First IPSF AfricanPharmaceutical Symposium

Algiers- Algeria, 14th- 20th July 2012

3rd AfPS Newsletter

May 2012

First IPSF African Pharmaceutical Symposium Algiers- Algeria, 14th- 20th July 2012-3rd AfPS Newsletter-May 2012

The Leaders in training (LIT) program is a 4 days’ workshop, taking place 4 days before the symposium.

Leadership is a directed goal and plays an active role in groups and organizations, in fact a leader is a person who influences individuals and groups within an organization, helps them in establishing goals and guides them toward achievement of those goals by allowing them to be effective.

During the training and through workshops, participants will learn about themselves, they will be challenged to immerse themselves in learning activities that help them to get out of their comfort zone and into a leadership role.

This highly interactive and exciting program will definitely allow participants to develop and elevate their leadership abilities while building relationships with each other and having a lot of fun.

The LIT program is an excellent preparation for pharmacy students; especially those interested in taking up leadership in their associations or regions Topics covered during the sessions :

Personal development Communication

Project management Succession planning and group dynamics

Successful training

Leaders In Training “LIT"

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Good leaders are made, not born!

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Being a pharmacist in our times is no more staying behind the counter executing doctors' prescriptions. Being a pharmacist nowadays is being able to initiate a dialogue with the patient, is being able to create a trustworthy relationship with patient and above all being able to dispense the best advice to the patient concerning his / her therapeutic and help him/her to manage it. In short, the pharmacist of today needs to be a real counselor. Do you think that you are this pharmacist?

You might easily get the answer through your participation in the AfPS patient counseling event. This event comprises a workshop and a competition. During the workshop, you will review and discuss all the aspects of patient counseling. In the other hand The competition will be an opportunity to challenge yourself and why not reveal the «incredible counselor" you are! Take up the challenge and sign up to the AfPS Patient Counseling Event.

Patient Counseling Event “PCE”

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place. After that 2 competitions, individual and team competition, testing you clinical skills and your aptitude to solve various cases that the pharmacist might face and where he intervenes. Participants will be granted access to data and information allowing them to solve, in the most efficient way their clinical cases during competition. After what, winners of the competitions will be rewarded.

We believe that this event will inspire lots of graduating and post graduating pharmacists about the vital role played by pharmacists as a member of a healthcare team or in public health establishments and after all, pharmacy is the first free health space opened to people.

This is being a great year for clinical skills. This new brand IPSF activity directly integrated our association’s professional development program and had a great success among pharmacy students.

In fact clinical skills are vital for the pharmacist, as a health professional whether he works in his pharmacy or be in a public place, the pharmacist often faces clinical situations where his action and thus his clinical competences could be decisive, that’s why everybody welcomed this activity , and we are happy to host this year’s first AFPS where clinical skills event (CSE) will be represented.

Our CSE program includes a Workshop day, where different activities related to clinical knowledge and skills will take

Clinical Skills Event “CSE”

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The scientific symposium is a great opportunity to update knowledge on the main theme ‘’advances in drug development and quality control’’. Renowned speakers will share their expertise in the latest topics in the field. The conference will have interest for every future pharmacist to be informed of the latest innovations, techniques and ideas, and to have chance to discuss and debate.

The scientific symposium will include a student poster session. The posters can present primary research, secondary research or even reviews. Posters combine text and graphics in order to communicate information and ideas, and the informal and interactive setting of the poster session makes it easy to engage people in conversation and invite feedback.

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Educational symposium of Afps 2012 under the theme “Pharmacy Education: Beyond borders "Pharmacy Education Symposium presents an opportunity to discuss pharmacy curricula.This symposium which highlights pharmacy curriculum development, will be organized in Algeria for the first time.

The educational symposiums of Afps2012will consist of a mixture of plenary sessions and workshops from various invited speakers.

The large group of international participants will exchange ideas and innovations in education pharmacy school. Students and pharmacists from all the worlds will contribute to the debate and benefit from expert’s opinions.

Topics for discussion will include, among others, new trends in pharmacy education in Africa, introducing self-directed learning at an earlier level in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum, postgraduate programs in clinical pharmacy, and role of pharmacist in the individual patient care, clinical pharmacy, and career planning.

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Discover The New Scientific Activity Of IPSF!vThe IPSF-Afro Organizes a Special Symposium for Interns for the first time!

