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Since its birth in Singapore in 2001, the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation Asia Pacific Regional Office (IPSF APRO) has endeavoured to represent pharmacy students across the Asia Pacific in over 10 countries. Our purpose is to support and advance the aims and objectives of the Federation at the regional level.

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IntroductionAPRO Regional Working Group 2014-2015

Thanakrit(Mark) Sermpongs -Thailand 5th year student at IBurapha University, Chonburi

Hi everyone, My name is Thanakrit Sermpongs, the Chairperson of 14th APPS Thailand. You can call me “Mark !” This is my first time working for the APRO Regional Working Group and I’m really excited! My first event was APPS Japan 2013 and I also attended IPSF World congress 2014 in Porto, Portugal. It was such a great opportunity for me to learn about many amazing cultures from around the world and I think it was a wonderful experience that has inspired me to make APPS2015 Thailand happen.If you like Sea, Sand and Sun, APPS2015 is the RIGHT place for you. APPS will be held at Pattaya Thailand!!! Pattaya is a very popular tourist destination which contains many attractions, especially the BEACH. This year, we will have the best symposium ever!!: Thai Night, Thai entertainment, Interesting workshops, Symposium, Field trips and the “Long beach garden hotel”, your home sweet home during the entire APPS! Viva la Pharmacie !

Chairperson of 14th APPS Thailand

Waranyu(Kimmy) Lengwiriyakul - Thailand5th year student at Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen

Greeting from the land of the smile! :) I’m Kimmy from Thailand. My first experience of IPSF started as being an official delegate at APPS 2013 in Japan. It was a wonderful event meeting new friends around Asia-Pacific, and also learning and sharing with them. From the recent IPSF journey at LIT and APPS 2014 in Malaysia, I was partnered with many outstand-ing people who have inspired me and I loved being surrounded by fellow IPSFers. That was the reason that encouraged me to apply for this position. As a Regional Project Officer, I would like to promote IPSF projects and raise the aware-ness of pharmacy health care services to all APRO members. I’m really excited for this fantastic term. Hope to see you all at APPS 2015 in Thailand. Don’t wait, come and join us and feel the IPSF spirit! ‘Opportunities often knock at our door, those we have to choose to accept or ignore ..’ Regional Projects

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Meng San(Dora) Lee - TaiwanPharmacy graduate from Taipei Medical University, Taipei

My name is Meng San Lee, people know me as Dora. Born in August 6th, 1990, I have had my birthday in IPSF world congress 4 years straight!!! I was RC + LIT coordinator in 2012 APPS Taiwan, APRO RPO from 2012-13, Chairperson 2013 – 14 and now the Immediate Past Chairperson plus IPSF Advisory board member 2014 – 15. My first APPS and IPSF WC was in 2011, and I have never missed one since then (actually that was my first flight experience in my life). What followed was a crazy record: 24 business trips in 4 years, 14 of which were in 2014. I couldn’t have imagined it was IPSF that would broaden my horizons, not to mention that it was IPSF that depleted my bank account… But, it’s ALL WORTH IT.My best memory in IPSF were the days and nights we, the 15 executives, discussed the IPSF constitution in our headquarter in the Netherlands; my worst memory were the day I fell asleep during the meeting at 3am in Porto (because I don’t remember anything in that 20mins), the most embarrassing moment was the day Sheena and other executives tried explaining what “making out” means in European style, French style and American style, since I am only familiar with the Asian style. As for the most touching moments? COUNTLESS. “It’s not the hours you worked that counts, it’s the work you put in hours.” IPSF is a truly amazing organization. I had to work my head off for this family and I have seen its power. Together, we mean a lot to this world. I miss you all. See you around soon.

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Brian Wong - New Zealand3rd year student at University of Otago, Dunedin

Regional Media and Publications Officers (RMPO)

Kia ora, I am Brian from Dunedin, the university city in the South Island of New Zealand. I am honoured to be your RMPO this term. APPS2014 Malaysia is my first IPSF event although I was in IPSF Design and Creativity subcommit-tee last term. APPS is very inspirational and it is an once-in-a life time event that you have to attend as a pharmacy student. I am amazed by how well organ-ised and structured APPS2014 Malaysia was and it was part of my motivation to become an APRO RWG, to be able to be part of next APPS and also have a chance to meet and work with people around this awesome region. I hope I can use my experience, skills and creative ideas to enrich APRO in my term. Feel free to give me ideas, suggestions, I would love to hear them! Viva la Pharmacie!

