Student Sharing: My Hospital Attachment during Summer Break

Article written by Tan Yi Yan, MPharm 2+2 Year 2 student. She did her internship at Gleneagles Hospital during summer break 2021.       How did I find the intern position? When I was considering what to do with my three-month summer break, I chose to locate an intern to widen my perspective on …

Student Sharing: My Industrial Internship Experience at Kotra Pharma

Article written by Tan Zhi Xuan, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences Year 3 student. He worked as R&D Formulation Intern with Kotra Pharma (M) Sdn. Bhd for 3 months during the summer break this year. What did I do? I get to understand and experience the in-process of a generic drug product development, from desktop research, carrying …

Student Sharing: University Life and Preparing for Exchange Programme

This article is written by Tan Swee Ching, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences Year 2 student. Swee Ching is one of the students who got selected to go on the exchange programme for Year 3 Semester 2 in the UK campus.   How did you enjoy the student life in year 1 and 2? I would …

First-Year International Student: Embracing Online Learning

This article is written by Anas Samy Abdelhamed Abusikken, MPharm 2+2 Year 1 student (moving to Year 2).   I think we all have to agree that throughout our life spans, the past couple of years have been the most unique, since no recent pandemic had the same effect as this one. For me personally, …

My Experience as a Covid-19 Vaccination Centre Volunteer

In January 2020, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Malaysia marking the beginning of the devastating virus outbreak in the country. Now, a year later, a massive vaccine rollout is being carried out nationwide under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK). On the 15th and 16th May 2021, I volunteered as part of BP …

Participation in Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) as A Final Year Project Student

Featured group photo with Dr New (middle), Yee Wei, Jessica, Zheng Wei, and Jing Luen (left to right). Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) is an annual event aimed to provide inventors and innovators with a platform to promote their inventions and establish their identity to industries and investors. MTE 2020 was held at World Trade Centre …

Placement: Derick Ngai Chi Hing, MPharm Year 3

  Favourite moment(s) doing 2+2 MPharm ·       Organising PharmNotts events with my friends at UNM have definitely enriched my student life besides academic studies. ·       Year 3 Research Project at UoN – being able to choose the research topic and the unparalleled sense of accomplishment after months of hard work (lab-based research, poster presentation and …

Placement: Amy Long Kit May, MPharm Year 3

  Favourite moment(s) doing 2+2 MPharm Making friends with people from different places and cultures! Besides, it was fun transitioning to MPharm 3 in UK with my classmates. Also, I was elected as the School Representative of School of Pharmacy 2017/18 (in University of Nottingham Malaysia, UNM) and the 2+2 Course Representative during MPharm 3 …

Placement: Daniel Ryan MacDonald (MPharm Year 2)

The experience of my hospital placement at Seremban Hospital was really enlightening and put all the work we’d covered in class into context. We underwent tasks from completing a medication history to observing device counselling with patients to visiting the pharmacy stores & dispensary. The placement also gave us more of an insight into the …

Public Health Campaign Challenge 2019

Upon the completion of ‘Fight Cancer Cancer Awareness Campaign’ that kept our team hustling for a good 5 months, we decided to give the Public Health Campaign Challenge (PHCC) a shot, with the intention to share our campaign on a greater stage for the experience. PHCC is a national competition held annually by MyPSA during …