BPSA Eastern Area Autumn Conference 2015 - Personalised Medicine

The first BPSA eastern area conference of the year was held at the University of Lincoln and focused on the topic of personalised medicine - a subject that is sure to affect pharmacy future practice!

Students received talks from 4 different guest speakers, each specialized in a different area of healthcare. 

Professor Munir Pirmohamed was the first speaker and opened the conference with a general talk on the importance of personalised medicine, the differences in human DNA and gave examples of circumstances when personalised medicine is important. 

Michelle Lam, the lead diabetes and endocrinology Pharmacist at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals, focused on different treatment options for diabetes and how the suitability differs from patient to patient, and why this is.

"I gained an insight into how personalised medicine impacts upon Pharmacists and the profession and how it may affect me in the future - a very positive day!"

Rachel Wild, 2nd year student

Professor Somnath Mukhopadyay focused on the role of personalised medicine in children’s asthma and allergies. He gave an example of the role of filaggrin in the skin and how its content may differ from child to child, resulting in the need for different treatment.


"Today really helped me put into perspective the way that pharmacy is going, it's heading towards a more patient centered future which can only be for the better. I really enjoyed the conference."

Emily Rose, 2nd year student

Nottingham students at the University of Lincoln

BPSA Workshop

Hi again! It's been a long while since we posted anything new. Last week, we conducted some workshops for our juniors from Year 1 and 2 in the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus! Every year, the BPSA reps in PharmSoc will conduct sessions with the junior years to talk about BPSA and also conduct workshops to help students on stuffs such as OSCEs and CV-writing. So here we are, doing our part for the students!

We explained to the students how the BPSA works, and also how the BPSA membership can benefit them. At this moment, Sean was explaining about the different regions of BPSA administration across the UK. Other things covered included the BPSA Professional Development Scheme (PDS), about Annual Conference and also access to resources such as PJ Online and CPPE learning tools.

Briefing with the Year 2 students. Apologies, we forgot to take pictures for the Year 1 sessions!

CV workshop as part of our time spent with the Year 2's. We learnt a lot from our experiences in the UK, hence we taught our juniors how to improve on their CV to make them stand out from other "average CVs".

Group activity during the workshops.

We're glad that students found the sessions informative and useful. Sad to say, this is our final assignment in our term as BPSA reps (sobs!). Having said that, we hope that this good work will be continued by the two newly-elected BPSA reps for the year 2015/2016: Dayana and Phang Sum!

Finally, we would like to express our gratitude for your support for BPSA and also to us throughout our term in office. It was a great year, and we hope you will continue to support BPSA, just as how it has supported us in our academic years.