- Everybody can be great, as anybody can serve. You do not have to have a college degree to serve. You do not have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love, you only need to be here in this place with us. -We all in EPSF-BeniSuef strongly believed in this and always seek to achieve it so in this newsletter, we tried to explain the impact we left through the events we finished in the first semester, so take a look and don’t forget to make your own impact from now.
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Intro
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Index
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IPSF
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EPSF
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Blood Donation
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PHocus
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SOTW
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SEP
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غيث
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Social event
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IPSF
International Pharmaceutical Students
•The leading international advocacy of
organization
pharmacy
promoting
students improved
public health through the provision of information, education,
networking,
and a range of publications and professional activities.
• The International Pharmaceutical Students› Federation [IPSF] was founded in 1949 by eight pharmacy student associations in London, United Kingdom.
• The Federation now represents approximately 350,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in more than 90 countries worldwide. • At the time, over eighty countries form the membership of this federation represents more than three hundred and fifty thousand [350,000] pharmacy students and recent graduates.
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•The Egyptian Pharmaceutical Students
federation
[EPSF] is one of the oldest national
students›
volunteer
organizations; it is Egyptians largest
EPSF
Egyptian Pharmaceutical Students Federation
• It is the leading national advocacy organization of pharmacy students promoting improved public health through the provision of information, education, networking and a range of publications and professional development.
• E PSF is an independent organization that works under the supervision of the Egyptian Pharmacists’ Syndicate and the Egyptian Pharmaceutical association [the national FIP] and administered by students.
professional
Governmental,
Non-
non-political,
and non-profitable organization for
pharmacy
students.
• E PSF was found in 1982 as the national representative of all pharmacy students in Egypt to be the head of all Local Scientific Associations in all the Egyptian pharmacy schools. The national Federation now represents more than 85,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in 37 Universities of pharmacy all around Egypt.
• E PSF is the only full member [FM] Federation representing Egypt in the International Pharmaceutical Students federation [IPSF] in the Netherlands.
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• By one blood bag, you can save up to three lives, so EPSF-BeniSuef holds the Blood Donation Campaign every year for almost 11 years; to raise awareness and correct misconceptions about blood donation. • Currently, the percentage of blood donors in Egypt is only about %1 of the total population and we need it to be %3 to achieve self-sufficiency of blood bags by 2030. • In addition to the value of this great humanitarian work, you can also benefit from blood donation as it helps in: 1 1. Lowering the risk of suffering from heart attack. 2 2. Reducing cancer risk. 3 3. Getting rid of extra iron; as its increase causes toxicity. • This campaign covers many different regions as it consists of several phases and the first phase was from 7th to 19th of December 2020: 1 1. On the 7th of December, we made a workshop in BeniSuef Pharmacists’ Syndicate to facilitate the topic and to be ready to aware the public. 2 2. On the 8th and 9th of December (University region days), we aware a large number of university students about the benefits of blood donation and the national duty towards it. 3 3. On the 11th of December, we were in ( )بنــي عفــانvillage as these places have a high percentage of misconceptions about blood donation. 4 4. On the 15th of December ( )ميــدان الزراعييــن, it was a cooperation with EPSF-NUB to unify and intensify our efforts.
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• After that, we continued on our social media platforms till the 19th of December. • Conclusion: • We achieved our goal, more than 1,500 of the public are now aware of blood donation benefits and about anemia (its types and how to overcome it whether through food or medication) from the offline campaign and nearly 1200 from the online campaign. • More than 84 blood bags were collected, and the blood pressure was measured for more than 200 people. Anemia cases were also registered to follow up with them, which reached more than 150 cases.
•Finally, you can be a hero of someone’s life, you can resurrect him with little drops of your blood. Our society in great need of blood donation to fill this defect by 2030, so we have another phase in March.
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• The pharmacist plays a key role in helping patients and his role is not only to dispense the medicine written in prescriptions but also to ensure the safe and effective use of medication and review all medication, whether they are suitable to intake combined or not without that, the drug may be converted to a poison. • EPSF role isn’t attention to the
restricted pharmacy
to serve students,
society, it so it held
also gives more “PHocus” project.
• «PHocus» project is a cooperation between the Professional Development Committee and the Continuous Education Committee to fill a gap between our pharmaceutical knowledge and the audience by using science communication tools to develop our pharmacy careers. • The project had three phases: The first phase included: - Opening and encouraging speech from the participants of the last year. - Sessions, which was attended by nearly 45 attendees
• 1st Day: • Dr.Hoda Rabea: lecturer in clinical pharmacy department BeniSuef universitydiscussed a session about: - Clinical pharmacy history, job description, and the role of clinical pharmacist in hospital. - Common medication errors. - Vital checkups. • Dr.Hya Ahmed: a medical student at BeniSuef University, medical content creator - discussed the session of science communication.
• 2nd Day: • Dr. Rania Sarhan: -lecturer in the clinical pharmacy department, BeniSuef Universit - discussed a session about: - Respiratory system overview - COVID19- intro, treatment guidelines and possible risks after COVID19- Patient education (basic instructions nutritional plan) • Ms. Alaa Qandil -EPSF-BeniSuef Continuous Education chairperson -21/20 discussed a session about data collection and learning styles. •
• 3rd Day: • Dr.Ahmed Anwar: supervisor of clinical pharmacy training and education in -57357 discussed an online session about cases of COVID19- and the best way to deal with each case.
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• 4th Day: • Dr. Essam Mohamed: -Ph.D. in pharmaceutical and industrial pharmacy - discussed a session about the role of the pharmacist in industrial pharmacy. • Dr. Abdulrhman Nabil: -Bachelor of clinical pharmacy, BeniSuef University - discussed a session about self-learning styles
• The second phase: consisted of a simulation workshop (25 attendees) to qualify the competitors for the competition. • The third phase: was the local competition and 13 students qualified for the final competition and there were certificates for all attendees.
• PHocus project helps the students to be professional pharmacists; therefore, they can serve society. It gives them the base to develop themselves. It was a real investment in pharmacy students to create a new developed and highly qualified generation.
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so we put our first step from 12 years ago in “Step On The Way” conference, it was a step of hope and aspiration and gives us the power to challenge our limits. • This year SOTW13 -which is different from any year- was held online because of the COVID19- situation and for the safety of our students. • Its vision is: 11. Qualify pharmacy students for the life after graduation, by sharing with them obstacles that may face and the way to overcome them. 22. To satisfy their curiosity and passion for knowledge. 33. Intensify and unify the efforts to reach the learning objectives of the event. 44. The event was directed for all the different grades. • The event started on the 1st of February and ended on the 9th of February. It discussed two important career pathways, which are community pharmacy and medical rep, and the topics of these tracks were:
• Community pharmacy : 11. Patient counseling 22. OTC. 33. Malnutrition. 44. Cosmetics. 55. Antibiotics. 66. Project management. 77. Public speaking.
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• Medical rep: 11. Medical rep orientation. 22. Stress management. 33. Self-Branding. 44. Pharmaceutical marketing. 55. Selling skills. 66. Customer service.
• There were also Workshops: 11. Digital marketing. 22. Entrepreneurship. • As the event is very interesting to end the confusion of the students about their future, a panel discussion was made about careers and the skills will help you to hunt a Job. • The attendees were 94 that knew about the event from the online promotion on our social media platforms, they will have a training opportunity in pharmacies or medical company. • Finally, life is too short so don’t waste any chance to learn a new thing as it’s the only thing to make you unique from others.
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• A lot of us have always dreamed of a journey of adventures, experiencing new cultures, trying different food, making new friends, learning new languages and enjoying vacations by enriching ourselves in different ways. • And now it is time to take our golden opportunity to see the world from the SEP eyes and firstly, what is SEP? • It is a “Student Exchanging Program” It is the IPSF’s largest project offering professional pharmacy internships in around 80 hosting countries worldwide. • What are the SEP offers? • It offers a huge training in five fields, which are clinical pharmacy, community pharmacy, pharmaceutical pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, and scientific research. It offers you a real opportunity to travel, explore, and know new people. • We made a big promotion that includes two phases: 11. Online promotion: We used our social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) to reach our pharmacy students and aware them about this golden chance and the benefits they will gain from this experience.
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What are you doing for the others? -It is life›s most important question, the efforts to help poor people and give cheer to them will be the beginning of a happier life for the whole world, as we always care about society.
• We wanted to start the new year in a great way, so we have organized winter supplies that aim to meet the poor‘s needs from clothes and blankets, to protect them from the freezing winter, the winter supplies were in «Al Gharkd» village in the east of BeniSuef on the 1st of January 2021 and it included: -Awareness about COVID19 -, how to deal with when there is an infection, and the precautions to avoid. -Analysis about common diseases, which they suffer from. -Clothes fair that contained winter clothes for men, women, and children. • We have distributed 32 blankets and 100 masks to spread more awareness about the commitment to the precautionary measures. • The impulse to help each other is into our genes; it is coded within our species. We have a «soul contract» to help each other, and I am convinced that we all feel this impulse. Finally, stay tuned for our coming convoy.
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• Is the volunteering based on work only, or what? -EPSF has proved that volunteering is based on the spirit of the volunteers and their cooperation with each other, as long as it is high, they can do everything, so EPSF-BeniSuef held a social day in “El-Montazh park” • This event was made in order to: 1 1. Motivate the members during the exams. 2 2. b ond between the members of the association and expose them to the alumni; to gain mentality from the old generations. 3 3. e nhance some valuable morals and concepts that people often neglect during the time of stress. 4 4.Celebrate the new year and teach the members how to put goals for the new year.
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• The day included a dish party, each one who had attended the day brought some kind of food with him, and then we shared it all while we were talking together. And we had 40 attendees. • The event was a good example on our family concept, everyone felt that he had 2 families from now and had good consultants can ask their help in anything and in any time. • Finally, if I were asked to describe the day in one sentence, I will say it was a day full of positive energy to complete.
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• Although that difficult time, we could hold shoot for the stars camp with taking all the precautionary measures. It was the beginning of a new season for EPSF-BeniSuef with new ambitions and a new generation. It was on the 29th and 30th of January 2021. • It was an educational and social camp, which helps in establishing and developing the association; as it is a tool of bonding between the association members and raising awareness about the association systems, rules and history. • Within the two days, we had 53 attendees: 1 1. The First Day: It included a general meeting and two sessions, which are presentation skills and negotiation skills. 2 2. The Second Day: It included two sessions which are photography skills and marketing basics, and also many social activities, dish party and “BSPSA ” قعــدة, a panel discussion between the new generation and association alumni about history and mentality of EPSF-BeniSuef. • We add fun to learning, the shoot for stars camp was a great opportunity for that. We learned, laughed, made friends, made memories and everyone felt that he is in his home.
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