What happens after graduation? This is a question that is asked so often during the education period. Fortunately, the profession of pharmacy has the advantage of offering a very diverse range of career paths for pharmacy graduates.
A university education is not just about the degree, but more about what you can expect after graduation and the opportunities that lie ahead. The PTE Faculty of Pharmacy is committed to ensuring that its students have an outline of the professional and career opportunities that their programme offers from their freshman year. Just a few weeks after World Pharmacists' Day, on 6 October 2022, we hosted the Profession Day and Profession Night. This day was dedicated to students about the profession, opportunities to gain academic experience within the university, and to network with each other and the labour market. We were delighted to welcome Hungarian and English graduates from our faculty to present their career paths, our institutes to showcase the wide range of academic student activities, and to spend the afternoon together with our students and lecturers in a fun-filled atmosphere, with quizzes, a cooking competition and a dance party.
The Professional Day is one of the Faculty's most important career guidance events. The professional programme, which showcased diverse and less familiar areas of the profession, gave pharmacy students an insight into the labour market opportunities offered by the pharmaceutical industry, retail pharmacy, hospital-clinical pharmacy and finance, among others.
Two employees of the pharmaceutical company Sanofi in Veresegyháza and Viatris/Mylan Hungary in Komárom were introduced, and the students were also introduced to the MSL (Medical Science Liasion) profession, which maintains scientific professional contacts with prominent specialists and leading physicians. Participants learned what a pharmacist can do in public administration, hospital-clinical care and public pharmacy. A large number of pharmacy graduates and alumni gave presentations on job opportunities after graduation, both at home and abroad. However, the path to a degree is through successful academic progress. In this context, Dr. Rita Börzsei, Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy of the Faculty of Pharmacy, gave a presentation on the Mentor Programme, in which students can apply to be both mentors and mentees.
In addition, the first programme of the Professional Day included flash presentations by the various departments of the Faculty of Pharmacy, showing how students can get involved in the research work of the institutes and departments in connection with the Undergraduate Research Society topics. The students then had the opportunity to visit the institutes and departments and learn more about the day-to-day life of the them.
This year, the Hungarian Student Union - Student Office - UP Faculty Of Pharmacy organised the 14th edition of the Professional Evening, which this year has grown into a Faculty Evening, since the Biotechnology Bsc course has also started. The year groups in English and Hungarian, as well as the teaching team, started the cooking competition with great enthusiasm during the afternoon and fought for the title of "best team" during the quiz.
The feedback was that this much anticipated event was a success, as the students had the opportunity to get to know each other and their teachers better in this more informal programme. They were also able to get more information about their opportunities at various stands, such as the Hupsa SEP programme. Haemaplasma was also represented.
Unusually, this year the participants were also able to come in costume, which set a very nice mood for the event.
Thanks to everyone for their participation. See you next year!
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