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Table of contents ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Presidential words 4 French Faluche review 15 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 10 things about antibiotics 5 Bologna process 16 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 5th Autumn Assembly - Dubrovnik 6 Life after studies? 17 ------------------------------------------------------- From studies to work Map of Competences project 8 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Professional Development 18 Pharmaceutical Care survey 10 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- e-Prescribing 19 BhPSA 12 ------------------------------------------------------- Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Students Association TWINNET events 20 - 23 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- A.N.E.P.F. 13 Pharmaceutical Sciences Articles 24 French National Pharmaceutical ------------------------------------------------------- Studentsʼ Association Pharmacy education in UK 25 ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Dear Reader, You are looking at the second edition of the 16th volume of EPSA Newsletter. I tried to focus on what EPSA is doing at the moment - developing projects, as well as to show you some great results we have achieved and collected in past few months. Design in coming pages is little bit more flexible than it was before, I hope you will like it, because it shows some creativity in our “molecular” life. Everyone I asked to write an article for EPSA Newsletter kindly and quickly answered which shows just how much students want to participate and help! Beside our already established collaboration with DIA (Drug Information Association) and AstraZeneca , who also contributed their articles as part of Partnership, we have some new partners, and hopefully will have much more soon. Enjoy your reading, in a bus, train, plain, home or during lectures :-) Edited and designed by: Bojan Davinić EPSA Vice-President of Communication 2008/2009 [email protected] 3 Presidential words Dear EPSA Friends, As students, travelling is something which in- terests the majority of us. EPSA offers so many It gives me great pleasure opportunities for that. Throughout this publica- to introduce to you the tion you can read about the various team mobil second newsletter for the EPSA team mandate ity projects organised throughout this year, the 2008/2009. It is hard to IMP Project and also EPSA events organised believe that nine months by the EPSA team. It gives me great pleasure have already passed to look back at the photos of all these events since the congress in and see all the smiling faces of all those stu- Serbia. Since April 2008 dents t h e E P S A t e a m h a s worked very hard to make this association one who have left a mark on EPSA and have con- of the most respected student organisations out tributed to make my term as president a suc- there and if you have a look at this newsletter I cessful and rewarding one. am sure you will be as convinced of this as I am. I would like to thank those students who have submitted any sort of article be it scientific or Indeed 2008 has been a very special year for descriptive for this newsletter as they have all EPSA. We have seen the successful launch of contributed in sharing knowledge and spreading a new project the EPSA MAP of Competencies. the EPSA Spirit to all the corners of Europe. This project is a really important one not only for EPSA but also for you, my dear friends, as it Finally I would like to end by expressing my is you who will ultimately profit from it. You can gratitude to the amazing team I have been read all about it in a very interesting article you working with over the past months. EPSA has will find in this newsletter. had many successes through the hard work and dedication of everyone on this team. I Our Working Committees have all been working would like to encourage all of you out there to extremely hard in gathering information about get involved in your student associations and in the hottest topics around the EU. By gathering EPSA. Being a student is not only about books knowledge of how things work in different coun- and studying; itʼs about experiences and memo- tries EPSA can really hope to make a difference ries which will help you grow as a person and and this is also what makes EPSA so unique – as a professional. Just look around you there it brings together the voices, experiences and are many ways of getting involved and every opinions of pharmacy students all over Europe. little bit counts. I look forward to meeting you in For this I want to thank the Working Committee France for the EPSA Annual Congress. Directors for their dedication and also the Work- ing Committee members for gathering all this information. Yours in EPSA, I would like to urge you to have a look at these articles, and contact the authors of these arti- Marisabelle Bonnici cles with any comments you might have. EPSA President 2008 - 2009 4 10 things I know about antibiotics Antibiotic Awareness Day European Antibiotic Awareness Day is a European They are medicines efficient only Health Initiative in close collaboration with the against infections caused by bacte- World Health Organization. Its first edition took ria, which donʼt help me cure my place this year, on 18th November, and focused common cold or flu (infections specifically on the need for everybody to caused by viruses) stop any unnecessary use of antibiotics. It is important to take my treatment The EPSA Public Health Working Commit- to an end and not give up antibiotics tee celebrated this day and selected 10 as soon as I feel better essential things we should all know about antibiotics; below you can find these statements, There are also natural “antibiotics” together with pictures from the field work done in (garlic, honey, oregano, thyme, Bucharest, Romania by the students in pharmacy. sage, Echinacea), which donʼt show adverse reactions and can During this health awareness campaign we distributed question- strengthen my immune system naires and flyers among the young public, aiming to find out their perception about antibiotics and draw their attention on the impor- It is important for me to take antibiot- tance of using these medicines in a responsible manner. ics only by following the physicianʼs or pharmacistʼs advice The results of the survey we did in Romania during They are prescription only medicines campaign: -Out of 165 people, 77% take antibiotics following the physicianʼs ad- Frequent usage can lead to unde- vice and 88% follow the treatment as the pharmacist/doctor told them sired reactions, such as: gastro- - 69% of the respondents are aware of the fact that antibiotics cure intestinal disorders (diarrhoea, nau- infections caused by bacteria, but 41% still believe that these medi- sea), weakening of the immune sys- cines are efficient against viruses too tem, predisposition to allergic reac- - 62% know that one of the undesired effects is the growth of drug tions, kidneys and liver conditions resistant bacteria, while 57% mention the gastrointestinal disorders - 64% state that they are careful about consuming alcohol while they Alcohol can increase the adverse are under a treatment with antibiotic, but only 55% are aware about reactions and extend the diseaseʼs the significance of an antibiogram duration And, the most important outcome: - 96% say that they need to know more about antibiotics; 45 % prefer Antibiotics donʼt take away my pain to get this information from a doctor and 50% from pharmacists and (headaches, sore throat, tooth public health campaigns. aches) and donʼt reduce fever This encourages us to con- If I use birth control pills, itʼs good to tinue the health awareness use an additional contraception campaigns in this direction, method during the antibiotics treat- so that the Antibiotic Aware- ment ness Day will be celebrated yearly by our local associa- Irresponsible administration can lead tion (SSFB) and by the to antibiotics not showing the right EPSAʼs PH WC. effect in the future Public Health Working Committee 5 5th EPSA Autumn Assembly Dubrovnik, Croatia 2008 The 5th EPSA Autumn Assembly was held from 20th- 25th of October in fantastic city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, situated on a coast of Adriatic sea. Participants enjoyed sunny weather, sea view from hotel, amazing lecturers during a Symposium day with European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP), great workshops, inspiring social program and of course true EPSA Spirit! This autumnʼs theme was Pharmaceutical Care Models and Therapeutic Innovations. 3 speakers held lecturers (Mr. Fergal Cooney, Dr. Julienne Johnson and Dr. Tony Bayer) in fantastic 5 star hotel with beautiful view of the sea, as well as 3 student speakers (Ms. Aja Petrikova, Ms. Ersa Tsout- soura and Ms. Magdalena Kurnik). EPSA is pleased how these 6 lecturers were attended, and how the discussions were live. After all the lecturing Heena Bhakta, Working Com- mittee Professional Development Director took the microphone and with very dynamic approach among the participants, lead all the discussions among students, lecturers and guests. Atmosphere was