OPEN CALL Pharmacy Profession Advocacy Essay Competition INTRODUCTION This is the first Pharmacy Profession Advocacy competition organised and its aim is to encourage current pharmacy, pharmaceutical science students and young graduates to engage in thoughts regarding the future of the profession and what they would envision that future to look like. The general theme of the competition is ‘The Future of Pharmacy’. As this theme is quite broad, it has been broken down into 3 subtopics. Participants are to choose and build their essay from one of the 3 subtopics listed below: 1. Innovation in Pharmacy This subtopic should include any current or new exciting services, processes or sectors in pharmacy and the impact of these on the profession and healthcare. 2. Health Technology in Pharmacy This subtopic should include any current or new technologies that can be used in pharmacy (e.g. devices, apps, electronics, etc.) and their effects on pharmacy. 3. Future Role of Pharmacists This topic should include a discussion of the new, exciting roles that pharmacists can play in the near future and the impact these roles may have on pharmacy and the public.
The essay should be a maximum of 500 words. Please save the essay in PDF format with the following title: 'PPAC_Subtopic of your choice_Member Organization(or IM)_Full Name'. (e.g. PPAC_Innovation in Pharmacy_BPSA_Acacia Pik Kay Leong). Please submit the PDF file through the google form submission.
https://goo.gl/forms/dbcIGr196CVKPZeJ3
The winner will be certified with an online award from IPSF. The deadline for the essay is 23:59 GMT 5 February 2018 th
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