Hello dear pharmacy students,

We hope the new semester is starting off well for you!

The Medical Society & Healthcare Expeditions are glad to bring to you ActivAid 2010!

Activaid 2010 is a full day humanitarian affairs conference on the 4th Sept 2010 (Saturday) that will see an assortment of inspiring healthcare professionals with great experience in the humanitarian work conduct workshops and lectures which will provide useful tips on how to get your overseas humanitarian trip up and going. It will be held at LT 28 in Science Faculty at NUS Kent Ridge as well as at a variety of seminar rooms. Some of the speakers who will be coming are Mr Jack Sim, Dr Tan Chi Chiu, Dr John Lee & doctors and staff from SingHealth Humanitarian Relief Programme, Mercy Relief, Red Cross, just to name a few.

The theme of this conference is “Sustainability Issues Facing Student Volunteers”. There will be workshops and discussions revolving around issues like organisational planning, execution of projects and sharing of personal experiences by student project leaders. You can elect for a total of 3 out of 15 workshops available to give you unprecedented breadth into this topic. This conference will also provide an excellent opportunity to network with like-minded & actively involved healthcare professionals, organisations & students from the QuintFac i.e. Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Faculty of Dentistry, School of Pharmacy & Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

This website provides details on how to register as well as more information on the speakers. Registration will open from the 12th-21st August 2010.

A small one-time $5 registration fee will be required that can be paid on the day itself. We are preparing sumptuous lunch & tea breaks which will provide an excellent opportunity to discuss your ideas with like-minded conference participants and speakers as well as to spend time at the many booths laid out that will be exhibiting various projects. It will be a good opportunity to see how you can help out.

On a separate note, we need student volunteers to help facilitate workshops and talks. If you are interested to do so, please note that you will not have to pay any registration fees and you should be able to experience the bulk of the conference as any participant would as we are very flexible regarding your allocation of duties. Please let us know if you wish to volunteer to help us run the event.

This event is proudly supported by Asian Medical Foundation, StandsBuilder, National University Health System & Medical Education Unit of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Should you have any enquiries, kindly direct them to activaid2010@gmail.com. Thanks!

Best regards,
Abhiram
On behalf of the ActivAid 2010 Organising Committee
Academic Affairs Director
61st Medical Society EXCO
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

HP: (+65) 9067 6920
E-Mail: abhiramkanneganti@gmail.com

The Academic Directorate | Medical Society
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine | National University of Singapore
1E Kent Ridge Road | NUHS Tower Block, Level 11 | Singapore 119228
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Dear Pharmily,

Now that the new academic year has started, let us welcome the new batch of Pharmacy freshmen into the Pharmily. Prior to the official start of school, most of the freshmen participated enthusiastically in our orientation camps, namely Pharmacy Freshmen Orientation Camp 2010 – RescapeX and Pharmacy Freshmen Orientation Week 2010. These fun-filled camps were well-received among the freshmen, who managed to forge new friendships among themselves, as well as the seniors.

The NUSPS Pharmacy FOC/FOW Committee 2010 is really honoured to be given the privilege to organize Pharmacy FOC 2010 ? RescapeX and Pharmacy Freshmen Orientation Week 2010. The success of these orientation camps was made possible not just solely due to the committee?s commitment and capabilities but also the utmost support and participation from the professors, staff of Pharmacy Department, NUSPS, seniors and freshmen. As such, we would like to thank all of you who have contributed to the success of these orientation camps.

Lastly, we strongly encourage freshmen to step up and volunteer yourselves to organize next year?s FOC and FOW. Interested freshmen who are keen in becoming the Project Director for next year?s FOC and FOW, do contact either the NUSPS President (Edwin Tan) or the PD for FOC/FOW 2010 (Gwee Yong Sheng).

Once again, we thank you all.

Warmest regards,
NUSPS FOC/FOW Committee 2010

Dear Pharmers,

The Organising Committee for the Perm Sec(Health) Talk on the 31st August is requesting for volunteers among the 5 different medical faculties to be ushers for the event.

As such, if anyone of you out there is interested in helping out in this event, pls feel free to contact Ms Ong Hui Shan at ong.huishan@hotmail.com. Thank you!

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Warmest regards,
Tan Wei Zhe Edwin
President
49th Executive Committee
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

Dear Pharmily,

Now that Rag 2010 has come to a closure, the NUSPS Rag Committee 2010 would like to take this opportunity to thank the professors, seniors, freshies, batch mates and all other persons who have helped out in Rag in one way or another.

Thank you all for being such good mentors, advisors, encouragers and helpers. We are really grateful for all the assistance that had been rendered, from the invaluable advice to all the manual labor provided.

We thank you for sharing this whole journey with us, from non-competing to competing, from having a fat and friendly dragon to a fierce and majestic one. Although we didn?t win awards this year, rest assured that we will come back next year even stronger and better and will, one day, do Pharmacy proud.

Once again, a great big thank you from the depths of our hearts to one and all for all the help and for showing the Pharmily spirit.

With much appreciation and love,
NUSPS Rag Committee 2010

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Edit from the Media Resource Team:
If you missed the performance or would like to reminiscence about the epic event that was RAG, check out our Facebook page for the official photos! We will be adding more to them soon, as well as the video of our presentation.

Hi everyone!

The secondhand textbooks sales by NUSPS Welfare is here!
If you have any textbooks you would like to sell do take note.

For those who would like to SELL their textbooks, please email me at nusps.welfare@gmail.com

Details to be included in the email:

Name:
Contact no.:
Year of study:
Matriculation number:

Title of textbook 1:
Edition:
Price to be sold at:
Condition of the textbook:

Title of textbook 2:
Edition:
Price to be sold at:
Condition of the textbook:

Do take a picture of the textbook so I can see the condition.

The above details are to be included and in the above format before the email is sent to the email address stated above.

All fields are compulsory before the textbook can be put up for sale.
Collection of textbook sale details will close on Tuesday 17th Aug 2010 6pm.

For buyers:

A list of the textbooks on sale would be up and sent to all yahoo groups by Thursday 19th Aug 2010 Morning 10am. The textbooks are sold on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Indicate the index no. of the textbook that you would like to
purchase. You can fill in more than one index no. for the same
textbook title if you do not mind the higher price.

Details are to be included in the email as follows to the following
email address: nusps.welfare@gmail.com

Name:
Matriculation number:
Contact no.:

Textbook title 1:
Edition:
Index no(s):

Textbook title 2:
Edition:
Index no(s):

All fields are compulsory. Any field missing and the email would be void.

Once the transaction is confirmed, I would email you ASAP. If the textbook has been sold and no other is available, an email would also be sent to you.

The sale of textbooks would be closed on Tuesday 24th Aug 6pm. I would email successful buyers and sellers with regards to the passing over of the textbooks

Dead buyers/sellers would have to pay a fine of $1 to the NUSPS Welfare. So do take note!

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Liew Xin Yi Cindy
Welfare Director
49th Executive Committee
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

Hi all freshmen,

The Matriculation Pack will be ready for collection on the following Tuesday, 17 August, from 12-2pm, at the PS Room. The pack will contain your labcoat, the NUSPS polo tee and some vouchers.

In addition, those who have not collected their goodie bags for Freshmen Orientation Week may do so during the same timeslot. Seniors are also welcome to collect the goodie bags!

Regards,
Freshmen Orientation 2010 Committee

Dear Pharmers,

NUSPS will be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting this coming Wed (11/8) at 12pm at LT 20.

The purpose of this meeting is to pass the proposal and standing orders of a Online Voting process to replace the current voting which we conduct every year during the Annual General Meeting. We will also be discussing other constitution changes to be made in this meeting as well. After passing the proposal, we will then be able to implement this voting process immediately to the selection of the incoming NUSPS Executive Committee this year.

