National Patient Counseling Competition
The goal of the APhA-ASP National Patient Counseling Competition is
to encourage student pharmacists in their efforts toward becoming better
patient educators. The competition is designed to reflect changes that
are occurring in practice, to promote and encourage further professional
development of the student pharmacist and to reinforce the role of the
pharmacist as a health care provider and educator.
The competition begins on the local level as students compete to be
the national representative from their school or college of pharmacy.
The competition on the local level may be funded from a variety of
sources such as official college funds, locally obtained funding, state
association support, and student fund-raising activities. Both the
locally awarded prizes and the travel expenses for the winner to compete
in the national competition will be the responsibility of the school or
college of pharmacy. Each of the top ten finalists that compete in the
final round of local competition will receive an award, compliments of
APhA-ASP.
Once the local winner from each school or college of pharmacy is
decided, this individual will schedule an appointment to compete on the
national level at the APhA2008 Annual Meeting & Exposition in San
Diego, CA. The national competition is divided into the preliminary
round and final round. At the preliminary round, students select a
simple practice scenario at random and are required to counsel a patient
on the appropriate use of the drug involved. Students are then given
time to refer to the reference sources available in the model pharmacy.
After consulting the references and determining the appropriate
information for the patient, the participants counsel the patient.
Evaluations are based on the content and style of the counseling
presentations. The ten highest scoring participants are then invited to
the final round.
The final round involves a more complex counseling situation where
the participants again select a prescription at random and are asked to
counsel the patient on safe and effective drug use. In addition, the
patient in the final round will display personality characteristics such
as anxiousness, belligerence or apathy to challenge the participants'
ability to convey pertinent information in a realistic situation. The
top ten finalists in the national competition will be recognized during
the APhA-ASP Awards Ceremony and will receive a prize compliments of
APhA-ASP. The four top winners of the national competition will also
receive cash prizes.
Local winners must be selected by February 15th, 2008 and
must contact APhA Headquarters to schedule an appointment to participate
in the national competition.
NPCC materials are mailed to all chapter advisors in early fall each
year.
For questions or to schedule an appointment contact:
APhA-ASP
National Patient Counseling Competition Coordinator
Lynette Hamilton
800-237-2742, ext. 7514
lhamilton@aphanet.org
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