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Sjors Plugge - Australia Recent pharmacy graduate from Monash University, Melbourne

G’day IPSFers, Sjors here, your APRO Regional Relations Officer (RRO) for 2014 – 2015. I’m a Dutch Aussie, a.k.a. born in the Netherlands but raised in Australia, and just finished my Bachelor at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. I first heard of IPSF from my student association and decided to vol-unteer as the local exchange coordinator. My first IPSF event was APPS 2014 in Malaysia and I had such an amazing time and made so many new friends that IPSF is just my life now. It is such an amazing and wonderful thing when you get to meet people from all different kind of cultures and get to interact with them through your common interest; pharmacy. You don’t want to know how excited I am for APPS 2015 in Thailand and I hope that I get to see many old and new faces there. Viva la Pharmacie!

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Mian Cheng - Australia Pharmacy graduate from the University of Sydney, Sydney

Hello IPSFers from Sydney, Australia! Starting pharmacy 5 years ago, little did I know that it would come this far. By day I’m a pharmacist, by night I work for IPSF, pharmacy is my life and I love every minute of it. Since attending my first IPSF event, APPS Taiwan, I’ve never looked back. IPSF brings young pharmacists together from around the globe, providing the chance to learn and experience something new together. We form wonderful friendships, cooperate and begin to understand each others cultures, backgrounds and way of life. It broadens your horizons and shows you what pharmacists are like around the world and what we can do on the global stage. With IPSF travel the globe for the sake of pharmacy and health, go broke in the process, but the experiences are worth their weight in gold. IPSF has offered me so much and as Chairperson I want to share this all with you, take the leap and experience it for yourself! Our team is hard at work to give you all opportunities! Come to the next APPS in Thailand! Viva la Pharmacie! Chairperson

Janet Mirzaei - Australia3rd year student at University of Sydney, Sydney

Secretary

To all my dear IPSFers, my name is Janet Mirzaei and I’m the secretary for APRO in 2014-2015. I first heard of IPSF earlier this year when my university was pro-moting the 13th IPSF APPS in Malaysia. Despite not knowing much about IPSF, I de-cided to take the chance and attend the symposium in August. I can safely say that it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. During the week, I met so many wonderful people from many different countries and formed close friendships with a lot of them. It was lovely to see everyone participating enthusiastically and getting involved in the activities that were planned out by the fantastic reception committee. Originally attending as the official delegate for Australia, I decided that I wanted to become more involved with IPSF in improving health education and promoting our profession, which drove me to take up a position in the Regional Office. I’m really looking forward to working for APRO in the upcoming year and I hope to see you all in Thailand for the next APPS in 2015!

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IPSF Run 2014World Diabetes Day has been one of the main focuses of the IPSF public health campaign agenda through the year, although the number of cases in Indonesia is still relatively small com-pared to infectious disease cases, the growing number of people has diag-nosed with diabetes has raised our concern. The shocking fact about the age of people being diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes are getting younger encourage us to find a way to raise awareness about diabetes towards gen Y, with the spirit of “Saving the future of our generation”.

Running has become a rapidly-grow-ing healthy lifestyle trend in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta. There comes the idea of combining diabetes awareness campaign and running titled “Sweat over Sweet”. This shows a figurative meaning of doing more exercise be-

cause a healthy lifestyle to fighting over-consumption of carbohydrates— eg. Rice, the traditional maincourse in Indo-nesia.

We partnered with WHO Indonesia, the Ministry of Health, the Indonesian Di-abetes Care-giver Association, Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Roche, Taisho, Vorla, 910 Shoes, ByeByeBig, and other healthcare initiatives to make the campaign happen. Apart from running, we also organised series of public lecture to educate people about diabetes; through an awareness

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campaign, free blood glucose tests, a support pledge called “Care for Diabe-tes” where people can put their support

messages to fight diabetes, and we also organised a selfie competition with #JakGoBlue hashtag to capture the wonderful moments of this mean-ingful event.

