Hello, my name is Caleb, and I am a
third year pharmacy student at the Presbyterian College School of
Pharmacy. Last month, I had the
privilege to compete in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy’s (ACCP)
National Clinical Pharmacy Challenge. To
make the team which represented our school in the national competition, I had
to compete in the local round, which was a timed written exam composed of
trivia questions, clinical case applications, and jeopardy-styled
questions. I was fortunate to be one of
the top three scorers on the local exam and was able to advance to compete in
the national competition with my team mates, Jason and Steven, who are both
fourth year pharmacy students at the PC School of Pharmacy.
The composition of the quizzes
administered during the national rounds of the competition were very similar to
the one given at the local round; it was timed, and the three sections of the
quiz remained the same. However, these
rounds were online, and it definitely made it a little more interesting,
especially when our computer froze in the middle of the clinical case
applications section in the third round!
Our team successfully maneuvered
through multiple rounds of the competition, which began with 104 teams. We made it into the top 64, the top 32, the
top 16, and we competed for one of the top 8 slots. We didn’t qualify for one of the top 8 slots
that will compete live at the ACCP annual meeting this month in Austin, Texas,
but our team did exceptionally well, and we have received a lot of recognition
from our adviser during the competition, Dr. Jaime Foushee, as well as many of
the pharmacy practice faculty and administration here at the PC School of
Pharmacy.
Caleb
P3 - Class of 2016
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