epsa activities review tiia metiäinen |epsa president annual reception 11th february 2014

EPSA Activities review

Tiia Metiäinen |EPSA PresidentAnnual Reception

11th February 2014

EPSA in brief• The European Pharmaceutical Students' Association• Became an independent organisation in 1982 (current name from 1992)• Representing over 160 000 pharmacy students and recent graduates from more than 30 European countries

• Aim to ”develop the interests and opinions of European pharmacy students and to encourage contact and co-operation between them"

PR

EDUCATION EXTERNAL AFF.

MOBILITY

EPSA Team

Development of EPSA- Key points

• Advocacy at the heart of the association

• Purposeful collaboration with student and professional associations, increased involvement

• Reshaping internal structures and regulations to match EPSA’s needs

Admin and neutral bodies

• New members- Ireland, Cyprus, Bosnia and

Herzegovina- 36 countries altogether

• Statutes reform and internal restructuring

EduBoard (1/2)• EPSA Student Advocacy Platform

• Antimicrobial resistance + 3 other topics

• 5 public health campaigns this mandate• Campaign Kit out

• Pharmaceutical sciences increasing visibility

• New: EPSA Students’ Science Publication

- reviewed by EUFEPS

EduBoard (2/2)• Sustainability in soft skills Training Project

• 57 EPSA trainers• Collaboration with ESTIEM, EESTEC, EFPSA, IFMSA

• Career section on website to be launched in March• Methodology survey to support better pharmacy education – we need your input!

Public Relations• Information letter restructuring

- keeping members and alumni up to date

• Enforcing strong presence on social media:

• Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, Blog...

• Sustainable event coordination

• Reconnecting with Alumni

Mobility• 45 Individual Mobility placements until now

• Interest in TWINNET exchange programs skyrocketing!

- Spain, Serbia, Austria, Croatia, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Ireland currently interested or planning

External Affairs (1/2)

• Fundraising Sub-Committee -> better quality for members with less money

e.g. Over 100 contacts for upcoming AC

• Grant support

External Affairs (2/2)

• Collaboration with other student and professional organisations to increase outreach and possibilities in educational activities

- e.g. webinars with GSK and ESOP• Student programs at professional events:

• EAHP, DIA, TOPRA, EAFP, EUFEPS?• Involvement in professional initiatives and platforms:

• PHAR-IN, PHAR-HOSP, PHAR-QA• IMI Lifetrain• EPHA

• Internships in Brussels and Basel

EPSA EVENTS CALENDAR= OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXTRA-CURRICULAR EDUCATION,

NETWORKING AND FUN

• ANNUAL CONGRESS

• SUMMER UNIVERSITY

• AUTUMN ASSEMBLY

• ANNUAL RECEPTION

Thank you!www.epsa-online.org

Students’ perspective to Mobile Health

Jorge Batista | EPSA Vice President of Education

Mobile Health

• Support for Health outcomes, services and research through mobile devices (mobile phones, tablets).

• Usage of mobile devices when providing medicines information, collecting health data and delivering healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients.

Introduction

• Potential to reduce the healthcare costs. • Improvement of healthcare outcomes. • Empowerment of patient to take greater

control in their own health.• Factors to take into account: Quality and

safety of apps, privacy concerns – patient confidentiality data, Regulation?

Students’ Perspective

• Benefits to patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare students

• Patients - access medical information in real time increase therapy compliance

• Accuracy of information in apps, user-friendliness.

• Quality information, training and follow up with users.

Patients

• Privacy issues – patient data confidentiality

• Harmonization of opinions between healthcare professionals and inter-professional collaboration – further development of mobile health strategy

Healthcare Professionals

• Mobile health should evolve towards a personalised healthcare approach (e.g. chronic patients monitoring, patients with hindered access to (specialised) care)

• Relation between patients and healthcare professionals – risk of becoming impersonal and decrease efficiency?

• mHealth apps enforces patient independency and knowledge – gap/bridge between the two parties?

Students

• Helping tools throughout education process (e.g. Exams study, integrated practice in the degree, quick access to reliable medical information).

Poll on EPSA website – mapping students opinion and experiences

• 157 Responses from 23 countries

• 83% not addressed in their education• 31% of the students have used a health app before• Purposes:1. Study-oriented (Drug Compendium, Therapy Guidelines)

2. Public Health use (Calories tracker, Fitness, Self-diagnosis)

3. Technological use (Healthcare services location tracking, Health-related news, articles research)

Results (2/2)

• 9 out of 10 students wish that mobile health would be addressed more in their education

• 58% wish that mobile health would be addressed in the compulsory practice integrated in the degree.