration, leadership and self-confidence among participants.

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NNUAL EVENT In this NCPC competition, there were preliminary rounds (MCQ), opening round (OSCE), semi-final round (SAQ) and grand final round (case presentation). All topics in this competition were taken from all the universities to prevent biasness.

During the competition, all the participants showed their knowledge gained throughout their 4 years of Bachelor of Pharmacy course.

The competition ran smoothly with all the hard work of committees and corporation of participants. The participants show their enthusiasm and dedication throughout the competition. The participants also demonstrate their capabilities in analyzing the case and question even though they only given a short time. On 8th April 2018, the competition ended successfully with a photography session.

As a conclusion, this event acts as a medium for the pharmacy students to enrich their quality of soft skills, especially in clinical pharmacy. We believe that this clinical pharmacy competition is a healthy competition among students to strengthen the ties of the students among all the faculty of pharmacy and empowers students’ clinical pharmacy knowledge as well as systemic approach on clinical problem-solving.

Champion: Team A from International Medical University (IMU) 1st runner-up: Team B from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) 2nd runner-up: SEGi University

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MyPSA November 2018 Issue

INTERNATIONAL EVENT

INT TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR & LEADERSHIP TRAINING (IALTC)

Venue: Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan Date: 8th – 10th July 2018 Organiser: PSA-Taiwan

International Affairs & Leadership Training Camp, also called IALTC as its abbreviation. This camp is a three-day event hosted

by PSA-Taiwan from 8th July to 10th July. The aim of the event is to let pharmacy students more aware of the international affairs among IPSF and APRO region and meanwhile strengthen their soft, leadership skills to train potential leaders in the near future.

There are 41 participants totally involved, 2 delegates from APS-Japan, 3 delegates from KNAPS-Korea, 9 delegates from MyPSA-Malaysia, 3 IPSF SEP students from Poland and France, and also 14 Taiwanese local pharmacy students. This news report would like to present readers the sessions, lectures, and workshops we had during IALTC. Let us lead you to pass through what we experienced these three days! Viva la Pharmacie!

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TERNATIONAL Feedbacks from Participants

ANG MEI FEN, UKM, 1st year

Before attending the camp, I expected that I could learn new things that are not taught in the lecture, like how to engage in the international affairs in pharmacy field, what are the international pharmacy organizations and so on. During the camp, I have learned industrial pharmacy practice, the general details of international affairs and organizations of pharmacy, and the events held and the ways to participate. This camp broadens my horizon and increases my knowledge on pharmacy practice and international affairs. I could easily engage in the events that I would like to take part in.

NURUL AIMAN IZZATI BINTI MOHD FAIRUS, UNIKL RCMP, 2nd Year

Well, before we all go to Taiwan, I was expecting something deeper about pharmacy as I don’t really exposed to pharmacy project even in Malaysia. I was also expecting new bpharm friends from all around the world as we can build some connection and work together the future. I also expect to have more exposure about leadership as it is leadership camp. When we were there, there are lots of new things we had gained. I am more exposed to international programme which I never thought is existed. There are so many international programme that actually we can join to improve our skill, sharing ideas and make lots of friend. I only knew that bpharm programme not necessary for 4 years. Well, I thought it only will take for 4 years. From my perspective, I think we can involve more in international event. Well we can actively involve in those programme rather than only being a nerdy pharmacist for our lifetime.

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NUR FATIN SYAHIRAH BINTI CHE RADZI, UNIKL RCMP, 2nd Year Before going to the International Affair and Leadership Training Camp, I expected the camp to be a quite serious and tense programme just like most camps that i have been attended before. On the other hand, i also expected to gain more knowledge about leadership and able to express myself more during the camp besides elevating my confidence level. During the camp, it is very fun and enjoyful as the facilitators were very lenient and sporting.

They always try their best to fulfill participants’ requirement throughout the camp. The speakers that has been assigned during the symposium also has alot of experiences and knowledge that we were very happy to meet them and learn things. So, as ive attended the camp, i think that the skill to talk infront of people that have been taught at the camp can be applied in the society as to increase the soft skills of pharmacy students.

