IV SINAEF: Virtuality was not a barrier

INTRODUCTION

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One of the most relevant and anticipated events of the year held by the Costa Rican Federation of Pharmacy students is the National Symposium of Pharmacy Students, which brings together students from all the universities that teach the Bachelor ' s Degree in Pharmacy of the country and also professionals in Pharmacy or related careers.

The SINAEF was characterized by a space full of learning, but in addition to this, it allowed to bring all the students closer together and generate new ties and projects, apart from generating a greater sense of belonging to the Federation as such.

Unlike in previous years, the situation of the Covid-19 pandemic generated a drastic change at the same time a challenge for the organization of the Symposium, to carry it out for the first time under a 100% virtual modality. Along with virtuality they came difficulties but on the other hand many advantages and facilities but mainly the opportunity to innovate and be creative in solutions. Logistics: Diana Calderón, Pablo Hidalgo, Priscilla Malavassi, Karissa Quirós, Jimena Campos, Jessica Rodríguez, Nicole Bueno, Daniela Rodríguez, Karla Alvarado, Paz Salas, Sara Sánchez and Valeria Carrillo. Sponsorship: Liliana Torres, Fabricio Montes, Gloriana González, David Arias, Mariana Roldán and Lilliam Camacho. Advertising: Ariana Quirós, Jeniffer Sandí, Cristy Villalobos, Adrián Mora and Mauricio Miranda.

DEVELOPING

For all the logistics of this event to be successful, it was necessary to recruit a fairly large organizing committee and each member with the ideal qualities to perform each assigned task -The event was organized thanks to the hard work of 32 people, divided into 5 committees:

• Academic: Álvaro Alfaro, Valeria Jiménez, Karla Coto, Fernanda Rojas, Belén Arroyo and Irene Vindas. Social Activities: Killian Zúñiga, Alonso Quirós and Alison Martínez.

One of the great advantages that the virtualization of the Symposium brought is that this has been the SINAEF that has had the most participants, since there were a total of 280 registered people, which is a much higher number than the previous Symposiums since by themes of space in the facility could never have such a large number of attendees. One of the ways to innovate at this event was to devise a welcome kit, which required hard work from the logistics commission to reach all corners of the country. Another novelty that this edition of SINAEF presented was that a mascot was had for the first time:

“Galydonna ” , which was designed by Jeniffer Sandí.

The main theme of this Symposium was

"The Pharmacy of the Future " , which is why the academic committee undertook the task of inviting a series of professionals of the highest quality, who gave talks that were very useful and that allowed the learning outside the classroom.