To our surprise, hundreds of people were running along with us and thou-sands were gathering around our stage to have a peek of the public lecture and have their blood glucose level

tested. Agus Tjahjoadi one of the selfie competition winner said “A lot of my rela-tives got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and they are quite certainly much young-er than me. I am really happy to know the fact that youth these days are running a campaign for a good cause like this to send a message to people their age and older generation to live healthier. They need to do this kind of thing more often”.

The committee hopes that this campaign can be a regu-lar event and that it does not stop here, because there is still a long way to go to fight diabetes.

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APRO Focus Project 2014-2015 - Patients Counseling Event (PCE), - Clinical Skills Event (CES) - Good Pharmacy Practice Education (GPPed)APRO focus projects for this term are the Patients Counseling Event (PCE), Clinical Skills Event (CES) and Good Pharmacy Practice Education (GPPed). Our aims are to encourage the imple-mentation and continuation of both PCE and CSE, and in addition to in-troduce the GPPed program to APRO members. All events provide an op-portunity for members to develop their professional and communication skills, allowing them to transition smoothly into the pharmacy profession.

Each year APRO, together with IPSF holds PCE and CSE competitions at Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium (APPS). CSE was created to encourage pharmacy students to develop their clinical problem-solving in order to im-prove their patient’s treatment therapy. PCE was designed to give members a chance to take part in a mock interac-tion with a patient, in which effective communication and information gath-ering skills are tested and fine-tuned.

In addition, IPSF APRO also provides the GPPed program for all members. Developed in collaboration between WHO and FIP, GPPed encompasses the concept of ‘Good Pharmacy Practise’, allowing participants to learn the skills required for optimal patient care in a

pharmacy setting. APRO aspires to cre-ate a team of leaders who will apply the skills gained from GPPed in all settings; with the ultimate goal of integrating it into pharmacy university curriculum.

This year APRO Regional Working Group (RWG) will be focusing on increasing member perception and the importance of Pharmacy Education and Professional Development. To accompany this, our latest APRO PCE and CSE champion has shared her advice and tricks of the trade, alongside as well as experiences shared from GPPed winners.

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]. I will provide guidance and ideas to implement these events. I can also assist in creating scenarios for PCE and CSE as well as any additional workshops and competitions. You can further read in advance about PCE and CSE at IPSF website: http://ipsf.org/pce and http://ipsf.org/cse. All members are invited to participate in GPPed and can also con-tact me for further information.

‘Students Today, Pharmacists Tomorrow’

Waranyu (Kimmy) LengwiriyakulIPSF APRO Regional Project Officer (2014-2015)

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How to improve your communication skills in patient counselling and clincial skills events? Advices from Miss. Raveena Chadha, the winner of APPS2014 PCE and CSE events“I walked down the steps that seemed to tumble forward faster than a mov-ing train. One misplaced foot on the step in front of me brought on a tem-porarily sway and a moments panic. “Breathe, no matter, I’m just nervous”, I reasoned with myself as I set foot on stage. I could feel their eyes staring intently upon me; 300 pairs just trans-fixed, waiting for scene to unfold. And then I saw ‘her’. She walked towards me slowly and uttered “hello, I’ve got a prescription”.

My reflexes kicked in; within seconds I had become immune to the crowd and I walked over to my patient and started provide what all pharmacy kids are obligated to do- excellent patient care”.

My name is Raveena and I’m the most recent winner for both the PCE and CSE event of IPSF APPS. Having flown 9 hours to Kuala Lumpur, I would have never dreamed of entering these com-petitions as I spent majority of my flight catching up on the university work that I was missing.

I’m going to take a moment to reach out and provide my fellow students with some advice.

1. Love your profession and the patient interaction component. I like to imagine my patient as a very close family friend who I cherish; and it definitely changes the way I interact with them. Be kind, compassionate and most of all patient! Patient’s don’t have the same health literacy or understand the goings of pharmacy like we do. Be patient, and they will be grateful.

2. If the patient does not under-stand your explanation; avoid repeating it in a higher tone. It won’t change the fact that they still won’t understand. Instead, try explain-ing things in a different way; with dif-ferent layman terms or using analogies. Remember: If one way doesn’t work, make another. “I really like your counsel-

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ling. My English not strong, but I un-derstood everything you say.”

