#worldpharmacistday

Hi, I’m one of pharmacy students in ITB. Wait, ITB has Pharmacy? Yes. Fortunately it does :p

What we do?

We study many things related to drugs, diseases, clinical treatment, and its family. We learn how to make medicine so that it reaches the right target, how to create a drug design for kids, youth, and elderly so they can consume drug properly, which drugs for which diseases, what to do to make patient comfort over our counselling, how to make herbal drugs from plants, how to use instruments to check purity of active ingredients, how our body immune system works, so on and so on. All of them are to be integrated in order to improve public health so people can live longer. Just for giving a depiction that our work is important :p

For some students like me, studying pharmacy often stress us out. Some people assume that the study is almost the same like medical students, I would not say so though, but basically every university students have their own difficulty, right? I’m having a hard time in understanding organic chemistry and medicine analysis, but the main difficulty is integrating all the sciences and knowledge from all the classes we are having and we have had. To me, having a professor say “How you couldn’t answer such question? You’ve learned this in class x last semester” almost induce a heart attack. Lol. Yes, students are to integrate all the classes. Pharmacy students are to connect the dots of Human physiology to immunity to pathophysiology to pharmacology and so on. It is hard, but nothing like we can’t do it :)

Anyway. The sentences below do not really have things to do with the main point I concern about, but it may implicitly relate …wkwk just for having fun

Pharmacy students –im talking in ITB, mainly the clinical pharmacy- like taking notes. We would say “Wait sir! We’re not finished yet taking notes!” even though the professor already said “I’ll give you the presentation”, but quite a lot students will keep taking notes.

We tag chairs for our close friends. Whenever the class dismiss, we would shout “Tag in yak!” then the fastest one will have their pencil case, books, and bags, even a sheet of tissue on many tables. The stuffs they put on seem to say “don’t sit over here, its my friends’!” :p

We ‘shhutt’ people outside the class if they made noise. The ‘shhutt’ is not like what you might think, it’s pretty annoying because we do the ‘shhutt’ all together, you would want to listen. Haha

We have this cute book cover for our lab journal and report. We have strawberry cover, pink color cover, polkadot, dolls and bear. But well we also have batik cover and newspaper; these guys probably do not quite understand cuteness. Wkwk just kidding.

We love taking pictures. We take pictures in labs, class, streets, and everywhere. We love asking our lab assistant to take pictures with us especially after the labs done. We take picture of our first medicines, we arranged all the bottles and pills, we take pictures and upload them.

We shout happy to the assistants that give us good grade and frown for the not-good grade.

We make a line group to every work group assignments we have. We meet up directly to give part, we discuss the assignment on line afterward.

We volunteer for doing some public health events. We do blood drive; free health check up; pharmacy goes to village; medical team in lots of ITB events, probably.

We are broaden network to all pharmacist students and pharmacists through external activities, national and international

We join many competitions to improve our pharmacy skills, we win some, lose some

We do tutorials whenever the test come closer

We have these bundles as our study guide

We try to do every homework the professor gives

We study, we have fun, we care, we have fun, we're depressed, we have fun.

But yes. I bet all of us are curious how actually the real work field would look like. How we can even ‘talk’ to other health professionals? Though the interprofessional education has been aroused as a prior issue for years, but it still is an issue -.- if you know what I mean. How to manage Pharmacies, how to build pharmacies? What is needed? Will we actually make medicines with all the cool technologies? We compound and dispense in a lab scale, are we really gonna produce an enormous amount of drugs?? Are we gonna make a deal with doctors to use our product? Are we really gonna stay in the pharmacies for giving counselling? Are we gonna frequently check the illicit product and ban the counterfeit drugs? Are we gonna invent new drugs for untreated diseases? Will we make health policy? Will the drugs we make are just right? How to do the work??? Are we gonna go straight?

The idealism still probably tight us up, we dream of being a great pharmacist, we dream high. I want to be this and that. But sometimes we forget, have we done many good things? Have all the efforts enough to make us achieve all we want?

The depression we are through is not an indicator of how far we run and how deep we dig.

We haven’t done anything for public, we haven’t done anything to show our awareness to public health, we haven’t done anything to make our parents proud, we haven’t give any problem solving to what Indonesia undergoes, we just haven’t done anything. Let’s not be satisfied, yet.

Is it right what the professor said that the students quality fall down as new years come? Take our mirror.

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