ISSUE 58
INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL STUDENTS’ FEDERATION
19th AUGUST 2008
Student Exchange Programme Newsletter - Special Edition
Dear IPSFers, The SEP year of 2007-08 has been filled up with many changes in IPSF Student Exchange Programme. This year, Student Exchange Committee consisted of nine very active members who helped me to promote SEP as well as raise the quality of our project all over the world. Big thank you to all local and national Student Exchange Officers, as well as to wonderful SEC team and nearly 600 students, who took the opportunity and experienced SEP this year. Let me wish you succesfull studies and future life! With best wishes, Veronika Sumpichova IPSF Chairperson of Student Exchange 2007-08 veronika.sumpichova@gmail.com
Mobility is an important aspect of the pharmacy curricula as it prepares pharmacy students to work as health professionals in the dynamic global healthcare environment. Through the Student Exchange Programme, IPSF works to increase opportunities for improvement in pharmacy education by facilitating students to undertake international professional experiences in these particular fields:
Community pharmacy
Hospital pharmacy
Academic pharmaceutical research
Administrative pharmacy
Industrial fields of pharmacy
The aim of SEP is to promote understanding and cooperation amongst pharmacy students and all health care professionals. The exchange programme offers the unique educational and cultural experience in addition to the regular pharmaceutical knowledge. It also helps to broaden the students' understanding of pharmaceutical and social conditions in different countries. This year, we have welcomed 14 new associations in IPSF SEP: BPSA Bangladesh, CEPS Congo, Dem. Rep., FLHI Iceland, BEMFSDU, Indonesia, GMU Indonesia, HMD-FU Indonesia, ISMAFARSI Indonesia, JPSA Jordan, NUPSA Kenya, COMPSA Malawi, PUSPA Nepal, SAPSF South Africa, KNAPS South Korea, Dem. Rep., ZPSA Zimbabwe. During year 2007-08 exchanges in all areas increased as you may see on the Figure 1. In comparesment with year 2006-2007, community pharmacy exchanges number lowered from 71% to 65%. Hospital pharmacy field faced same interest as last year, however research field is these days very interesting for pharmacy students, from last year`s 6% we can see increase to 16%. Industrial pharmacy sector did not attract more interest of students we have only one percent more interested participants IPSF Secretariat PO Box 84200, 2508 AE Den Haag, The Netherlands www.ipsf.org Interested in sending an article to IPSF Newsletter? Please send your article and photos to publications@ipsf.org If you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us at publications@ipsf.org or ipsf@ipsf.org
than last year. Another graph (Figure 2) shows us number of applications in every region. Europeans still lead in interest of being exchanged, however after Europe, we can see North African students as well as North American students going
Figure 1. Diversity of Student Exchange Programme areas of training for SEP year 2007-08. Date: 8th July,2008 [www.ipsf-sep.org]
“IPSF is the leading international advocacy organisation for pharmacy students with the aim to promote improved public health through provision of information, education, networking as well as a range of publications and professional initiatives. Founded in London in 1949, IPSF represents 350000 pharmacy students and recent graduates from 75 countries worldwide today."
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