UCSF Pharmacy students were advised to get more involved in promoting and instituting the coming changes in pharmacy. Not only is this important for our future, but it affects us right now, since we are undergoing major changes in our curriculum. Students entering the 1998 school year will have clinical exposure in their first year of training. The first-year pharmacy students, will take courses in health care policy, reimbursement, and courses emphasizing research. As students we can effect change by being involved in real decision making.
Conferences have much to offer students as a forum for news gathering and disseminating.
So we encourage all students, pharmacy and otherwise, to go to any and all conferences. Sheikh Ahh, the great elective smorgasbord. As a first-year student, I was looking for something from amongst the latter category to help offset the steady diet of science classes awaiting me during the quarter. Judging from the title, I expected to be munching away as scenes from films like Coma flickered on the screen. Much to my surprise, by the end of the first session we were discussing medically pertinent matters such as how Walt Disney's portrayal of the U.S. malaria epidemic during the 1950s resembled society's conception of venereal disease.