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Six International Students Visit Boston Through IPSF Program

Six international students are visiting MCPHS-Boston this summer as part of the International Pharmaceutical Students Federation (IPSF) Student Exchange Programme. Throughout the month of June, students Seth Asamoah (Ghana), AnnaKartberg (Sweden), Viljami Hanhenoja (Finland), Laura Salmelainen (Finland), Pit Wei Ng (Singapore), and Lisa Liew (Singapore) will rotate between a variety of practice sites and professional experiences. During the four-week program, students will spend one week each in a mixture of community, hospital and pharmaceutical science practice settings in order to receive a broad understanding of pharmacy in the United States.

Many MCPHS faculty are serving as preceptors to these international visitors including Tim Maher, Eman Atef, Monica Chuong, Anela Stanic, Tulip Schneider,Susan Drea, Erika Felix-Getzik, Laurie Schmitt, and Lisa McDevitt. McDevitt and pharmacy student Anna Beryozkina work together to coordinate IPSF activities at MCPHS. Non-faculty preceptors include pharmacists at Walgreens and Bioscrip Pharmacies, as well as Tufts Medical Center. Several MCPHS-Boston students will also be visiting other countries this summer as part of the exchange: Donny Van will travel to Taiwan, Arianna Sara Farhodi will travel to Turkey,and Pavel Lavitas will travel to Hungary. The International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation was founded in 1949 by eight pharmacy student associations in London.The Federation now represents around 350,000 pharmacy students and recent graduates in 70 countries worldwide. IPSF initiatives focus mainly on the areas of public health and pharmacy education.

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