Summer Training
Summer training is aiming to provide students opportunities to practice and work in community pharmacies, hospital clinical pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. Summer training extends student’s learning beyond the classroom into the community and real life experience. Students will learn to transform the role of the pharmacist from a product-oriented to patient-centered practitioners and be able to face the challenge of complex drug therapy needs of patients. Summer training enhances students to become well-prepared and sustainable pharmacists as professional health care practitioners after graduation.
Summer Field Training provides pharmacy students sustainable pharmacy practice in various pharmacy careers.
Summer Field Training provides high qualified training fields for pharmacy students to gain real experience in pharmacy practice and enhances community participation.
Summer field training in Faculty of Pharmacy is required in two summers after the Junior and Mid-senior studies with a total of 360 hours (awarded 12 CR). Junior field training is the pre-requisite training for mid-senior field training in which juniors involve only the community pharmacy training, while mid-seniors expand the training fields to hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and medical representatives in addition to the community pharmacies. The final result is shown as NP (Non-grade pass) or NF (Non-grade fail). All students pass the required field training are given certificates by the Faculty. All training records are retrievable in the electronic database.
Q: Can I start the summer training after the sophomore year?
A: Summer training is a prerequisite for graduation. The training starts after the third year during the summer vacation. The student has to practice training in a variety of pharmaceutical disciplines approved by the faculty, with a total of 360 training hours, thus granted 12 credit hours. The student will do 180 training hours after the third year and another180 hours after the fourth year. These should include community pharmacies, hospitals, clinical rounds, pharmaceutical industry, and other pharmaceutical organizations. Such training provides the students with experience in drug therapy and its monitoring process, determining dosage forms, preparing appropriate medication and counseling patients in rational drug usage. The student’s performance is evaluated at the end of the training period by the institution that provides training. This is held under the supervision of the faculty of Pharmacy and Drug Manufacturing.
Q: What shall I do in the third-year training?
A: The third -year training includes 3 categories which are:
(a) in-house pharmacy training
(b) pharmacovigilance workshop
(c) community pharmacy training
Q: What shall I do in the junior year training?
A: The junior training focuses on specialized pharmacy training which includes 3 categories which are:
(a) hospital clinical pharmacy training
(b) industrial pharmacy training
(c) community pharmacy training
Q: Does the faculty provide training opportunities in community pharmacies for students?
A: The faculty provides the students with all training venues except the community pharmacies. Accordingly, the student should find a suitable pharmacy by himself/herself for training in accordance with the faculty regulations.
Q. How can I find a hospital or a pharmaceutical company for training?
A: The faculty will provide the students with training opportunities in hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. However, students can only register for one hospital and one pharmaceutical company. Hospital training is obligatory for all students meanwhile industrial training is optional.
Q: How is the third-year training evaluated?
A: In-house pharmacy training is evaluated by all departments in the faculty through power point presentations and case discussions. Pharmacovigilance training is evaluated by doing group assignments. Community pharmacy training is evaluated by faculty members in face-to-face interviews, assignments, booklets and post-training tests. One faculty member will be assigned for each student for supervision during the summer training.
Q: How is junior year training evaluated?
A: Clinical pharmacy training in hospitals is evaluated by the hospital preceptors who assess the student’s performance in the hospital and the faculty academic staff who assess the student through the power point presentation he/she makes and the case discussions they got engaged in. Industrial training is evaluated by the faculty staff face-to-face, booklet and post-test. Community pharmacy training is evaluated by the faculty supervisors in face-to-face interviews, booklets and post-training tests. One faculty member will be assigned for each student for supervision during the summer training.
Q: Do I get a certificate after completion of summer training?
A: Yes. Your summer training details are recorded in a Smart database created by the faculty IDS Unit. You can keep a copy of this summer training datasheet. It is worth mentioning that the faculty provides you a summer training certificate after completing all the training requirements.
Junior Summer Training
Junior summer training includes 3 categories of training fields, in-house pharmacy training, community pharmacy training, and pharmacovigilance workshop.
- In-house Pharmacy training
The aim of In-house pharmacy training is to prepare student to be familiar with commonly encountered cases in the community pharmacy. It is supervised by all departments in the Faculty. The training evaluation included drug information assignments, case discussion, presentation and role play. It takes place at the PUA mock pharmacy and Faculty library.
- Pharmacovigilance Workshop
The aim of pharmacovigilance training is to introduce students the importance of effective drug monitoring systems for all medicines. The workshop is instructed by the staffs from Egyptian Pharmacovigilance Center in Alexandria (PVC). Students work on various assignment topics, including storytelling, graphical design, video, and flyer/brochure. Students are also scheduled to visit PVC-Alexandria center.
- Community Pharmacy Training
The aim of community pharmacy training is to apply knowledge and skills in daily pharmacy practice as primary care professional. Each student is assigned to a faculty member as a summer training supervisor. Students are required to bring the training booklets during the practice. Supervisors are responsible to make sure that student’s training is taking place and report to the committee with a set of standard to follow. Students are evaluated by the preceptors in the pharmacy and faculty supervisors according to standard evaluation rubrics. Students also require passing training post-test.
MIDSENIOR SUMMER TRAINING
Midsenior summer training includes 4 categories of training fields, community pharmacy training, hospital pharmacy training, industrial training, and courses offered in PUA CEDC center.
