First Year Checklist

In preparation for Orientation and the upcoming first year, please review the following items and ensure they are completed by the appropriate deadlines. 

A comprehensive list will be emailed by faculty student services to matriculated students during the summer prior to classes.

  • Make sure that you’ve registered for Orientation.
  •  Don’t forget to bring some cash on the day of the orientation for #pharmacy swag, if desired. Typically T-shirts are sold. More details will be released closer to orientation. Proceeds will go towards the Graduation Committee of the fourth-year class.
  •  There will likely be a Discord Server made for the incoming class led by an elected representative of APSA among your cohort.
  • Become an APSA member (Optional, but highly recommended).
  • Complete Faculty requirements
  • Consider textbook options
  • If initiating your ONECard for the first time, upload a photo to the University’s Site.
  • Add APSA’s calendar to your own.
  • Make sure you follow our Instagram @APSAlutely to keep up to date with APSA!
  •  Make sure you “like” the PQ+2 Facebook page to keep up to date with APSA’s magazine! Visit the Facebook page here to like the page!
  •  Sign up for a FREE RxA (Alberta Pharmacists’ Association) student membership on their website.
  •  Sign up for a FREE CPhA (Canadian Pharmacists’ Association) student membership on their website. Visit their website here. This membership entitles you to a 20% discount on your first time buying textbooks from their online store.