What can EPSA offer you

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What can EPSA offer you?!
Bringing Students, Knowledge and Pharmacy Together
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General information

• EPSA is founded in 1978 as sub-committee of IPSF,
  since 1982 independent
• Represents 120 000 pharmacy students from 33
  European countries. Organised through 45 member
  organisations

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Structure
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General Aims

• Representing the students voice in the European
  pharmaceutical lobby
• Close contact with all professional bodies in
  Europe
• Informing them with the opinion of students and
  EPSA
• Advocate the pharmacy profession from a students
  point of view
• Informing students about the European
  pharmaceutical topics
• Make students active and involved in EPSA and on
  a local level

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EPSA contacts
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How to get involved - Events

• EPSA Annual Congress
• 16th 23rd April, the Hague
• What society needs from pharmacy
• GAs, workshops, social programme
• First fee 325,-
• EPSA Autumn Assembly
• In collaboration with ESCP
• EPSA and ESCP program
• GAs, workshops, social programme
• October 2007 Athens

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How to get involved - Events

• EPSA Summer University
• Summer 2007 Malta
• Morning lectures
• Afternoon social programme
• Perfect event to get involved in EPSA
• and experience the EPSA spirit
• WorldHSS
• Collaboration with EMSA, IFMSA
• and IPSF
• Multi professional collaboration
• 27 nov 1 dec Portugal
• 150

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Events

• Attend discussions on an European level about
  pharmacy with other students
• Get more experience about the situation in
  pharmacy in Europe
• More knowledge about other countries
• Improve your Skill Set
• Meet other people and have a lot of fun
• Get active on an European level get active in
  EPSA

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Training Camps

• Bridging pharmacy students with the professional
  life"
• Improve the knowledge of pharmacy students about
  pharmacy in Europe
• Important topics to which not enough attention is
  paid in our pharmacy curriculum
• Skills from clinical pharmacy, consultation
  skills, communication skills to leadership skills
• The 1st TC held during the 8th SU (Ohrid,
  Macedonia) where students learned about
  Consultation Skills
• Train the trainer on a local level

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Where can you be active?
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Working Committees (1)

• 8 different Working Committees which focus on a
  topic
• Each committee has a member of each country
• Discussion about the topic, implementing
  campaigns, work on statements
• Bringing awareness of the topic on a local level

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Working Committees (2)

• Pharmacy Education
• Information on Bologna Process and Lisbon
  Strategy
• Multi-professional collaboration, together with
  WHSS
• Council of Europe Contribution on higher
  education
• EAFP framework of competences necessary for
  pharmacy practice in all schools of pharmacy in
  Europe

• Public Health
• EPSA stands for a more public health related
  approach of pharmacists towards their profession
• Local Level organise campaigns on European
  public health topics
• EPSA provides guidelines on how to implement a
  campaign

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Working Committees (3)

• Pharmacy Awareness
• Multi-professional Collaboration
• Local level MPC events, EPSA provides guidelines
• Local Level Pharmacy Awareness Campaigns, EPSA
  provides guidelines

• Professional Development
• Lifelong Learning Certificate
• Career Development Project
• Improving skils set
• Trying to make students more pro-active and
  become leaders as a pharmacist
• Informing students about EU directives in
  relation to pharmacy

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Working Committees (4)

• Humanitarian
• Provide information about the role of pharmacists
  in Humanitarian field
• Promote good humanitarian actions according WHO
  guidelines
• Local level make students active to carry out
  humanitarian actions

• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Collaboration EAHP
• EPSA/EAHP students award
• Free EAHP congress 500
• Free subscription ot EJHP science
• Scientific Supplement in collaboration with EMSA
• Research database

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Working Committees (5)

• Mobility
• Team and Individual mobility
• Individual
• Provide all kind of information when going abroad
• Future promote vacancies for internships and
  jobs to members
• Team
• Twinning provide information and potential
  partners
• Promotion of local events Le Crit Pharma,
  Pharmacon, Balkanian congress

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Publications
Paper publications
Online publications Get through EPSA news
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Get involved!

• Read Newletters and other publications
• Go to EPSA events
• Experience the EPSA spirit!
• Get involved in Working Committees
• Learn more about european topics in pharmacy
• Get more involved and take an official position
  in EPSA!!
• Do not miss this great opportunity!!

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Contacts
EPSA19-21 rue du Luxembourg 1000 Brussels,
Belgium
Email epsaoffice_at_epsa-online.org Internet
www.epsa-online.org