Clinical Research Challenge

The Clinical Research Challenge is a team-based competition where teams of three students will compete in a journal club-style contest against teams from other colleges of pharmacy. Since each institution can only have a single team of three students to represent them nationally, we host a local competition at the University of the Pacific to select the winning team. The challenge consists of analyzing scientific literature, composing a letter of intent, and submitting your very own research protocol design. More information can be found at: https://www.accp.com/stunet/crc/

The national winning team and three runner-up teams are eligible to receive monetary awards up to $1500, award certificates or team trophy, complementary ACCP Annual Meeting registration, and allowed to present their research design at the Annual Meeting Poster Session.

Local Competition

Teams of three pharmacy students (P1s and P2s) compete against each other to determine the winning team that will represent University of the Pacific in the national ACCP Clinical Research Challenge. The local competition exam is timed and composes of a series of multiple choice and T/F questions that are based upon a piece of drug literature that is chosen by the Oversight Panel. The format of the local competition exam is similar to round 1 of the national competition, please refer below for more information.

National Competition

Round 1 – Online Journal Club Examination
Round 2 – Letter of Intent (LOI) Submission
Round 3 – Research Protocol Design

Round 1 – Online Journal Club Examination

Each team will be provided a reference to a piece of drug literature (e.g., landmark trial, recently published study) 72 hours prior to round 1 scheduled date. Teams will complete a set of online M/C and T/F questions that are based on the provided literature under supervision of the faculty advisor or his/her designee. Potential questions topics can include, but are not limited to: