APHA-IPSF Chapter Meeting
Speaker
Ms. Sara Salem (9-9-2013)
As the APHA-IPSF Coordinator at the University of Iowa College of
Pharmacy, my role is to inform and engage students in all things related to
international pharmacy and international health. Over the past summer I was able to arrange
for pharmacist Sara Salem to come speak to students about pharmacy in the
United Kingdom. Ms. Salem spoke this
week to an auditorium filled to capacity about her experience of working as a
pharmacist in the United Kingdom and the lengthy process she went through to
practice in the United States. It was
great to listen to her presentation because I was able to relate and understand
several of her experiences from having spent a few weeks this past summer
learning about pharmacy in the UK. She
introduced the students to the retail chain she worked at, Boots, which is
similar to Walgreens and also spoke to students about the General
Pharmaceutical Council and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, where I spent most
of my time in the UK. She also compared
and contrasted her role working in a hospital both in the US and the UK and
introduced students to the National Health Service in the UK. It was great to see the event come together
after all the planning over the past few months and I hope the other students
enjoyed and learned from it as much as I did.
Looking forward to doing more great things for APHA-IPSF this year!