TAN KAI QIN, UKM, 1st Year I had no confidence in myself before this. I was nervous and a bit of stress si the day I found that everyone is nice and friendly. An ice-breaking session co out. All the following activities surprised me. The programme was carried ou things and informations about our future career such as all the internationa also pharmacy services in other countries. We also had a visit to TTY Biopharm In my opinion, this event benefits me a lot by building my self-confidence and exchange many informations regarding the pharmacy system in our coun students in all countries, which will be useful in our future.

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TERNATIONAL HENG XI WEN, CUCMS, 1st Year Originally, I expected that It’ll be a knowledgeable and fun trip before I went there but it turns out that the camp actually exceeded my expectations as they organize trips to the industry, talks about international affairs and also the importance of working together if you are a leader of a team. I think that the skills and new perspective that I’ve had in Taiwan enables me to contribute to the pharmacy association as a member by leading a group of youths to work out similar events to build up future leaders and increase networking chances for all pharmacy students in the association. Not only that, I can share these knowledge and skills to others so that Malaysia will have more future leaders that help improve Malaysia into a modern and futuristic country in the near future.

ince I thought that IALTC might be a tough event for me. On onnected everybody and I realised it is not a hard thing to step ut in a easy and stress-free way yet we learned a lot of new al pharmacy associations, pharmacy education systems and m and given a thorough view of the operation of the industry. d connecting me with more people. During the event we had ntries and this can build up the network between pharmacy

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NUR HUSNA IFFAH BT SUHAIDI, UNIKL RCMP, 2nd Year I would like to express my gratitude for giving me the chance to join the International Affairs and Leadership Training Camp (IALTC) through Malaysian Pharmacy Student Association (MyPSA). When I first find out about this program, I was curious about how well this program had taken place before and looked forward to be aware of other pharmacy society in other countries too. Thus, we can make a wide range of connection between us.

Positive feedbacks were blooming about this program.

Ever since that, a keen interest towards this program has been budding inside me as this was my first-time experience to be involve in this kind of programme.

Besides that, this program helped me to have a global link with the people all around the world because we shared our thoughts and opinions about the pharmacy system of each country. Their pharmacy practices are different in terms of technology, counselling, services, treatment and many more but the most important aspect that attract me is their professionalism. Their professionalism has set my bar to the maximum as I really want to grow and increasing my maturity bit by bit. In addition, I was also exposed to the difference between IPSF, WHA and WHO and got the details how we can actually participate in these organizations and related events. Of course, I should be saying that the time we had to learn all necessary things regarding the international relations and leadership skills was not enough but I would be applying all of the things that I learnt from this program to the fullest in real life. As what I have stated before, there are lot of pros and cons from each country so it depends on us to figure out the best way to practice the pros and to overcome and avoid the cons. Lastly, this is truly an open door for me to enrich my skills as a pharmacist to be for the future that lies ahead.

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TERNATIONAL LING JIA YEE, UKM, 1st Year Before I went to this camp, I expect that I will get to know many friends who are from different countries and study in the same course with me which is Pharmacy. Besides, I expected that I will see different leadership skills from students from other countries. However, what I had learned from IALTC is more than everything that expected. I get to know many different international affairs that are responsible to improve the nation's health and fight for pharmacists' right. I knew that some of them do help Malaysia in fighting for dispensing rights too. From here, I saw how pharmacists from different countries show their leadership skills and unite to improve this profession. I think that the leadership skills showed by them have inspired me to be brave and be confident to speak in front of people for example in every pharmacy activities which held by my university and also MyPSA. I will challenge myself by holding more higher committee positions in different associations and get experiences from those activities. I know that these will help me a lot in my future life as a pharmacist.

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INT NURUL EHFFA BT ABDUL RAUF, UNIKL RCMP, 2nd Year At first, I was expecting that the camp was going to be hard because of our languange barier and afraid of the camp was gonna challenging. My assumption was wrong as the camp was very entertaining. The facilitator had successfully turn the activities into something that very enjoyable for us but in the same time educational and they were also very fluent in English.

Every activities that had been done have their own specific goals that help us to learn more on how to be leader and i like it very much. We were also welcomed like a long lost son by all the facilitator when we arrived. I never thought i'd fit into such a new environment so quickly. After 3 great days, we came back to Malaysia. Certainly i will apply all my knowledge that i had learnt from the camp in my daily life as a future pharmacist. For instance, the interpersonal and communication skills can help me in not only improve myself but also to become not only just a normal pharmacist but an all rounded one. As i also learnt on how to manage and keep a good teamwork in a team, i can definitely use this skill to become a better leader in the future. To conclude, it was a very good and meaningful leadership camp.

