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Wine & Cheese 2022 🍷🧀

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Our annual Wine & Cheese was held on Saturday, the 7th of May at Lonestar as per usual!

We are incredibly grateful for our strong relationship with the Lonestar team, and they did an incredible job managing the night and keeping all our student attendees safe! Shout out to Amy, our superstar Social Rep for all her work in organising an amazing night!

Special thanks also goes out to Michael Trillo for the incredible photography! Check out his facebook page for the full album of photos!

But for now, here’s a wee snippet of what the night looked like:

White Coat Ceremony

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The traditional white coat ceremony was held at the University of Otago on Saturday 22nd February. The ceremony welcomed 131 new students into the Pharmacy School. This year the students received inspirational wishes in the pocket of their new white coats, written from Otago Pharmacy graduates.

Please enjoy some of the photographs taken at the ceremony by Alan Dove!

The ceremony also featured in the Otago Daily Times:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/messages-inspire-new-generation

P2 Students in White Coat
P2 Students Receiving Special Wishes
IMU Exchange Students & Sue Heydon
New P2 Students
Robbie Hannon & Dean Carlo Marra

 

Congratulations to the 2018 Executive!

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Tonight we had our annual general meeting where we announced our new executive for 2018.

Congratulations to:

President: Laura Pidcock

Secretary: Sophie Elliott-Buma

Treasurer: Ash Singh

Education representative: Jemma Fielding

Contact person/Liaison Officer: Ruby Gallavin

Student Exchange Officer/Welfare Representative: Nadine King

Social Representative: Rebecca Angus

Sports Representative: Marc Rooney

Marketing Representative: Emma Gray

Revue Representative: Mitchell Smith

We’d also like to congratulate all candidates who ran for positions this year. It was a tough week with difficult choices made between so many talented students. We are so lucky to have so many amazing members.

 

The kemu has been created for health care professionals

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Kia ora, this week is Māori language week. Some staff at the University of Otago have developed a great app called Aki Hauora which can be downloaded using the following link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details…
The kemu has been created for health care professionals, to help you learn and become familiar with te reo words (kupu) that can be used in a health care setting.
Go on a give it a go!

Congratulations Sonja Bimler

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The NZ Pharmacy Awards 2017 were held recently. A massive congratulations to Sonja Bimler who received the Future Pharmacist of the Year Award! This award recognises a fourth year B pharm student who shows passion for the pharmacy profession and insightful ideas in completing an essay on a predetermined professional topic. Well done Sonja!!

63rd annual International Pharmaceutical Students Federation World Congress in Tapei, Taiwan

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Our NZAPS-O delegates are almost at the end of the 63rd annual IPSF (International Pharmaceutical Students Federation) World Congress in Tapei, Taiwan. The delegates have attended a variety of workshops, education symposiums, scientific symposiums, and represented the organisation at General Assembly.

We are one of over 100 countries represented in IPSF. NZAPS-O’s new voting rights within IPSF as full members has allowed us to influence changes and decisions affecting us on an international scale. We are also excited to announce that in General Assembly we have were appointed as one of the new member associations in the Auditing Committee – this will involve us looking over the IPSF treasurer’s report, world congress national report and the regional symposium financial reports over the next year.

This is an exciting opportunity for NZAPS-O and our members to be more involved in IPSF and have even more of a say. Next years IPSF world congress will be held in Argentina, and next years Asia Pacific Regional Symposium will be held in Japan.

 

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OUSA Welfare Representative Danielle Pope

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Our own amazing Danielle Pope as the Welfare rep for OUSA has organised for 2500 students at Otago University to get a free flu jab. To get a FREE flu jab, call Student Health and book into one of their flu vaccination clinics to prevent you getting sick this winter!

See Otago Daily Times article https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/free-flu-jabs-2500-students

 

2017 P2 Camp

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Our legendary initiation into the School of Pharmacy is our P2 camp. This year we took all new students to Waiora Scout Camp from Monday 13th February to Wednesday 15th February.

Thank you to our sponsors this year:

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand

Larson’s Pharmacy

Go Healthy New Zealand

BDO Accountants and Advisors

Huge credit to Alice Weil for organising such a successful camp.