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Dear all IPSFers! A successful year has been left behind! After the 55th IPSF Congress in Bali, Indonesia, I’m sure you all have fully charged your batteries with enterprise and motivation to start this new year in IPSF with a lot of energy! Immediate Past Chairperson of Student Exchange Yours in IPSF, NAPSer Serbia Dear IPSFers, Hello fellow IPSFers, NAPSA AustraliaTRANSCRIPT
Introduction Dear all IPSFers! A successful year has been left behind! After the 55th IPSF Congress in Bali, Indonesia, I’m sure you all have fully charged your batteries with enterprise and motivation to start this new year in IPSF with a lot of energy! For me, it’s been a truly busy and challenging year. Above all, I have to thank my Exec family for their love and support. Of course, I cannot forget to mention my Student Exchange Officers: they are the main reason why I woke up with IPSF and went to bed with IPSF every single day for one whole year, and they have encouraged me to fulfil my duties with their trust and their friendship! I can truly say that there would be no SEP without them! However, I can truly say as well that there would be no Chairperson of Student Exchange without the Student Exchange Committee, and I want to dedicate this Newsletter to these amazing people, who have worked hand in hand with me along the year and have been my inspiration, my advisers and, above all, my friends. Thank you all!! And now, please, give a loud applause to the Student Exchange Committee 2008-09!! Yours in IPSF,
Immediate Past Chairperson of Student Exchange
Dear IPSFers, I’m Slaviša Stojkovid from Serbia, member of the IPSF Student Exchange Committee for the last two years. I finished my Master studies two years ago and my specialization only 6 months ago. However, the IPSF spirit is still in me. I was the SEO for NAPSer Serbia from 2006 to 2008, but my engagement
with IPSF dates from 2005. My first involvement was in IPSF Moving On II as NAPSer Pharmacy Education Coordinator, and I started in SEP as a host to a student from Latvia. This was a very good experience which encouraged me to apply for exchange in 2006, when I spent a wonderful month in Bandung, Indonesia. I keep very good memories of my training there and the great friendships I made. That trip broadened my horizons in every field and SEP became one of my major activities for future years. Yours in IPSF,
NAPSer Serbia
Hello fellow IPSFers,
I am Melissa Teo from Australia. I
graduated from the University of South
Australia with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in
2007 and completed my pharmacy
internship in 2008. I am currently working
as a registered pharmacist in hospital
pharmacy in Adelaide. I started becoming
involved with IPSF when I was elected to be
the SEO and CP for NAPSA
Australia in 2007. It was an
amazing experience to
meet and connect with so
many people across the
world under the banner of
IPSF. SEP opened my eyes
to the world of pharmacy
practice, and great
differences between
pharmacy practice here in
Australia and in other parts
of the world. Above all, I
get to call the people I met along the way
friends and will continue to call them
friends for the rest of my life! Overall, being
involved in IPSF and, in particular, SEP is a
great experience and I highly recommend it
to any pharmacy student across the world!
NAPSA Australia
Dear IPSFers,
I am Marzena J. Kiryk,
a 22 years old
pharmacy student.
My involvement in
IPSF began when I
was elected as the
SEO for YP Poland
in 2008. It was my 2nd
year of studies! I was really afraid not to be
a proper candidate, I thought I was too
young for this post, but my SEO predecessor
had infected me with the IPSF spirit and I
was really grateful for that. Today I can say
that there is no better way to become
involved in the world of pharmacy! After
having an amazing time at the 54th IPSF
Congress in Romania and being elected as a
SEC member, I started this year with greater
enthusiasm, and it even increased when I
found out what an amazing team is SEC.
We’ve been working on so many new ideas
to improve SEP in every possible way.
Meeting so many new people from all
around the world on a daily basis is a great
adventure that lasts for years! Greetings
from Poland,
YP Poland
Dear friends of IPSF,
I am Kerstin Heyder
from Germany. I
finished my Pharmacy
degree at the University
of Jena, Germany, last
year. Right now I am
doing my compulsory
internship at a community pharmacy in
Frankfurt. I’ve been a member of the IPSF
Student Exchange Committee for 2 years.
Some of you may know me from my time as
SEO for BPhD Germany during SEP year
2007-08. Being involved in IPSF has turned
out to be a little hobby of mine. Once I
joined in, I never wanted to leave! It has
been 3 years from now when I got infected
with the IPSF spirit at my first IPSF Congress
in Cairns, Australia, back in 2006 and, since
then, it has been an amazing time with
many incredible moments that I do not
want to miss.
I am really happy that I decided to do more
than just university stuff and I would
recommend it to everyone who is
interested in helping to improve pharmacy
education worldwide and in broadening
their horizons. Let the IPSF spirit catch you!
Yours in IPSF,
BPhD Germany
Hi, I´m Tomás Valena from Slovakia. I’ve just finished my 4th
year of Master studies at Comenius University in Bratislava,
Slovakia, and have experienced a magical year 2009. But
I should start from the beginning, because there is a point when IPSF got me. I started to be
involved with IPSF after summer 2007, when I spent a great time on SEP in Serbia. Then
I realized that was what I had always wanted -connecting people from all over the world to
cooperate together. With this IPSF spirit I joined SPSA Slovakia afterwards and started to spread
this feeling among friends and students. After a month, I was elected Chairperson of Foreign
Affairs and SEO for SPSA Slovakia. I had great responsibility but, on reward, I got lots of joy,
huge portion of experiences and the biggest of all lifelong friendships. This year has been even
better, but also really busy: SEC member, SEO, SPSA member and also experiencing Erasmus
exchange in Barcelona, Spain. Brilliant! We have already accomplished a lot and that pushes me
forward and further, but there is still a huge space for improvement. This is the right way. Try it,
experience it, you´ll never forget it. May the IPSF spirit be with you!
SPSA Slovakia
My name is Bálint Tóth, a third-year student from the southern part
of beautiful Hungary. I am the SEO of my country (literally just
taking a break from partying with the exchange students while
writing this), also I have the pleasure to be part of this year’s
amazing SEC, as well as helping to create the 60th Anniversary
History Book and chip in with the Humanitarian SC and my national
association too. It first started in 2007 for me when I volunteered to
be a helper for the exchange students in Budapest and it got me
immediately! Since then, the famous IPSF spirit took me on to experience some of the best
moments of my life, from educating locals in rural Ghana on drug awareness to meeting up
with newly found friends for tapas and cider in Madrid, you name it! All in all I would like to
encourage everyone to be a part of this great group of friends, I can say, SEC is. You will not
regret it. Vive la pharmacie, vive la IPSF!
HuPSA Hungary.
I am Francis Sixtus Banyi from Ghana. On 29th April 2009, I
completed my Pharmacy degree at the University of Science
and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Currently, I am waiting to
begin my compulsory internship program by the first week of
October 2009 at a hospital pharmacy in Akosombo, Ghana. I
am a member of the IPSF Student Exchange Committee. Quite
a number of you might know me from when I was the SEO
and CP for GPSA Ghana between November 2006 and
December 2008. For the past 3 years, I have had an unbelievable experience with IPSF. I have
had the opportunity to make really good friends worldwide who are all in favour of the need to
promote pharmacy education and practice around the globe. I highly recommend IPSF to
anyone; not only pharmacy students and young pharmacists but also to other professionals to
get on board this train to promote pharmacy education and practice. Warm regards from
Ghana,
GPSA Ghana
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