3. Work on your drug knowledge. Do not waste the years of university you are paying for. But understand that you ARE allowed to consult your resources and that you don’t have to have everything memorised. If you are unsure of something, tell the patient you will consult your resources and come back with a definite answer. In this profession, uncertainty can lead to patient harm, so never play that gamble. Strive to become like the wine expert who can tell you about what is different in 100 different wines and where they come from – just in a phar-macy version.

4. Don’t be stiff. This is my key strength; when I see a patient Iopt for a more laidback ap-proach, doing my best to make the patient laugh. Patients feel more com-fortable with people who are friend-ly, open and engaging. Try to make the most of each interaction; find out more about the patient; “So what are your plans for the rest of today?” and watch them tell you a piece of infor-mation about them. Connect with the over sports, clothes, activities etc.

“Communication is the MOST important factor of being a pharmacist. If this is a weak point – I

suggest you start practis-ing with your friends or lecturers or watching vid-eos to get a better idea of how you can improve. “

5. Learn about how to diffuse pa-tient anger. I’ve read countless books, talked to friends and figured out how to diffuse patients.

Remember each person has a different style of counselling that makes them uniquely them. Do not try to copy oth-er people, but aim to learn from them, add your spin on things to make it your own characteristics.

For additional drug information, google ‘Drug x CMI/Consumer medicines Infor-mation’ – provides a step by step coun-selling guide for the particular medica-tion, as per the drug manufacturer.

If anyone has any questions or would like some more information from me re-garding my experience or tips for coun-selling, feel free to email me at [email protected]

Raveena

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Good Pharmacy Practice Education Program (GPPed) 2014 - Taipei, Taiwan

Can you tell us more in detail, what GPPed is about?

Carissa: It is about learning how to conduct “Good Pharmacy Practice” according to the GPP guidelines made by WHO working with FIP. The GPP training program originally, held by FAPA, was only for working phar-macists. This year is the first to invite not only working pharmacists, but also pharmacy students to join this training program through IPSF APRO known as GPPed.

Ardy: The GPPed Program is aimed to create a set of student leaders that will initiate, plan and implement Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) in the context of pharmacy education. This program conveys a message that even as students we can be catalysts for uplifting and promoting the phar-macy profession.

Charisma: During the program, we did a bit of brainstorming and dis-cussed the health problems related to GPP in each country. It has made us understand the problems that hap-

The Good Pharmacy Practice Education Program was held in Taipei, Taiwan this year. From the program, we conducted an interview with 3 of the best participants: Ardy, a handsome guy from the Philippines, as well as two pretty girls, Carissa and Carisma from Indonesia. They are more than happy to share their great experiences with all of you.

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pen around us in relation to education systems, health regulations and clinical pharmacy practice. Besides, we could learn a little clinical practice from the hospital settings in Taiwan. As phar-macy students, it’s important to un-derstand and prepare ourselves to be ready as future pharmacists.

What inspired you to join the event?

Ardy: Pharmacists are generally per-ceived only as “medicine sellers”, not as medicine experts. I thought that by joining the program, I would be more capacitated and competent to advo-cate for changing the undervalued perspective of the public towards the pharmacy profession.

Charisma: I thought that this event would be great especially because there is so much content involved. I decided to join this event to get more knowledge about good clinical phar-macy practice which I can’t get from my lectures in class. Besides, I want to know how far other countries in the Asia-Pacific region implement GPP.

Carissa: Inspiration to join the event comes from the event itself, by stimu-lating students to be more proactive about the pharmacy profession; do everything we can using the resourc-es that we have. I personally think that, that is something I can never get in any other event.

“You will never regret joining this event. Get ready for be-coming a good future phar-macist and brace yourself!” - Putri Charisma, (HMF AP ITB, Indonesia)

Could you please share your insight about the workshops and activities during the program?

Charisma: Firstly, we shared our in-sight on the health status of our own country based on the four major roles of pharmacists stated in the “Joint FIP/WHO Guidelines on Good Phar-macy Practice: Standards for Quality of Pharmacy Service” document. Each

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delegate presented their countries’ condition and then other delegates would ask for further explanations. That section was important for the general outline on what we were looking for five days forward.

