Yesterday Kristin and I had the pleasure to attend a lecture being given by one of our pharmacists, Martin Kampamba, to the fifth year student pharmacists here at the University of Zambia. The class was learning about how to develop a pharmaceutical care plan by working through various patient cases. This style of learning is very similar to how our classes our structured at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Students come prepared to classes ready to apply previously obtained knowledge in case-based lectures. Martin was very engaged with his students, including Kristin and I, calling us out by name to contribute our thoughts. He emphasized the role of the pharmacist to correct actual medication-related problems and prevent potential medication-related problems. I am confident that this group of UNZA student pharmacists will continue to advance the role of the clinical pharmacist in Zambia and will apply the skills we learned in the classroom to their practice sites.
We were thankful that the power came back on right in time for class to start. In the time leading up to the lecture power had gone out at the hospital for about 20 minutes. It would have been difficult to present the lecture content without projecting the slides Martin had prepared. During the hot and dry month of October there is often power outages. The weather has consistently been in the 90s throughout our time here and it has only rained one afternoon. We were told that Victoria Falls was more dry than usual this year because they were pumping the water for power! Kristin and I will just miss the rainy season that should begin in a few weeks which should provide some much needed water for Zambia.
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