In 2010, pharmacy interns of Medicine Faculty of Algiers had organized a communication’s day which allowed them to present their scientific work; share their knowledge with their professors and colleagues, this exhibition had been called “Journée de l’interne en pharmacie” ( Pharmacy interns day)

The first “journée de l’interne en pharmacie” took place in AURASSI Hotel on 21st April 2010, this exhibition was successful! It caught all the attention and the interest of a lot of students and professors of several towns of Algeria.

One year after, the second “journée de l’interne en pharmacie” had been organized on 19thof May 2011, in which students from different Algerian pharmacy’s faculties have participated.

At the moment, the interns’ day become a real tradition in the pharmacy students’ culture.

This year, by being a part of the IPSF and by organizing the first African symposium of Pharmacy, the ASEPA proposed to introduce this holy activity into the IPSF activities and hope to let it become an international activity.

The Aim Of This Symposium Is To Encourage Intern Pharmacists To Be Creative, Productive And Passionate During Their Internship, And To Allow Them To Show Their Potential.

Oral Presentations Will Be Held In Simultaneous Sessions On Different Topics.Poster Competition Will Take Place During The Interns’ Symposium After The Communications.

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We want to give you an overview about AfPS’s workshops. We guarantee you a very rich, interesting and fruitful program.

You will meet the best speakers in the African region and all over the world. A wide variety of workshops will be proposed and we are sure that you’ll find your happiness.

Patient safety, what is our responsibility? A pharmacist is a professional who should care for the health of people and their well-being. He must ensure optimal medication therapy outcomes that achieve economic, clinical and humanistic goals and prevent medication errors. It is time to establish itself as an important link in the chain of drug dispensing.

ACDC WSAs you know, “counterfeit drugs” is one of the major threats to public health. FIP in collaboration with IPSF try to fight against this big issue. This is why, through this workshop, we will see all together the extent of the problem and try to suggest effective solutions.

Global health workforce migrationIn 2006, the World Health Organization estimated that low-income countries were particularly hard-hit by shortages of health personnel: of the 57 countries with a critical shortage, 36 were sub-Saharan African countries. Through this workshop, we will discuss the main causes and consequences for destination and origin countries and what can we do to stop this phenomenon.This is just a foretaste of what awaits you, so don’t hesitate one second to participate to our symposium and you’ll be amazed of how can we join the useful to the pleasant.

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More than 170 million persons are diabetics all over the world, according to these estimations figures risk doubling before 2030, which makes diabetes probably the illness of the century. With the intention to restrict the spread of this illness, the African Pharmaceutical Symposium will organize a campaign of information and free screening on July 18th, 2012 The main purpose of this campaign is to make a maximum of people aware of this illness which increasingly extents, give them life advices and food diet by distributing informative brochures,

making quizzes ( to assess their knowledge of diabetes) and free screenings. Other activities and competitions will take place during the campaign.

Public Health Campaign

Excursion

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Tipaza or Tipasa - تيبازة (people say Tipaza but it seems that the correct spelling is with an «s») is a coastal city and a wilaya of Algeria located 70 km west of the capital Algiers.Tipasa is originally a Punic Foundation (Origin of name: Punic = Tipaza idea of passage, of call.) in North Africa. Like all cities of the Mediterranean,

A short distance from the massive Chenoua, which shelters it from the west side, three headlands separated by deep bays at the foot of moderate hills which close the horizon to the South, the ancient city extended along sea about 1500 meters.

If one has only meager information on Tipasa, this is mainly that there archaeological research began only around 1895 - unfortunately too late to prevent much destruction and vandalism.In 1859, after an official document of four lime kilns were operating on the old city.

The first methodical excavations were made in 1891 by Stéphane Gsell and Abbot St.Gérand. They were interrupted rather abruptly with the death of the latter and it was only in 1913 that the Department of Historical Monuments began followed a more research on this site.

HistoryThe Phoenicians founded a trading post to the fifth century BC. AD The city has flourished under the Numidian king Juba II and becomes Caesaria with (current Cherchell) a hotbed of Greco-Roman culture in North Africa.Under the Roman Emperor Claudius I, Tipasa gets a long wall of over 2 km. The archaeological site of Tipasa contains various relics, the remains of a basilica. However, the largest city of the wilaya is Bou Ismail. Populations inhabiting the mountains are Berber dialect Tachenouit said, and Cherchell and Tenes.