Ardy: After sharing and discussing sections, pertinent deliberations about Taiwan’s National Health Insur-ance (NHI) system, the program was followed by a series of substantial lectures about GPP from reputable and well-experienced pharmacists. Then we had many workshops and presentations regarding specific areas in the practice of hospital pharma-cy such as ambulatory patient care, inpatient care, cytotoxic and non-cy-totoxic aseptic preparations, clinical pharmacy services, patient education and more.

Carissa: After every workshop, we divided into several groups according to our nationality so that we could discuss the topics presented to us. We also had a student discussion almost every night following the events.

Moreover, we got a chance to visit the Taiwan National Health Insurance to learn about the system, and visited Taipei Veteran General Hospital to gain first-hand experience on GPP implementation in real settings of clinical pharmacy services.

“If you are passionate about Good Pharmacy Practice and uplifting the pharmacy pro-fession, then this program is what you are looking for” - Mac Ardy Gloria, recent phar-macy graduate (Philippines)

In your opinion, why GPP/GPPed is worth attending?

Ardy: GPP/GPPed provides us with distinct guidelines on how a pharma-cist should work and practice; not to mention that it specifically enumer-ates what is to be expected from a pharmacist. Moreover, it gives a clear picture of how theory and classroom lessons should be translated and puts it into good practice once we step out of the classroom and interact with patients. By promoting GPP through pharmacy education, students will realize and imbibe in themselves how significant a pharmacist is and will be more inspired and motivated to cre-ate ripples of positive change for the pharmacy profession.

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Charisma: GPP is important to be understood by all pharmacists to provide good service to patients in order to receive optimal care in ev-ery public healthcare service. GPPed is also important for all pharmacy students because they have to be well prepared to be pharmacists who understand their role in provid-ing good clinical practice skills in a community setting.

Carissa: GPPed is important be-cause the work of pharmacists has expanded and is not only product oriented but also patient oriented, therefore, our education system has to support that. Also the role of pharmacy students needs to be shifted to become more critical and proactive to catalyst the changes in the education system in their re-spective countries.

“If you want to be the agent of change, then this is the place to start :)” - Carissa Pu-rabaya (BEM KEMAFAR UN-PAD, Indonesia)

What is your most memorable mo-ment during the program?

Ardy: The most memorable moment for me was the visit to Taipei Veter-an General Hospital. This is because it helped me better comprehend

and experience first-hand: Good Phar-macy Practice. Through this visit, I also gained insight, perspectives and aspirations from more experienced pharmacists.

Charisma: My most memorable mo-ment is the discussion time held in each lecture. I could learn more about the pharmacy settings in other coun-tries. I could learn every good and bad thing as my orientation to solve pharmacy problems in my country and to prepare myself as a future pharmacist. Their perspectives in GPP implementation during discussion time has always impressed me. There were many things I learnt from those great people.

Carissa: The best moment for me is when I met other participants who were both pharmacy students and also working pharmacists. I never got the chance to experience that kind of situation where as a student, I was listened to and given great advice about implementing GPPed. Also,

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other pharmacy students are very driven which is really motivating.

Could you briefly share about your GPPed plan?

Ardy: A Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) Dissemination Campaign among students within various pharmacy universities has been planned and will be implemented starting in 2015. This campaign aims 1. To broaden the awareness of pharmacy students with current issues in the pharmacy profession within the Philippines, 2. To inform them about GPP and its status in the country and 3. To motivate them to contribute towards the uplifting of the phar-macy profession.

Carissa: I teamed up with PIMFI’s coordinator from the Indonesian Pharmacy Students Association (IS-MAFARSI) and they have agreed to put GPPed related material at their

national pharmacy congress known as PIMFI, which will be held in July/August this year. Hopefully with this, more students will know and be ea-ger to learn more about GPP.

Charisma: I have spread my knowl-edge to other pharmacy students about GPPed Taiwan and explained what GPP is, to makes them realize how important it is. I also wrote an article about GPP in the HMF ‘Ars Praeparandi’ ITB website and plan to write more. I also plan to take part in the GPPed content of the PIMFI 2015 event.

Finally, please give 3 words to de-scribe GPPed :)

Ardy: Enriching. Inspiring. Empowering.

Charisma: Precious. Inspiring. Enlightening.

Carissa: Knowledgeable. Effort. Worthwhile.

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