The Clinical Skills Competition (CSC) is an interactive, team-based analysis of clinical scenarios for hospital/health-system pharmacists to help patients make the best use of their medications. Local competitions are held each fall on college campuses around the nation. The national competition takes place at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in December.
2009 Clinical Skills Competition Coordinator Handbook
This handbook contains a timeline, important guidelines, and instructions for conducting your preliminary-round (school-level) competition. It also contains useful information for participants.
New & Notable to the CSC Handbook:
We are continually making improvements to the Clinical Skills Competition and highlighted below are a couple of changes for this year:
- New naming structure for the school-level (preliminary round) and national-level (semi-final and final rounds) competitions.
- New eligibility requirement for student competitors to advance to the national-level semi-final and final rounds. Only ASHP student members enrolled in ACPE-accredited pharmacy programs are eligible to advance to the national level competition. Schools must confirm membership status of the winning team before sending this information to ASHP.
- One winning team of two (2) students from each ACPE-accredited pharmacy program (including “candidate” status) are invited to advance to the national-level competition. Schools with more than one campus should collaborate to hold a joint competition and determine the winning team to represent the entire school.
- CSC promotional materials available in downloadable PDF's
- Electronic report Forms A & B
2009 Clinical Skills Competition Brochure and Poster
For your convenience ASHP has designed materials you can use to promote the Clinical Skills Competition on your campus. ASHP will no longer provide printed promotional materials.
- 2009 CSC Brochure [PDF]
Information Brochure: E-mail this PDF file to your fellow students, post it on your SSHP website, or print and distribute copies at your next SSHP meeting. This brochure is a great way to spread the word about your upcoming competition!
- 2009 CSC Poster [PDF]
Customizable Poster: This PDF file has dynamic fields so you can type in the specifics of your competition, print it, and post it around campus.
Practice Cases
Please find below past ASHP Clinical Skills Competition Local and National Cases.
ASHP Clinical Skills Competition Local Case and Answer Key
ASHP Clinical Skills Competition National Case and Answer Key
2009 Prize Package
Winning Team Members From Each School
The winning team members from each participating college of pharmacy will receive a complimentary Midyear Meeting registration (a $265 value) to compete at the national level competition held in Las Vegas, NV, December 5-6, 2009.
Top Ten Finalist Teams in the National Competition
Top ten finalist team members each receive a $100 ASHP gift certificate, good for membership, meetings, and products and services. They also receive access to ASHP’s PharmPrep Online, a case-based board preparatory tool.
National Winners
The winning team members each receive a trophy and a $500 cash award. They also receive a trophy to take back to their school.
View Clinical Skills Competition Past Winners