UBC Pharmacy Undergraduate Society (PhUS)

🚴‍♀️Free Monthly Spin Classes - Student Interest Survey 🚴

Please fill out this quick 2-question survey to help us gather supporting data for the grant proposal:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0JSejzWKF8JkTZQ
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💡What: Spin classes led by trained and experienced instructors
💡Where: Spin Society in Mt. Pleasant (15-20 min drive from UBC)
💡When: Once per month year-round
💡Who: All experience levels welcome; resistance can be adjusted
💡Capacity: 50 riders per session

Faculty and PhUS are collaborating on a joint-grant proposal for the Pharmaceutical Sciences Strategic Plan Catalyst for Change 2.0 Implementation Investment Fund 2023-26. Through this grant, we hope to fund monthly group spin classes that would be open and free for all students (E2P PharmD, BPSc, MSc, PhD), faculty, and staff.

The intention of this project is to provide an informal setting for Faculty, staff, and students to form meaningful connections outside of the academic setting in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Building as well as promote health and wellness.
Thank you!

As we are fast approaching the end of term 2, here is the timeline for the PhUS execs election 2023/2024:

🌟Black Pharmacy Students' Conference🌟

Black Pharmacy Students' Conference is a national gathering to connect Black Pharmacy Students across Canada with their peers. This event is on February 21st @ 5:00 pm MST | 7:00 pm EST | 4:00 pm PST. We will feature the current presidents of the two Black Pharmacy Students Associations (BPSA) in Canada, a couple of excellent speakers, fun games, and prizes to win. Get ready for an evening of celebration of Black joy, and feel free to bring snacks and wine for a fun virtual night together.

Link to register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/black-pharmacy-students-conference-a-canadian-national-gathering-tickets-528011154577

The elections for Faculty specific student representatives to the UBC Vancouver Senate are now OPEN! The applications are being accepted until 4 pm on February 10, 2023. As a student senate representative, you represent ALL of the students in your faculty and their voices on the UBC Vancouver Senate. In this position, you participate in monthly meetings generally on the second Wednesday of every month and vote on topics such as policy making, program approvals, academic agenda, awards approvals etc. You are also a part of the student caucus which meets twice a month during the same week as the senate meeting. This is an immensely supportive group and a great way to meet undergraduate students in other faculties! 🙂

As a senator, you are given the opportunity to sit on a minimum of two committees such as Appeals for academic standing, Awards, Research and Scholarship, Tributes etc. Each of these committees sets its own meetings and usually meets once a month. These provide great opportunities for networking with faculty senate members and give you an opportunity to understand how each committee works.

If you would like to make a difference at the core of policy-making at the university, then this position is for you!

If you have any other questions please feel free to reach out to Kanika Khosla via Facebook!

To apply, see:https://www.ams.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-Vancouver-Student-Representative-of-a-Faculty-to-the-Senate-Nomination-Form-1.pdf

🌟Attn: Healthcare Students & Recent Graduates - Join us for the 2023 Healthcare Travelling Roadshow!🌟

The Healthcare Travelling Roadshow is seeking healthcare students and recent graduates to help recruit the next generation of rural healthcare professionals.

Travel with a multidisciplinary group of students and grads to showcase health career options to rural high school students. And explore rural B.C. and engage with local community stakeholders and healthcare professionals.

Join us for one of three exciting Roadshow trips in 2023:

April 30 - May 6: Haida Gwaii Roadshow (Haida Gwaii, Prince Rupert)
May 1 - 6: Thompson Roadshow (Lillooet, Ashcroft, Chase)
May 14 - 20: Cariboo Roadshow (Bella Coola, 100 Mile House, Williams Lake, Quesnel)
If you are interested in participating in one of the 2023 roadshows, please submit your online application by March 1, 2023 -- Apply here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b2G3DYGymPpNqvA

**All travel, accommodation, and meal expenses are covered for participants.

The Healthcare Travelling Roadshow was conceived as a grass roots initiative to address rural healthcare workforce shortages. The provincial initiative has grown to include several regional trips. Since its inception in 2010, the roadshow has connected with more than 12,000 high school students in 68 communities throughout BC. The Roadshow is delivered in partnership with the University of Northern British Columbia, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Northern Medical Programs Trust, and the Rural Education Action Plan.

Learn more!

Website: https://www2.unbc.ca/healthcare-travelling-roadshow
Check out a video from one of our past trips: https://www2.unbc.ca/healthcare-travelling-roadshow/roadshow-media

Roadshow Media To learn more about the Healthcare Travelling Roadshow and its impact in rural communities around B.C., please check out the following videos and news articles! Videos 2018: Roadshow - Cassiar and Fort Nelson regions 2017: Roadshow - Kootenay region

Shared on behalf of Vancouver Warriors:

🎈UBC x Vancouver Warriors🎈

The Vancouver Warriors are excited to invite all UBC Students + your family and friends to College Night! Use this link for access to our special Group Rate of $25 and to sit with your fellow UBC Students!

On January 14th, the Vancouver Warriors are hosting College Night at Rogers Arena. There will be food and drink specials such as $5.99 beers all night long, giveaways for students, a pre-game pub crawl, and a dedicated section for UBC! This night is truly based around the student.

Everyone is encouraged to wear their school gear and represent UBC loud and proud!

Please Reach out to [email protected] for any questions or if you would like to purchase group tickets together in the UBC Section.

We have tickets starting at $25, here is a generic link for UBC :

UBC Special Offer - College Night @ Vancouver Warriors

Posting on behalf of alumni council:

Join the Student Alumni Council!

We are seeking passionate student leaders to join the Student Alumni Council (SAC), an incredible team of students dedicated to connecting students with alumni and building lifelong connections with the UBC community. This is a great opportunity to develop leadership skills and expand your professional networks, both within the UBC community and beyond. The SAC is supported by alumni UBC. Apply by 11:59 PM PST on January 31, 2023.

Apply here:

Application - alumni UBC Join the UBC Student Alumni Council! The Student Alumni Council (SAC) is a student leadership program supported by alumni UBC. SAC members are students dedicated to connecting students with alumni and building lifelong connections with the UBC community. We are seeking a diverse group of talented, e...

September 30th marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Today honours the children who never returned home and the survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.

As a vital component of the reconciliation process, please take time to commemorate the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools.

To learn more, check out: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/national-day-truth-reconciliation.html

🥁🥁🥁DRUM ROLL PLS🥁🥁🥁
Thank you all candidates and voters for participating in this year's election.

congratulations to our newly elected year representatives!

Year 1 Representatives:
- David Wang
- Jason Jeong
- Meghan MacLaren

Year 2 Representatives:
- Maric Son
- Ronak Amir Sardari
- Ruishen Yu

Year 3 Representatives:
- Niharika Ghura
- Seong-Hoon Jung
- Vivak Maingi

The results are out! Thank you all candidates and voters for participating in this year's election and congratulations to our newly elected year representatives!

Year 1 Representatives: Alecz Reyes, Ronak Sardari & Thazin Maung
Year 2 Representatives: Isabella Woroshelo, Hajer Mahmood & Alyssa Azote
Year 3 Representatives: Alicia Klaassen, Zyrel Zaparilla & Mariam Mouhajer

Election results are here! Congratulations to our newly elected council members.

VP Communications: Marcus Lo
Class of 2023 Grad Representative: Maddison Gahagan
Class of 2022 Fourth Year Representatives: John Lee and Parsa Amin

Presenting our final fur-macist winner of the year! (not sponsored by any particular coffee chain)

Name: Timbit

"Hello Pharmily! Meet my nephew Timbit! He is a golden British shorthair boy born on September 14, 2020. He is often found distracting my sister and I from doing work, trying to drink out of his Mom’s Tim Horton’s coffee or is often found getting up to mischief."

Submitted by: Andrea (PY2)

Thank you to everyone who submitted their pet photos for our weekly fur-macists content! If your pet was a winner, keep an eye out as it might be featured in this year's Yearbook! We hope that our weekly posts made your Wednesdays a little bit more bright.

Best of luck on ICE exams and with practicums,

Your Pharmacy Undergraduate Society

Voting for 4th Year Representatives, Class of 2023 Grad Representatives, and VP Communications is now open! Log onto https://amsvoting.as.it.ubc.ca/ to cast your ballot. It will be open until April 7, 2021.

You can learn more about this year's candidates by visiting our website: https://ubcphus.org/2021-elections/.

All inquiries regarding this election should be directed to Jeremy, Marcus, and Grace.

Best of luck to all of the outstanding nominees this year!

Congratulations to our new Executive council for 2021-2022!

President: Jeremy Bulatao
VP Internal: Marcus Wong
VP External: Grace Li
VP Academic: Lilyan Jia
VP Finance: Chris Xi
VP Social: Felisha Teja

The vote for VP Communications resulted in a tie. A runoff election shall be held next week, from April 5th @ 00:00 to April 7th @ 23:59.

Here is this week's fur-macist winner!

Name: Jojo

"Jojo is a 13 year old obese chicken who enjoys bathing in his water dish and foraging for snackies. He came from a parrot rescue society and we'll likely be stuck with each other for another 30-40 years or so

Here is this week's Fur-macist winner!

Name: Ollie the Maltese-Yorkie

"“Ollie had the Zoomies before quarantine”

Submitted by: Giordano Bua (Year 3)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

Voting for the PhUS Executive Council elections is now open! Log onto https://amsvoting.as.it.ubc.ca/ to cast your ballot.

You can learn more about this year's candidates by visiting our website: https://ubcphus.org/2021-elections/.

All inquiries regarding this election should be directed to [email protected].

Best of luck to all of the outstanding nominees this year!

Happy Wednesday! Here is this week's Fur-macist winner.

Name: Lily

"Lily is a border collie rescue from northern Alberta who fell into our lap in the middle of February. She is the silliest, most loving, ball chasing, stick eating bundle of energy and definitely knows how to keep our lives interesting. She is present at all our lectures behind the scenes cheering us on for success and making sure her mom stays awake 🙈"

Submitted by: Val Carvalho (PY2)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

Betta hold your pets cuz this fish got flare - here is this week's Fur-macist winner!

Name: Pluto

"Pluto is a beta fish who loves to swim and eat."

Submitted by: Kanika (Year 2)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

Pugs over drugs any day - here is this week's Fur-macist winner!

Name: Dolly

"If there is food, Dolly is there. "

Submitted by: Layne (Year 2)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

The nomination period for the 2021-2022 PhUS Executive Council elections is now OPEN!

As we near the end of the academic year, PhUS will be conducting its annual Executive elections! Each position will be held from May 2021 to May 2022. Students from the UBC PharmD Class of 2023 and 2024 may nominate themselves for any of the executive positions (outlined below).

Council positions to be elected in this election are as follow:

President (currently held by Parsa Amin)
VP Internal (currently held by Jeremy Bulatao)
VP External (currently held by Kevin Taewook Kang)
VP Finance (currently held by Jessica Jiang)
VP Social (currently held by Radha Gupta)
VP Academic (currently held by Giordano Bua)
VP Communications (currently held by Marcus Lo)

If you are interested in running for a position on the PhUS council, ensure to do the following:

1. Complete a 2021 PhUS Executive Elections student nomination application form

2. Familiarize yourself with the Electoral Procedures (found in the application form)

3. Review Article 5 of the PhUS Constitution to gain a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities for the position that you are interested in. (Alternatively, you may view the recording from our 2021 Annual General Meeting!).

All information regarding elections is available from https://ubcphus.org/2021-elections/
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Quick links:

Nomination form:https://ubcphus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/PhUS-2021-Executive-Elections-Nomination-Form-.pdf

AGM Slides:https://ubcphus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AGM-Slides-2021.pdf

AGM Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k8z0O4XW5TwQUpdtc-eAl5DebOhiJcEv/view?usp=sharing

PhUS Constitution: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BYCs3bQs_1YBdqyFnitUl_tQagyF42tg/view?usp=sharing
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Please submit all completed nomination forms to [email protected]

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Parsa, or to any of the respective PhUS executives mentioned above.

Best of luck!

This week's Fur-macist winner is one of the happiest looking pups you'll see all week!

Name: Leo

"Wear a cone, but make it FASHUN!"

Submitted by: Gina (Year 4)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

This week's fur-macist winner is too cute not to share!

Name: Jackson

"He is quite a drama queen! Is he giving you a sign that he wants to go for a walk or have some food and you miss it? Be prepared to experience a high degree of sass for the remainder of the day! Jokes apart, he is the light of our family, I don't know what I would do without him"

Submitted by: Gurtinder Bisla (Year 3)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

Here's this week's Fur-macist winner!

Name: Frosty

"He is my polar bear! Sleeps like an angel, licks me all the time and howls to go pop! Goes out of his way to greet people and loves children!"

Submitted by: Munny Pal, Year 3

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

This week's Fur-macist winner is pretty fly for a cacti!

Name: Bruce

Bruce loves his sunlight and water as much as you do. He gets pampered daily with his own personal DJ and grooming services as-needed. He could not be happier with his life!

Submitted by: Marcus Lo, PY2

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

The weiner of the week y'all...... 😁😁😁

Name: Bella

"Bella is a sassy and classy weiner. Food is her main motivation in life. She is 14 this year which makes her a senior citizen!"

Submitted by: Waverly Lam (Year 3)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, hugooo?!

Name: Hugo

"Hugo is addicted to eating and sleeps all day."

Submitted by: Ginny Chen (Year 3)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

Happy new year everyone! Here is the first Fur-macist winner of 2021 - this puppy's quarantine fit takes the cake!

Name: Cesar

"Cesar has more clothing than I do! He is a fashionista 😎"

Submitted by: Helen H. (Year 3)

Be sure to submit your pet for next week's draw by filling out the following form!
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8

Hi all,

A few Q&As regarding ICE exam changes are highlighted in our most recent meeting minutes under: Discussions - 1c (page 2). I've attached the file below for those who are interested in learning more.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vQN5J4S7PUSAkJ1OCXDVztj_2UcC-amp/view?usp=

Lastly, best of luck to all with ICE and elective exams!

November 30, 2020 Meeting Minutes.pdf

Strolling into your news feed is this week's Fur-macist winner!

Name: Junior

"This my dog Junior, he is a six year old Papillon. He is adorable, loyal, and intelligent, but is not the biggest fan of walks. He prefers to accompany me on my daily drives to Starbucks. He loves ordering the puppuccino."

Submitted by: Sonali Rishi, PY3

This marks the last Fur-macist post of the semester - we would like to wish everyone the best of luck with final exams, and a great winter break!

Posts will be resuming at the start of Term 2! Be sure to enter your pet(s) here:
https://forms.gle/TC51dAzKNpaUBnmK8