Faculty of Pharmacy UGM held a systematic guest lecture which involved alumni and pharmacy practitioners to debrief and enrich students’ knowledge. This activity was arranged regularly and designed for students at Pharmacist Education Programme. On the first day, the guest lecture committee invited Dra. Ellen Wijaya, MS, MM, Apt (industry practitioner, alumni of Faculty of Pharmacy UGM, the committee of Indonesian Pharmacist Association, the committee of Pharmacy KAGAMA 2016-2021) and Dra Wahyu Maryani, Apt (industry practitioner, alumni of Faculty of Pharmacy UGM). In the first occasion, Dra Ellen Wijaya gave undergraduate and post-graduate students with the following topics: 1) regulatory affairs and its job descriptions, 2) soft skills required to work in regulatory affairs, 3) Pharmacovigilance and its correlation to product information as well as how to deliver/ implement the information of pharmacovigilance data to the patients.
The students are expected to achieve the following learning objectives: 1) students understand that in pharmaceutical industry, there is an important and demanded job which is Regulatory Affairs; 2) students have an insight on Regulatory Affairs which require hard skill in pharmacy and importantly the soft skills to accomplish success in that field; 3) students understand the implementation of pharmacovigilance of a medicine product as the data to update the product information: side effects, warning & precautions, dosage, and etc.; 4) students understand the drug registration procedures based on BPOM regulations; 5) students understand the type of permissions should be owned by pharmaceutical industry. In the second lecture, Dra Wahyu Maryani gave the students information concerning the drug registration procedures.