I hope i can participate more in the future.

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TERNATIONAL JANNATUL NAIMAH SOLEHAH BINTI SHAFEI, UNIKL RCMP, 2nd Year Last July, I have been given the chance to participate an International Affairs Leadership Training Camp in Taiwan. My expectation for this camp was to be able to learn important soft skills and technique to become a better leader as a future pharmacist. I felt very grateful to be able to join this camp as I have learn more than what I expected. I have been exposed about how to participate international events, international association and pharmacy education throughout the world. This camp helps me to become more confident to involve in international event on future and increase the eagerness to increase my soft skills and knowledge as a pharmacy student from time to time.

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INT INTERVIEW MyPSA Members in IPSF/ IPSF APRO

Tell us your name, university and hometown.

Muhammad Murtadha bin Mohd Mazwil, Graduate of IIUM Kuantan, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan Hello, my name is Yeoh Tze Wei, I'm from the International Medical University and my hometown is Ipoh, Perak.

Hello! My name is Ong See Jia, I’m from the University of Nottingham and I’m based in KL. What is your current position in IPSF / IPSF APRO and what do you do?

IPSF APRO Regional Media and Publications Officer I'm currently serving as the Secretary of IPSF APRO and my main task is documentation.

Besides, I work closely with the other Regional Officers and support them in any aspects.

APRO Regional Projects Subcommittee IPSF Public Health Activities Team

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TERNATIONAL Tell us how do you get to know IPSF and what is your motivation to be in IPSF/IPSF APRO team?

I know mostly about IPSF from my friend, Hilmi Hanapi, which is also the immediate past VP2 of MyPSA. I joined the Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium 2016, South Korea under his suggestion. In APPS 2016 Regional Assembly, my eyes are somehow opened when i saw people from different countries sitting on the same desk, managing an organization together (RWGs).

When i searched more, they even traveled for meetings together and they are really close to each other. From that moment onward, i was determined to take the same step as them in the future and now, i did.

My journey with IPSF started with the online Clinical Skills Event in May 2017 that was shared on the MyPSA Facebook Page. Soon after that, I noticed the Facebook post about the Leaders in Training and Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium in Bangkok 2017 Thailand. At that moment, I decided to take the initiative to take part in the Leaders in Training program despite my exams on the following week. I have to say that the experience was amazing and I get to know people from other countries such as Taiwan and Indonesia.

I actually got to know about IPSF overseas when I was in England. I came back and immediately signed up for the events since back then it was in right next door (Bangkok). I was very lucky to have been given the chance to represent our country internationally, thank you MyPSA. After joining 2 IPSF conferences and 2 training programmes. The experience has inspired me to learn more and contribute to the federation.

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Please name one of the many challenges you faced while being in the position and how do you overcome it?

Time management; I dont have a good time management skills. I always prioritize things that I love first before any other things. Now, I am suffering the consequences which I had to work extensively to correct the wrongs.

One of the major challenges that I faced is that some of the the Contact Persons are unresponsive or they do not submit their work on time. To overcome this, I approach those Contact Persons personally and constantly remind them to meet their deadlines. Although I have to work harder for this, I believe that this initiative would help to bond closer with the Contact Persons and make it easier for me to work with the Contact Persons. Of course, this didn't solve the deadline issue, but at least all the Contact Persons submit their work in the end, which is still a good thing.

Well I am like a panda, I love my sleep so this is my biggest worry. Being in the IPSF Team, you most likely will work cross-country. Often times it could be cross-region as well. To make up for the meeting times and schedules that fit everyone, sometimes, we need to attend meetings in weird hours like 2AM or 3AM. Coffee (with a shot of chocolate) is my best friend haha!

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TERNATIONAL Any encouragement words to MyPSA members who interested to be in IPSF team in future?

Many say that they can’t do it because they are busy. Let me say this to you. I am having my RWG mandate in the middle of a PRP training, which is thought to be one of most busiest moments in the life of a pharmacists. I am in the middle of the busiest moments of my life and i still took the step to involve, aiming to achieve what i want. So, why can't you?

Many say that they do not have the necessary skills especially to compete among international students. How do you know, you are not skilled? You won’t know if you havent tried right? So, try. If you have tried before, and you failed. Dont be disheartened, there is probably a slightly better person than you who applied as well. Dont feel down and try again.

