A Curtin University student has been named Western Australia\u2019s Pharmacy Student of the Year.<\/p>\n
Zach Nizich, a fourth-year pharmacy student, recently received the prestigious accolade, which is based on a student\u2019s exceptional pharmaceutical counselling skills, at a presentation at the chambers of the Pharmaceutical Council of Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Mr Nizich, 21, from Mount Pleasant, competed against pharmacy opponents from the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University to scoop the distinguished award.<\/p>\n
He said he could not believe he was selected as the Curtin candidate let alone win the state final.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still in shock. I\u2019d like to credit lecturers Sue White and Ciara Bambrick from the School of Pharmacy, who put me through the paces and spent a lot of time helping me to practise my counselling skills,\u201d Mr Nizich said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really enjoyed participating. I was presented with two mock scenarios where I had to counsel patients on separate presenting complaints in front of a live audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to win an all expenses paid trip to attend the finals at the national competition that will be held at the Pharmacy Australia Congress in Melbourne from 6 \u2013 9 October.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the opportunity to compete against the other state finalists and spending time learning about the pharmacy profession.\u201d<\/p>\n
The overall national winner will have the opportunity to attend the International Pharmacy Student Federation congress in Egypt in August 2012.<\/p>\n
The annual competition is open to all final-year pharmacy students and is organised by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and sponsored by the pharmaceutical company – Alphapharm.<\/p>\n
Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kristy Jones \/ Teresa Belcher, Public Relations, Curtin University A Curtin University student has been named Western Australia\u2019s Pharmacy Student of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17801","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":null,"photographer":null,"media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Tel: 08 9266 9085, Email: k.jones@curtin.edu.au<\/a>, teresa.belcher@curtin.edu.au<\/a>
\nWeb: http:\/\/curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"