Research Symposium

On January 10th, 2015 the Office of Research will be hosting the First Annual Research Symposium. Faculty members will present their current research. Students will also have the opportunity to display their research posters and potentially have the opportunity to give an oral presentation, if selected. Abstracts are due December 12^th.  Free breakfast, lunch and a cash bar with Hors d’oeuvres with be provided.Registration is FREE and is now open. See the attached flyer for the symposium schedule.

Please visit this website to register: http://pharmacy.presby.edu/or/symposium-on-pharmacy-science-2015/

This will suffice your GAP meeting requirement and you will also have the opportunity to learn about research opportunities with our faculty!Registration closes December 12^th. Contact Dr. Romero-Sandoval with any questions. 

Attachment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtKycpSYoy4YUVkWnQ3cnVoVjA/view?usp=sharing

APhA-ASP Yankee Candle Fundraiser

The APhA-ASP Yankee Candle Fundraiser is still available online!  This is a great opportunity for everyone to grab gifts for the whole family, yourself included!!!  Simply follow this link (www.yankeecandlefundraising.com) and enter group number (990069692) to browse all the great products available!

If you have any questions please contact Paige Street (pnstreet@presby.edu).

Red Heart Gala Interest Meeting

Red heart health month is quickly approaching! Before December break comes in full force we need to begin planning The Red Heart Gala, which will be February 21, 2015. In order for this event to be successful again this year we need some input and help from students! There will be an interest meeting this Friday, November 12, 2014 at 12pm in room 141. There will be committees to help with decoration, t-shirt, and advertising/sales. This is a great way to get some leadership experience and get to know people you have not gotten an opportunity to work with. Please email Amy DuPont at aldupont@presby.edu if you are unable to make it to the meeting or if there are any further questions. 

CPFI

We are having a non-pharmacy community service event Monday, November 10th from 6:30-7:30

pm.  We will be playing games with the children at Thornwell Children's Home in Clinton.  If you are interested please contact Amanda Holloman (agholloma@presby.edu).  Members who have already signed up, be on the lookout for an email. 

There is a Campus Worship Night on main campus Wednesday, November 12th at 7pm in Edmonds Hall.  Everyone is welcome and it will be a great time of fellowship and worship!

Our next chapter meeting is November 17th 12-1.  Be on the lookout for a survey monkey for lunch.

Do you have any extra shoeboxes?  We would greatly appreciate any donated shoeboxes for our philanthropy, Operation Christmas Child!  If you would like to donate shoeboxes, you can give them to Jenny Goetzmann, Markie Webster, or Amanda Holloman or put them in their boxes.  Thank you! We will be taking up filled shoeboxes November 17th-21st.  Please refer to this website for how to pack a shoebox: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/pack-a-shoe-box/

What is not allowed in the shoebox: Used or damaged items; war-related items such as toy guns, knives or military figures; chocolate or food; out-of-date candy; liquids or lotions; medications or vitamins; breakable items such as snow globes or glass containers; aerosol cans.

For further questions please contact Markie Webster (lmwebster@presby.edu).

Join us for bible study Wednesday morning 8-8:20 in room 141.  Breakfast will be provided!!

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” –Ephesians 2:10

Compounding Competition

Compounding Competition

A Message from Dr. Asbill, Professor of Pharmaceutics:

Please contact Dr. Asbill if you have any questions(csasbill@presby.edu).

I am happy to announce that on Saturday, January 17th, the PCSP will be hosting a local compounding competition for our pharmacy students.  This event is being sponsored by Medisca.  The winning group we select from our local competition will represent the PCSP at the National Competition this spring (March 21st and 22nd) at the University of Florida.  A sign-up sheet will be posted shortly by NCPA President Paige Ross on NCPA’s bulletin board upstairs.   For the National competition, there are three components in which each group will be evaluated (Compounding Classic, Regulatory Challenge and Quality Compounding).

The compounding classic component features the formulation, preparation, presentation and documentation of three (3) compounded medications. From a list of chemicals provided, students are asked to allocate each one to a specific medication and associated delivery system for a given route of delivery.

The regulatory challenge component features a regulatory challenge whereby students are issued a single or series of controversial issues involving regulatory standards of practice. Prior to this event, student teams, along with their faculty representative, will have been given the opportunity to formulate a written response, following a prescribed template, in an attempt to ultimately find reasonable solutions to a series of challenges facing today’s compounding industry experts. Teams will select an orator to deliver a clear message and defend a position stand on the issue(s) being addressed before a panel of industry experts, fellow students and faculty.

The quality compounding component features the creation and hosting of a kiosk at a trade show. In a highly interactive and social milieu, each student member of the team will be afforded the opportunity to represent themselves at a trade show. Kiosk posters will be created on-site. Representation of the underlying concept(s) is the focus of this event.

For our local competition, groups will compete in a compounding classic component and it will be similar in design to the nationalcompetition.  In addition, we will have a written component (test) in which students will have to perform calculations involving compoundedpreparation and answer questions about general information regarding the compounding of both sterile and non sterile preparations.  In addition, there will be a formal debate by each of the groups.

Teams are a group of three students.  Only the P2s, P3s and P4s are allowed to compete in the local competition.  The date of our local competition will be Saturday, January 17, 2015.   

NCPA

Our next meeting will be this Monday, November 10th from 12-1 and we will be having Chili for lunch! Also our annual Christmas ornament fundraiser will be this week everyday from 12-1 in the Cafe. Lastly, this week is NCPA/APhA Diabetes Awareness Week and each day trivia questions will be in Rooms 104 and 271 and there will be prizes! Don't forget to wear red on Friday! Click on the link below for more details about the fundraiser.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtKycpSYoy4UEdua3kwd0J1dzA/view?usp=sharing

Evaluation Competition

We know that teacher, course, preceptor, and experiential site evaluations are time consuming and can be somewhat tedious at times.  The input that we receive from you from these evaluations is immensely important to us, though.  We want to do something to help provide a little extra incentive for completing your evaluations that you might appreciate. 

So, here are the details:

·         Beginning November 7^th, the response rates for teacher, course, preceptor, and experiential site evaluations will begin being tracked for each class.  This information will then be provided to you on a weekly basis via PharmNews.

·         On November 25^th, the classes who have achieved a response rate of at least 85% will be announced. 

·         Each class who has achieved a response rate of at least 85% as of November 25^th will be invited to dress down during the week of December 1^stthrough 5^th.  While 85% may seem high, I can assure you that we have had classes well-surpass this rate in the past.

As you are completing your evaluations, please keep these notes in mind:

·         Do your best to make your comments count.  You can do this by making them professional, objective, descriptive (by providing examples), and specific to the course or instructor you are evaluating.

·         Don’t fill in comment blanks with not applicable or N/A, etc.  Just skip the box. 

Your feedback is anonymous.  If you have any questions regarding evaluations, feel free to contact Ms. Funderburk, Director of Assessment and Academic Services at mlfunderb@presby.edu.

Thank you sincerely for giving of your time and energy to provide us with your important feedback!!!

Current evaluation completion rate stats are (as of November 7^th):

Class of 2016: 43%

Class of 2017: 58%

Class of 2018: 54%