- ORIENTATION
All midsenior students attend a summer training orientation week before starting the summer training. Speakers from various training fields including hospital, community pharmacy and pharmaceutical companies are invited to share insights of their training programs and regulations that students should follow at the training sites.
- COMMUNITY PHARMACY TRAINING
The aim of community pharmacy training is to apply knowledge and skills in daily pharmacy practice as primary care professional. Each student is assigned a faculty member as a summer training supervisor. Students are required to bring the training booklets during the practice. Supervisors are responsible to make sure that student’s training is taking place and report to the committee with a set of standard to follow. Students are evaluated by the preceptors in the pharmacy and faculty supervisors according to standard evaluation rubrics. Students also require passing training post-test.
- HOSPITAL PHARMACY TRAINING
The aim of hospital pharmacy training is to place students in clinical pharmacy settings for 60 hours including ICU, TPN Unit, Oncology, Nephrology and Inpatient & Outpatient pharmacy to obtain first-hand professional clinical experiences. In 2018, the Faculty has contracted 5 hospitals located in Alexandria.
- Armed Force Mostafa Kamel Hospital
- Alexandria University Hospital
- RasEltin Navy Hospital
- Ministry of Health Hospitals
- AlSalama Hospital
Students are evaluated by the preceptors in the hospitals and give power point presentation based on the knowledge gained from the training which is supervised by summer training committee.
VISION
Pharmacy students are equipped with sufficient professionalism and competence to serve the community.
MISSION
Pharmacy students practice proper dispensing, compounding, prescription handling, patient counseling, and administrative tasks in community pharmacies.
GOALS
- Link curricular background, relevant to medications, to current practice.
- Form a link between theoretical curricula studied, regarding different pharmaceutical dosage forms and their hands-on identification in the Egyptian market.
- Guide students to proper patient counseling.
- Train students on essential tasks relevant to computer software.
- Engage supervising role of the preceptor in the community pharmacy.
VISION
All pharmacy students should become highly qualified and competent hospital pharmacists.
MISSION
Pharmacy students practice in various hospital pharmacy settings focusing on clinical pharmacy training.
GOALS
1.1. Practice in general hospitals/ health units and specialty hospitals.
1.2. Practice in oncology hospitals.
1.3. Practice in drug information centers.
1.4. Practice in private hospitals.
VISION
Pharmacy students will become highly qualified and competent industrial pharmacists.
MISSION
Pharmacy students practice in various pharmaceutical industry sectors, including Registration, Research and development, Production, Quality Control, Quality assurance and Marketing.
GOALS
1.1. Practice in pharmaceutical industry
1.2. Practice as medical representatives
1.3. Improve sales and marketing skills
Medical Rep Training
The Pharmaceutical industry is considered to be one of the most important industries all over the world due to its strong link between the industry, physicians and patients. Medical Representative is the most visible person in pharmaceutical marketing. The training empowers students with the skills that will enable them to face the challenges in the pharmaceutical market and.provides students opportunities to explore the sales and marketing for various pharmaceutical products from different companies, including Sanofi Aventis,Tabuk, AstraZenaca, Pfizer, Bayer and Apex.
Pharmacovigilance Workshop
The pharmacovigilance workshop is aiming at spreading the culture of drug alertness among the students with the beginning of their summer training in the private pharmacies and training on how to report and evaluate the side effects of drugs. The workshop is given by pharmacovigilance specialists in Egyptian Pharmacovigilance Center – Alexandria. Students should complete lectures, assignments and filling yellow cards for ADR reporting. The best assignment groups are selected to visit Pharmacovigilance center for further practice at site.
Pharmacy Cup Competition
The aim of the competition is to reinforce community pharmacy practice in a simulating manner. Students gain experiences by using cases encountered daily in a real pharmacy through competition by groups representing different local community pharmacies. All the student actors/actresses and inspectors fill evaluation rubric sheets immediately after each case and participating students are given feedback immediately after each act to benefit from the appropriate response for that particulate case. Discussion sessions between the faculty staffs, evaluators and students are done at the end of each day. The winner team is awarded a Pharmacy Cup by the Dean, Prof. Dr. Maged El Ghazouly.
Mini Workshop
The mini workshop provides pharmacy students a practice-based activity which is supporting the taught courses. Students have to complete a 4-station round in one hour duration. This workshop is designed to allow students to practice hands-on the materials.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
- Demonstrate appropriate techniques of individual capsule filling in the compounding pharmacy
- Prepare drugs for intramuscular (IM) and subcutaneous (SC) administration
- Use Pharmacruise program for inventory management
- Learn how to measure blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer
CEDC COURSES
All midsenior students are required to enroll general courses offered by PUA Carrier Development and Entrepreneurship Center (CDEC) from the following course list to enhance student’s sustainable skills and empower student’s career development and entrepreneurship.
• entrepreneurship
• leadership
• interpersonal communication
• time management
• interview skills
• cv writing
• team building
SUMMER TRAINNIG ORIENTATION
All midsenior students attend a summer training orientation week before starting the summer training. Speakers from various training fields including hospital, community pharmacy and pharmaceutical companies are invited to share insights of their training programs and regulations that students should follow at the training sites.
