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Kappa Psi’s annual St. Baldrick’s Charity Basketball Game: Dr. Nazarian, Malav Gandhi ’22, Christian Lee ’23 and Zachary Oh ’21. NCPA: Brandon Sainz ’22, Jonathan
Ang ’22, Jenny Liu ’21 and Heather Nguyen ’21.

Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) list of Entrustable Professional Kappa Psi
Activities (EPA), which is a part of pharmacy accreditation
Epsilon Gamma Chapter
standards, for participants to rate their confidence level on
By Kenneth Mata ’22
their ability to perform various pharmacy, provider, and
administration related activities. Almost 200 new graduates As the holidays approach where we all get together to enjoy
and final-year pharmacy students from 13 different colleges the company of friends and family, Epsilon Gamma
responded to the survey and were categorized as final-year understands what is means to be a family and has been
students, new graduates without licensure, post-graduates, raising funds for cancer research so families can have a hope
first-year pharmacists, and pharmacists practicing for 2 years against cancer and appreciate one more day during the
or fewer. Survey-takers generally rated themselves as holidays. In the month of October, students of Kappa Psi
“practice-ready” with the exception of preparing sterile raised funds for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to donate
compounded products. The results found statistically $1,259.22 in hopes to find a cure for childhood cancers.
significant differences between survey-takers based on their What made this fundraiser so successful were the incentives
student/post-grad/graduate status except in the activities of of having both students and faculty receive nominations to
“prepar[ing] sterile compounded products.” The team participate in a basketball tournament where every donation
presented a poster at the 2019 CSHP Seminar in Anaheim, for each participant that meets a certain tier donation ($25,
California and plans to present again at the 2020 CPhA $50, $100) ends up having to wear a silly article of clothing
Western Pharmacy Exchange. that resulted in a ridiculous outfit during the basketball
tournament. Six students and 2 faculty members were
Career/Interview Day nominated and battled it out for the sake of a good cause.
Needless to say, it was a successful event for a greater cause
By Mark Iannuzzo
from the members of Kappa Psi.
The College of Pharmacy hosted its annual Career/Interview
Day on October 7, 2019. Career/Interview Day provides NCPA
students an opportunity to speak with prospective employers
By Melissa Fryhling ’22
about intern and future career opportunities. It also provides
an opportunity for fourth-year students to actually interview NCPA hosted their first annual Thanksgiving canned food
with employers. There were several participating companies drive this year from November 18-22. Board members tabled
that had table-top displays which allowed students to visit throughout the week and encouraged students to donate
with all the representatives on an informal basis. This year’s canned goods or non-perishable food items that would then
participants included Albertsons, CVS Health, Kaiser be donated to the INSAN for Humanity Foundation, a non-
Permanente, Rite Aid, Rx Relief, Walgreens, and Walmart. profit organization that aims to assist the underserved and
For more information about future career events, please homeless communities in the Greater Los Angeles area.
contact Mark Iannuzzo at 909-469-5507 or Student Pharmacists from all classes donated with the top
miannuzzo@westernu.edu. three contributors winning Amazon gift cards. Brandon
Sainz ’22 was the top contributor with 131 items donated.

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