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.

Congratulations to the 2009 Clinical Skills Competition Winners!

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. ASHP will be offering a web-based training session to coordinators in late August to help prepare the schools for holding their 2010 local events. The date and time for the training session will be announced soon.  

**COMING SOON – 2010 Coordinator Handbook and Checklist. Please check back in mid-August!**

New & Notable to the Clinical Skills Competition in 2010

We are continually making improvements to the Clinical Skills Competition and highlighted below are a few changes for this year.

• Promotional posters mailed to schools in August.
• An iPod Touch device preloaded with Lexi-Complete with AHFS Essentials will be provided to each team for use during the semi-final round (national) competition. To help your competitors prepare, a free trial version of Lexi-Complete with AHFS Essentials will be provided by Lexi-Comp, Inc. for preliminary round (school-level) competitions for students to access via their personal handheld device.  Your student competitors can access the trial version at www.lexi.com/csctrial . See Lexi-Comp's flyer [PDF] for more details about this offer.
• Members of the Top 10 finalist teams will each receive an iPod Touch preloaded with a one-year subscription to Lexi-Complete with AHFS Essentials as part of their prize package.
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams will be announced at the awards ceremony and team members will each receive a drug information or pharmacy publication provided by ASHP.

Promotional Materials

For your convenience, ASHP has designed materials you can use to promote the Clinical Skills Competition on your campus.

• 2010 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!
• 2010 CSC Poster [PDF]
  Two 11x17 color posters were sent to schools in the August mailing.  Write in the specifics of your competition and post them  on campus. The file is included here to give you the option to print additional copies onsite.

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

2010 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 $300 value) to compete at the national level competition held in Anaheim, CA, December 4-5, 2010.

Top Ten Finalist Teams in the National Competition
Top ten finalist team members will each receive the following:

•  $100 ASHP gift certificate, good for membership, meetings, and products and services.
• Access to ASHP’s PharmPrep Online, a case-based board preparatory tool.
• iPod Touch device preloaded with a one-year subscription to Lexi-Complete with AHFS Essentials.

1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams will also receive a drug information or pharmacy publication provided by ASHP.

National Winners
The winning team members each receive a $500 cash award, individual first place trophies and a large first place trophy to take back to their school.

View Clinical Skills Competition Past Winners