This is an important milestone in NUSPS as we are trying to incorporate the use of online resources to help with our voting process. We feel that by making the voting process more convenient to the society members, we will be able to get a more representative voice of the entire society in deciding the next NUSPS Executive Committee.

However, we need to have a quorum of at least 40 people before we can commence this meeting. Hence, I would urge all of you who are interested in witnessing this defining moment in NUSPS history to make time for this meeting on this Wednesday and decide if we should go on with this proposal. I will announce the venue of this meeting by tomorrow. There will be a lunch reception after the meeting. Do come down for this meeting and voice out your opinions about the proposed system!

Thank you!
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Warmest regards,
Tan Wei Zhe Edwin
President
49th Executive Committee
NUS Pharmaceutical Society

Dear Pharmers!

Welcome back to a brand new semester! But before we begin our routine of cramping for mid-terms and exams, let’s kickstart this semester with Young Alumni Sharing Session 2010! We have invited pharmacists from various sectors of practice to come back and share their experiences with us, including hospital, industrial, regulatory and more!! It would be an opportunity to gain greater insight into the job scopes of the different pharmaceutical sectors and the challenges faced by pharmacists in their daily work. So do come down and join us in this event and we hope it would be enriching to you in your subsequent years as a pharmacy student and a pharmacist!

Date: 14/08/2010 Saturday
Time: 9:30 to 1:30pm (lunch provided)
Place: NUS LT 24
Attire: Smart Casual

Do reply to to RSVP to?academic.nusps@gmail.com by 11th August 2010!
(It would help greatly in the catering of lunch.)

Warmest Regards,
NUSPS Academic Committee 2010

The Flag Committee would like to thank the following sponsors and donors who have made Flag 2010 a success. We have raised more than $20,000 in donations! We would like to extend our thanks to all the companies, organisations and individuals who have supported us in one way or another, including every member of the Pharmily who were out there flagging!

In particular, we would like to acknowledge the contributions of these donors and companies:

Gaylin Int’l Pte Ltd – S$ 3000.00
Hua Siah Construction Pte Ltd – S$ 1000.00
Asst Prof Wee Hwee Lin – S$ 200.00
A/Prof Chui Wai Keung – S$ 200.00
Asst Prof Ho Han Kiat – S$ 100.00
A/Prof Yu Chun Kong, Victor – S$ 100.00
Asst Prof Chan Chun Yong, Eric – S$ 50.00
A/Prof Koh Hwee Ling – S$ 50.00
Ms. Loh Zi Hui – S$ 50.00
Dr Kang Li Feng – S$ 50.00
Asst Prof Chiu Ngar Chee, Gigi – S$ 50.00
Prof Chen Yu Zong – S$ 50.00

We would also like to thank A/Prof Chan Sui Yung for contributing coins weighting 2kg in total, as well as A & M Engineering Pte Ltd for sponsoring a lorry and a driver for the transportation of logistics.

A summary of Pharmacy Flag 2010, including its background, aims & objectives, strategies adopted, and outcomes is available here:

Once again, thank you to all for making Flag a success! We look forward to seeing you at next year’s Flag!

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The Media Resource Team
On behalf of Kwan Yu Heng, Project Director (Flag), and the Flag Committee

Dear Pharmers,

As we are going in to the last day of preparation for Rag, I am appealing to all Pharmacy seniors to come down and help out with doing the float for tomorrow. The float still has a lot of touch-up to be done and as all work will have to stop by 10pm tomorrow, there’s not a lot of time left for the Rag Comm to work with. Get your friends to come down to the tentage and work on the float together for one last day!

Together, I believe that Pharmacy can achieve a lot as cohesive unit and hopefully win an award in this year’s Rag! Here’s a big THANK YOU in advance!

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Warmest regards,
Tan Wei Zhe Edwin
President
49th Executive Committee
NUS Pharmaceutical Society