Do you want to support student pharmacists and the future of the profession? Look no further than the ASHP Clinical Skills Competition℠ (CSC).
The CSC features students participating in an interactive, team-based analysis of clinical scenarios for hospital and health-system pharmacists. Students apply their didactic education and clinical knowledge, enhance their skills in collaborative practice, and develop their confidence as medication use experts within an interdisciplinary healthcare team.
Working in pairs, student teams from every Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education-accredited PharmD program assess patient information and current therapy, identify and prioritize drug therapy problems, establish treatment goals, and formulate a comprehensive pharmacy care plan.
Teams are evaluated on the clinical relevance, effectiveness, comprehensiveness, and practicality of their written recommendations and the clarity and logic of the oral presentation. A panel of judges, comprising ASHP members from across several practice settings, determines the winners.
What can I do?
- Attend the final round of the CSC Sunday, Dec. 7
Stop by and listen as the top 10 teams provide an oral defense of their care plans. Each team has 10 minutes to summarize a care plan and answer questions from judges. You are also invited to stick around for the case review with the national case writer. Only have a few minutes? No problem — come and go as your schedule permits. - Mark your calendar for the upcoming CSC CE webinars in February 2026
Join our experts for robust, hands-on case studies that discuss the intricacies of the disease states that influenced the 2025 local and national patient cases. Two separate webinars, each offering 1 hour of continuing education, will be held in February. Registration links and full descriptions will be available in January 2026. - