By: Justin Thomas
The Midyear Regional Meeting always offers a great opportunity to connect with other schools and grow as professionals. Every year, I am so excited to go and see the amazing things chapters across our region are doing, and to connect with friends I have made at past events.
This year, Texas Tech had a chance to bring 12 members of the chapter who had never been to an MRM. It’s always amazing to me to see how these students react to APhA-ASP meetings. I remember coming to my first APhA-ASP event and being blown away by the passion present and the sheer number of people motivated to advance our profession. While at school, we all see only a select group of students fully and truly invested and excited about APhA-ASP. Here though, there are hundreds of students from across the country passionate about service and policy. The speakers are incredible and the sessions offer such a great chance to learn and experience pharmacy outside the limits of just school. You can’t help but change your perspective and come away affected by your experience at MRM.
Students see the possibilities offered by APhA and the amazing activities produced by other schools. They are eager to apply the knowledge that they have learned and create new opportunities for advocacy, community service, and professional development at their home campuses.
Even as we drove away from Oklahoma City, many of our members were still talking about how they were going to implement changes based on what they had heard at MRM. And now the entire chapter will benefit as they work hard to implement new programs, driven by seeing other schools and the success of APhA-ASPas a whole.
The Midyear Regional Meeting always offers a great opportunity to connect with other schools and grow as professionals. Every year, I am so excited to go and see the amazing things chapters across our region are doing, and to connect with friends I have made at past events.
This year, Texas Tech had a chance to bring 12 members of the chapter who had never been to an MRM. It’s always amazing to me to see how these students react to APhA-ASP meetings. I remember coming to my first APhA-ASP event and being blown away by the passion present and the sheer number of people motivated to advance our profession. While at school, we all see only a select group of students fully and truly invested and excited about APhA-ASP. Here though, there are hundreds of students from across the country passionate about service and policy. The speakers are incredible and the sessions offer such a great chance to learn and experience pharmacy outside the limits of just school. You can’t help but change your perspective and come away affected by your experience at MRM.
Students see the possibilities offered by APhA and the amazing activities produced by other schools. They are eager to apply the knowledge that they have learned and create new opportunities for advocacy, community service, and professional development at their home campuses.
Even as we drove away from Oklahoma City, many of our members were still talking about how they were going to implement changes based on what they had heard at MRM. And now the entire chapter will benefit as they work hard to implement new programs, driven by seeing other schools and the success of APhA-ASPas a whole.