UNAIR NEWS“ 51¶¯Âþ is expanding its wings to achieve the target to be among Top 500 World Universities.On Friday, August 17, three UNAIR delegates from Faculty of Pharmacy (FF) managed to win in three categories at Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium (APPS) event at Showa University, Fujiyoshida, Japan.
APPS is an annual event organized by the Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO).APRO is a part of IPSF in charge of implementing all IPSF programs in the Asia Pacific region.APPS is aimed to provide opportunities for Asia Pacific regional pharmacy students to interact and share knowledge about the development and education of pharmaceutical science.
Tri Wahyudi, 2017 student of FF was one of the delegates of UNAIR with two other students.They are Wildhani Alfianna, class 2015 and Wanda Brilianty, class 2017. “From the competition we managed to win in three categories,” he said.
From several categories, UNAIR delegation won Most Favorite Poster in APPS 2018 Pharmaceutical Poster Competition.In addition, they also won 1st place of Advance Patient Counseling Event and 1stplace of Clinical Skill Event Jeopardy, both of which were won by Wildhani Alfanna.
The 17th APPS event was attended by 370 pharmacy students throughout Asia Pacific.The participants were treated to a variety of events such as educational symposiums,workshops,fieldtrips,publichealthawarenesscampaign, themedsocialevents, andcompetition.
“The composition includes cinical events, patient counseling events, industrial case competitions, and pharmaceutical poster competitions,” he added.
Regarding the poster competition, Tri claimed that he did not expect to win because out of the 14 finalists, his team was the only one whose research did not require laboratory experiments.His team was the only one which discussed about public health and community pharmacy.
“The other teams use topics that are based on research for the discovery of new drugs and materials that have the potential to be used as drugs,” he added.
Tri admitted that he was very happy to be able to gain reputation for the alma mater in the international arena.Moreover, UNAIR delegation was the delegation that makes most achievements in APPS 2018. The poster from UNAIR was deemed attractive by the judges and received much appreciation untilthe other delegations asked for the soft copy.(*)
Author: M. Najib Rahman
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