Society like MyPSA and IPSF are places to grow yourself. Sometimes, things that you discover in these organizations cannot be found in your studies or even your working life. So, join us now.

To all MyPSA members, if you're interested to be in the IPSF team in the future, just go for it! Trust me: it would be a great experience as you get to work at an international level and would get the opportunity to explore the cultures of other countries. This will definitely develop you in various aspects, especially in terms of your confidence and communication skills. Do take note that you have nothing to lose. In fact, each experience would be a gain for you. Most importantly, you must always believe in yourself, believe that you're capable of achieving things.

With that, I wish you all the best in everything!

I think MyPSA has a really large pool of hidden gems… We Malaysians can be a tad bit shy.

Depending on your focus and what kind of skills you want to develop, you can apply to different positions in MyPSA or IPSF Team.

Dreams will remain dreams until you take action. Don’t hesitate, give your best shot and continue to do your very best!

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MyPSA November 2018 Issue

PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN

PUBLIC HEAL PHC HIV and AIDS Awareness

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he main concept of this program is to increase public awareness on HIV and AIDS mainly Awareness on Prevention and Treatment of the disease. Participation in public awareness on HIV and AIDS can empower the young people to make responsible decisions about their sexual health so that they can be vigilant about HIV infection.

Many young people have minimal knowledge on the differences between HIV and AIDS, thus KPJPSG has willingly decided to give input and educate the young people on what actually HIV and AIDS is.

The activities held on 7th June 2018, Thursday, involved the school students and teachers. A total of 250 students and 10 teachers participated in this event accompanied by 2 lecturers as chaperon for the students taking part in the event. The activities conducted were talk about HIV & AIDS Awareness by KPJUC lecturers, in which presentation material was given to us by MAC with the necessary and up to date information.

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LTH CAMPAIGN An interactive presentation was done by the students and lectures to engage the school students, which include question and answer session, short games and many more. After a short break, presentation on antimicrobial resistance was presented by another KPJUC lecturer, titled ‘SUPERBUGS’, which enlightened the students regarding the improper use of microbial resistant drugs as well as prevention in the abuse of this medications.

Next was the distribution of pamphlets by MAC staff to the school students and teachers and the information present in the pamphlets were vital for the games which was planned on theme of HIV and AIDS Awareness and Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness. Finally on the last session, which was the games session it gave a sense of practical learning to the students, which used the students physical and mental ability learned from the talks given to solve the challenges that we had created to be solved. Besides, the games were all planned in a “vs” plan which encouraged friendly competition among students.

The school students and teachers gained valuable input regarding the theme of HIV and AIDS and were able to differentiate between HIV and AIDS. The students were also been enlightened on the ways of preventing from HIV and AIDS, the dangers of misuse of antibiotics and the current scenario of antibiotic overprescribing. Besides they were also enlighten and taught the use of antibiotics used in combination to avoid excessive use of a single antibiotic. By practical evaluation through games session, the students were able to solve the problem and questions put forward in the games. As a conclusion, the main highlight to increase awareness on HIV and Aids and Antimicrobial Resistance to the school students and teachers of KPJUC was achieved.

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PUBLIC HEAL PHC Health Carnival 2018

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KM’s Health Carnival 2018 was organized by Persatuan Mahasiswa Fakulti Farmasi (PMFFar) in collaboration with Malaysian Pharmacy Student’s Association (MyPSA), Industry and Community Partnership UKM (HEJIM UKM) while Chemical Company of Malaysia (CCM), and Khee San Berhad are the sponsors of this event. Aside from Faculty of Pharmacy, there were other faculties that were involved in this program which are Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Science and Technology and Faculty of Science Health.

UKM’s Health Carnival 2018 targeted the residents of PPR Pinggiran Bukit Jalil who came from all age categories: elderly, adult and children. This health carnival was also beneficial to students of UKM as this provided problem based learning (PBL) experience as an exposure to a real-life situation.

The purpose of Health Carnival UKM 2018 was to develop skills such as effective communication, leadership, creative, critical thinking, problem solving, ethics and professionalism, responsible towards environment as well as social and accountability among UKM students.

