Transcript PPS-Week 5 Presentation – Fall 2012PPTX

PRE-PHARMACY SOCIETY
GENERAL MEETING #5
Week 4 Recap
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UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy (Kesha Miller)
 Kesha
Miller – Office of Student Affairs and Admissions
 Fairly new school – only opened 10 years ago
 Need solid biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences
base to succeed
 The
more bio classes you take in your undergraduate career,
the more prepared you are
 100%
first pass rate on NAPLEX
Announcements
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PPS Families will be announced next week!
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PUSO’s Pre-Health Conference (Nov 15)
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For more information or last minute sign ups, please contact Josie
Vo at [email protected]
USC PharmSC Health Fair
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Sign up ASAP on clubs.uci.edu/pharmacy/membership
Saturday, November 10 in Alhambra
https://docs.google.com/a/usc.edu/spreadsheet/viewform?form
key=dHNDYlhSMUpHeWdZQXl3YU0telM3TXc6MQ#gid=0
Must sign up on the form above and with Josie
Week 5 Social – Blaze Pizza
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Spend Halloween bonding with your fellow
PPS members over delicious food!
PPS T-Shirt Design Contest
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Here’s your chance to design this year’s PPS Shirt!
Criteria:
 Include
“Pre-Pharmacy Society at UCI 2012-2013”
and our slogan “Dispensing Knowledge”
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Winner will receive a free dinner with the board!
Please email the design to [email protected]
Drug of the Week
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Brand: Propecia
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Generic: Finasteride 1mg
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Usage: treat male pattern hair loss
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Class of Medication: 5-alpha reductase inhibitors
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Side Effects: Decreased sexual desire, abnormal sexual function,
depression (2010), and more.
Fact: X labeling!
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Known to cause birth defects in fetus
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No handling of broken tablets (has special coating)
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May or are pregnant should avoid
Things I Wish I Knew as a Freshman
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Ippo Sushi
 Delivery
Only (6pm-2am)
 Online Checkout
 To satisfy that late night study session sushi craving!
 www.ipposushi.com
Dr. Hung Du, PharmD
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Attended UCI (1991-1994)
Graduated from USC Pharm D. Program in 1998
Master of Sciences in Pharmaceutical Economics and
Policy and graduated in 2000
Currently works as manager in an independent
pharmacy