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Question:

Describe in detail the extracurricular experience (leadership, involvement in the community

service, student Pre- professional activities) you included on and how these experiences will
shape you as future pharmacist.

Answer:

Pharmacy is the profession which has always infatuated me from my childhood days and that is
the reason I chose to be a part of it. What I like most about this vocation is that it will help me
explore and enhance social, cultural and educational opportunities. The position of a pharmacist
provides a unique and distinct relationship between the patients and the doctors. As a pharmacist,
I would be getting an opportunity to help people in my own ways by helping them by
encouraging and improving their lifestyle (style of living a healthy life) and by providing them
safe medication. Not everyone in this works is fortunate enough to contribute to the mankind.
Since, I have always been keen to help people; this vocation is the best way I could serve the
mankind. That is the reason my inclination towards few extracurricular activities have been
preexistent before joining this course and I am sure that being part of these activities will help
me inculcating some more skills which will help me in becoming a better pharmacist, and most
importantly a better human being.

Below mentioned are few extracurricular activities which I mentioned in the PharmCAS
application, which, I think, helped me and will help me in future as well to shape me well as a
future Pharmacist.

1. Member of CPPS APhA-ASP organization: Pharmacists can assume an imperative part

as pioneers to diminish understanding risks related to patients' health, advance the
sheltered capacity of drug administration frameworks, and adjust pharmacy
administrations to national activities that measure and compensate quality execution.
CPPS APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) is the association of the
pharmacist students who collectively work for improvement of patients’ healthcare, and
aim to envisage and develop the future of pharmacy along with professional growth.
Being a part of this organization has not only helped me being a part of some significant
patient care projects, opportunities as leaders and be a part of national and regional
healthcare projects. To become a pharmacist leader, I can provide awareness to the
healthcare organizations regarding the provision of valuable resources and complexity of

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medication management. As a pharmacist , following are few steps which I can take to
create and sustain a safe self-medication system and an effective management structure:
 Distinguish and alleviate prescription administration vulnerabilities and risks to
diminish preventable patient damage
 Build up pharmacy administration structures and frameworks to guarantee
hierarchical consciousness of medicine gaps related to safety.
 Support an authoritative culture of promote and practice safe use of drugs.
 Guarantee proof/evidence based medicine solution treatments for all patients.
 Have every day registration calls/meetings, with the essential spotlight on critical
wellbeing or quality issues.
 Build up a prescription wellbeing board of trustees.
 Perform drug wellbeing walk-rounds to assess pharmaceutical procedures, and
solicitation bleeding edge staff's information about prescription safe practices.
 Ensure that pharmacy staff to participate in cooperation, expertise building, and
correspondence preparing.
 Take part in status getting ready for execution of health information technology.
 Incorporate solution history-taking and surveys upon section into the association;
drug guiding and preparing amid the release process; and catch up after the
transfer to home.

2. Volunteer at St Johan Hospital: I have volunteered some of the pre-professional

activities at St Johan Hospital like handling medication to the nurse rooms, keep a check
on the expiry dates of the medications mentioned in the prescription, be a part of
medication check procedure by bringing the medications from shelves and have it ready
for Pharmacist. However, I think that being a part of pre-professional activities would
help knowing the profession as a pharmacist. As a part of this program, it has helped me
improve my skill set as a professional pharmacist. My extracurricular activity will not
only help me to improve as an individual but will also help me become an easy going
personality. It will also help me to adapt to the new and more difficult situations. It will
give me an idea of initial training to manage time properly in the real practical world.
Below mentioned are some of the important achievement as a part of volunteering in
professional activities like:
 It will provide us a practical experience before the starting of the academic
sessions

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 The practical experience during the volunteering will help in decision making in
crucial situations.
 It will help in developing intellectual quests and hobbies outside or beyond the
school/college sessions.
 It will help in balancing the work with recreational activities while working under
the realistic situations as a pharmacist.
 It will help in understanding and learning experiences in indicating a commitment
to serve others.
 Watching a healthcare supplier in real life will offer some assistance with
gathering the data which I have to completely focus on the calling to pick and find
out around an assortment of medical fortes. This will help in easy understanding
of the practical complex situations easily.
 It provides an opportunity to interact with patients which in a way is a clear
indicator of future acceptance towards the patients’ diagnosis.

3. Member of Choir at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church:

I am a member of the Choir at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox C church. I have been involved in
various charity work and various fund raising activities on behalf of the church. We provide
presentations on various events like Christmas Eve or other functions and try to provide
presenting. As a pharmacist, I am sure these kinds of activities will:

 I will be able to promote health awareness among my community members.

 I will be able to contribute towards the betterment of the community as a whole by
guiding them through correct prescriptions and suitable medications when required.
 I will be able to advice patients about the safest and most effective way of treating
themselves.
 I will be able to advise public and other community members about the correct dosage
intake, appropriate selection of medicine, drug interactions of the medications.
 As a pharmacist I will also be able to help the community members to enhance their
knowledge regarding the in healing as well as potential side effects of the medicines.
 I will be able to provide the health care advice as well as support related to health
concerns of the community member.
 Being a part of the community may help in further avenues related to the pharmacy
entrepreneurship.
 I will be able to provide legal and ethical guidelines related to medical prescriptions.

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 It will help in conducting Medicine Use Reviews (MUR) to provide patients knowledge
about the working of a medicine and how the dosages are to be taken.
 It will help in selling over the counter medicines if needed.
 I will be able to help people with providing updated information about the medicines,
current pharmacy practices and their uses.
 It will help in guaranteeing that diverse medications are good
 Being a part of the active member of a community it is more accommodating in checking
measurements and guaranteeing that prescriptions are accurately and securely supplied
and marked (drug specialists are lawfully in charge of any apportioning mistakes)
 overseeing the planning of any solutions (not all are supplied instant up by the maker)
 It can be helpful in keeping a register of controlled medications for lawful and stock
control purposes working in a community will help in bringing people together with
healthy prospective and share knowledge in betterment of the life and health of the
community people.
 As a chore member of the community, I can be an ambassador for health and medication
related concerns of the other members.

Bibliography
American Pharmacist Association, viewed 7 Dec 2015, <http://www.pharmacist.com/apha-asp>.

Pharmacy Times 2011, viewed 7 Dec 2015, <http://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/why-i-love-

being-a-pharmacist-honorable-mentions>.