Tipasa became Roman in the Roman province of Mauretania caesarean, then Christian.The presence of the sea, terrain and desert Chenoua give a particular landscape and tourist interest. Many Punic, Roman, Christian and African attest to the rich history of this colony.

Location and discovery At 70 kilometers west of Algiers, on the coast road Tipasa occupies a site that has hardly changed since antiquity.

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Good to know

• Area: 1707 KM ². • Population: 571,619 inhabitants. • Located 70 KM west of the capital Algiers. • 03 fishing ports (Cherchell, bouharoun, Khemisti) and a marina. • Roads: 1292 Km of national roads. • 10 business parks. • Industrial Activities: Food, Wood Paper, Leather, Textiles, construction materials, chemical industry. • 01Ecole State Tax and 01 National Institute of Navy. • Availability of skilled labor (an institute and 7 vocational training centers). • Natural Resources: Clay, Limestone, Gypsum, Sand, Andesite. • Water Resources: 02 dams Boukourdane (Sidi Amar) with a capacity of 97 with a capacity HM3 Meurad of an HM3, Edir (Damous) in the project, two desalination plants of seawater in the project (Fouka and Gouraya).

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The first African Pharmaceutical Symposium will welcome all participants to some of the best social events ever hosted during congress festivities! All are invited to join within these informal settings that will showcase the best that Algeria has to offer.

Opening Ceremony July14th, 2012:The Opening Ceremony will take place at the Hilton: the Hotel of the congress.

The participants will take dinner together; first contact, new friendships, in an atmosphere of tender and soothing instrumental classical music and traditional songs will transport you to discover the traces of Andalusian History left in Algeria.

Dress code: semi formal.

Social events

Kheima party July15th, 2012:Did you ever visit the Desert and feel the Sharienne peace !

Here is the unmissable occasion, typically the southern evening, “Kheima Party” Algerian traditional dishes for dinner, in a traditional Design, with local animation; folkloric dancers groups, gnawa music …

Participants will taste the most popular complement, original nomadic Tea with salty nuts and sweet Temmina, kalb el louz, zlabya…

They also will get Herkouss (nice drawings on hands) and some Saharan souvenirs.

Dress code: casual

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International night July16th, 2012:Each delegation will present their country with a big flag, their culture and traditions among clothes, local products and famous dishes. They can also give souvenirs to the new friends they met.

Do not forget to prepare a video to show your country traditional songs and dances… Let’s make it really a rich night.

Dress code: traditional clothes.

Auction July17th, 2012: That will be the one from the most interesting parties; it will take place at the Rays Palladium: Bastion 23 which actually is a museum, among the most important Historical monuments of Algiers city, one of the last witnesses that attest the physical extension of the Madina of El Djazair (Casbah) to the sea, during the Ottoman Period. After the auction, participants will visit the museum, and close the evening by Karaoke Party.

Dress code: casual

Gala night July19th, 2012: The closing ceremony, a Gala dinner will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Active animation with a DJ orchestra, we will assist together to the Delivery of Trophies and awards, certificates… You will also appreciate the RCs’ Song, then sing it with us.

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Overview on AlgiersAlgiers (Arabic: اجلزائر , al-Jazā’ir; Algerian Arabic: Berber: Dzayer ) Is the capital and the ,دزايرlargest city of Algeria

Called El-Behdja (البهجة) or alternatively Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore; the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 122 metres (400 ft) above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle.

Many interested and historical places wait for your visit!

The Monument des Martyrs ( Maquam E' chahid ) which is an iconic concrete monument commemorating the Algerian war for independence.

Notre Dame d'Afrique , accessible by one cable car, is one of the city's most outstanding monuments.

The Jardin d'essai (Garden of Test; El-Hamma): situated in the east of Algiers, it contains exotic plants and gardens. It was created in 1832 by A. Hardy.

Riadh El-Feth (shopping centre and art gallery), Ketchaoua Mosque (This mosque became the Saint-Philippe cathedral during colonization before becoming again a mosque).

The Great Mosque of Algiers at the Rue de la Marine. It is the oldest mosque of Algiers and was built during the reign of the Almoravid sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin.

See you in Algeria!