The ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Challenge is a team-based competition. Teams of three students compete against teams from other colleges of pharmacy in a “quiz-bowl” type format.
Each summer, SCCP-Pacific hosts the local Clinical Pharmacy Challenge to allow students to test their clinical knowledge. Teams of three students will compete in 3 rounds to determine who will represent our school at the national competition.
In both the local and national competition, students in teams of 3 will compete in 3 rounds consisting of:
- A Trivia/Lightning Round (5 min)Â where students will have to answer up to 15 T/F or multiple choice questions in the following categories:
- Pharmacology (including mechanism of action, side effects profiles, drug interactions, drug interactions, approved indications, and monitoring parameters)
- Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Clinical Pharmacy History
- Biostatistics
- Health Outcomes
- Clinical Case (8 min)Â where students will be presented with a clinical case of 300 words or less and a series of five one-best-answer questions based on the information given in the case.
- Jeopardy Style (12 min)Â where students will have the opportunity to answer multiple choice questions of varying point values in 5 pre-determined categories and may answer as many questions as possible in the allotted time. Potential categories include but may not be limited to:
- Anticoagulation
- Antibiotics
- GI/Liver
- Cardiovascular Disorders
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Diseases
- Pain
- Nephrology
- CNS Disorders
- Rheumatology
- and more
2022 Local Competition Winners – June 15, 2022
Celine Chandler (P2), Tiger Saelee (P2), Faith Long (P2)
2021 Local Competition Winners – June 17, 2021
Thien-Loc Nguyen (P2), Purav Mehta (P2), Kyle Vo (P2)
2020 Local Competition Winners – July 14, 2020
Thien-Loc Nguyen (P1), Jennifer Jung (P1), and Kristi Phan (P1)
2019 Local Competition Winners – June 20, 2019
Student College of Clinical Pharmacy - Pacific 