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The Student Exchange Officer in Rwanda : Ndekwe Morris
The name and abbreviation of the association : Association des Etudiants en Pharmacy au Rwanda-AEPHAR Rwanda Pharmaceutical Students Association -RPSA (name in English)
Total number of places per year? (approximately) : Five
Area possibilities?
- Community/ hospital/ industry/ research in a university/ other?
- Can you describe the work in more detail? :
Community Pharmacy hospital Pharmacy research at the university
Length of training periods? (usually 1-3 months) : 1 Month
Available months and cities ?
- Specify whether or not full month is required
- Comments? :
January to october Kigali(capital city) and Butare(campus)
The type of accommodation?
- Student residence/ family/ hostel/ other?
- Paid by: the student/ the host association/ employer/ others? If paid by the student how much is it approximately :
Hostel We have a birateral exchange system. Host association pays for the accomodation and meals
Board, pocket money or other financial benefits/ remuneration?
- Board paid by: the student/ the host association/ employer/ others?
- Pocket money provided (Yes / No)?
- Other po :
student caters for his or her own expenses apart from accomodation and Meals
Social events? Possible presence of other exchange student at the same time in the same city (students of pharmacy or other fields)? : Cultural festivals, A wide range of touristic attraction sites which include Mountain gorillas and other wild animals at various national parks,water falls ,bird watching in different thick forests and of course enjoying a daily look at our country\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s 1000 hills.
Language requirements : English and French
Other requirements for the student?
- Minimum year of study?
- Graduated? :
2 year onwards
Information on Work Permits and Visa : this information can be got from our nearest Embassy in respective countries
Selection Procedures?
- Deadline to apply?
- % Bilateral exchanges usually done?
- Choice of the Exchange Student by: the SEO / the host (employer)? :
2 months before your planned time of Exchange. Our exchange is bilateral. SEO choses student.
Special remarks : Our colleagues in Medicine will receive about 60 exchange students this year who will profit from the many, diverse and new rich clinical cases that we as Pharmacy students are learning a lot from. This year our Country was blessed to Host Both the presidents o f the USA and the Republic of Germany on a Visit.
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This information has been updated the last time on 2009-03-20

answers from the evaluation of student that that went to Rwanda .

Question Score from 1 to 5 of the answers
How was the application procedure?Too complicated0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Easy and clear
Did you get enough information about the Exchange conditions?No0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %yes
What do you think of the IPSF Web Site?Very unclear0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Very clear
How was the assistance provided by your SEO? Was it easy to get in contact with the SEO?Bad0 %0 %0 %0 %0 %very good!
Did those activities fulfil your expectations?No0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Very much
Was it easy to reach the place where you stayed?No , very difficult0 %0 %0 %0 %100 %Yes , no transport problems
Did you feel at home at the place where you stayed?Not at all0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Very much
Was your employer interested in teaching you?Not at all0 %100 %0 %0 %0 %Very interested
Do you think the work you did was interesting?Not at all0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Very interesting
Do you think you learned enough during your traineeship?Not at all0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Yes I do
Did the work correspond to the information that you received before the traineeship?Not at all0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Yes
Did you experience any communication problems during your traineeship?Not at all0 %0 %0 %0 %100 %Yes , many
Was this too much?Not at all100 %0 %0 %0 %0 %Yes far too much
Did you get the opportunity to visit the country?Not at all0 %0 %0 %100 %0 %Yes more than enough
Were the traineeship and visit as you expected?Not at all0 %0 %100 %0 %0 %Yes I am very
Would you advise other students to apply for this association's SEP?Not at all0 %0 %0 %100 %0 %Yes definitely

Evaluations of students that went to Rwanda

  • 19/08/2007 - 19/09/2007 : positive evaluation
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