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These events were focusing on providing health and dental check-up, medicine counselling and health exhibition. The health and dental check-up was done by the health professional, the organization members accompanied the public from the registration table to the end of health check-up. This can bring the sense of responsibility towards social and accountability among UKM students by ensuring the public get the best health services during the day.

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LTH CAMPAIGN Medicine counselling was done by 15 registered pharmacists, mostly from UKM pharmacy lecturers. On the day of event, UKM pharmacy students were able to see how the professionals performed their duties as pharmacist through effective communication, ethics and professionalism during patients counselling.

Health exhibition was done by 34 volunteers representing UKM pharmacy students, and the topics that were chosen for the day of events are Antibiotic Resistance, Pharmacist Role, General Use of Medicine, Asthma, Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity and Counterfeit Medicine. The main focus was antibiotic resistance. Health exhibition helps students develop skills such as effective communication leaderships, creative, critical thinking and problem thinking when deliver information to the public.

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As conclusion, most of the publics were able to understand most of the exhibition held during the carnival especially Antimicrobial Resistance. Based on the feedback, it can be said that the publics from PPR Pinggiran Bukit Jalil were now aware about resistance towards antibiotics and its importance to finish the antibiotic prescribed to them regardless about the taste or smell of the medicine.

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PUBLIC HEAL PHC Vaccination Awareness

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ublic health campaign is an educational and interactive event designed for an outreach to provide basic information on health and medicine and basic medical screening to the community. It is also a campaign which attempts to promote public health by making new health interventions.

This campaign was organized by Pharmacy Students’ Society in collaboration with Malaysian Pharmacy Students’ Association, Malaysia Pharmaceutical Society, Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri, Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun dan Unit Pendidikan Kesihatan Negeri.

This event also provided exposure to our students on new health related issues. There were exhibitions, public quiz, games, coloring contest, lucky draw and health talks. With a target audience of 500 people, we managed to approach school students, UniKL RCMP students and public to spread the awareness of vaccination and its importance.

This public health campaign was in collaboration with Malaysian Pharmacy Students’ Association (MyPSA), Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (MPS) Perak branch, Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri, Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun dan Unit Pendidikan Kesihatan Negeri Perak. Apart from that there were student’s club involved which were Nursing Student Society (NSS), Physiotheraphy Student Society (PHYSS), Medical Imaging (Radiography) Student Society and Pharmtech Student Society (PTSS) which made this event possible.

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LTH CAMPAIGN The list of VIPS and speakers who attended this event were Ms. Harpreet Kaur, Honorary Secretary Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society and Treasurer of Malaysia Pharmaceutical Society, Perak branch, invited speakers which were Dr. Adliah binti Mohamed Soid Pegawai Kesihatan Keluarga, Unit Pembangunan Kesihatan Keluarga, JKN entitled ‘Suntikan Vaksin Antara Mitos & Realiti Menurut Teori Sains & Islam’ and Dr. Hajah Thaherah Nor bt Mohd Kassim, Ketua Unit Pembangunan Kesihatan Keluarga, entitled ‘Roles of Healthcare Professionals Services in Hospital setting’. Dr. Adliah explained to the public on how vaccines prevent diseases, vaccines and child’s immune system, side effects/risks, and ensuring vaccine safety. Dr. Adliah also answered a few questions from the public on some issues related with vaccines such as typhoid vaccines and legalization on community pharmacist to be given vaccination to patients.

From the faculty, Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fuad bin Shamsuddin, Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Assoc. Prof Dr Zaswiza binti Mohd Noor, Head of Pharmacy Programme, Puan Siti Normiyah binti Hussin and Puan Norshidah binti Harun as club advisors and lectures of FPHS attended the event. The exhibitions from society clubs went really well as public can acknowledge different healthcare providers and its roles.

Other than that, public visited MESRA booth to know more about UniKL and RCMP, specifically on courses that are provided.

School students and children who participated coloring contest entitled “Don’t wait. Let’s Vaccinate!” were cheerful and bubbly. This event would not be such a success without the sponsorship by Casuarina @ Meru Hotel, Propharm Sdn. Bhd, Ipoh Print and Farmasi Rin. Lucky draw of 2 days and 1 night stay in hotel really added some spices to the event as public were really eager to win a chance. In general, this event really increased the awareness of the community on vaccination as well as uplifted the branding of University of Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) to the eyes of the public, agencies, sponsorship companies and collaborators.

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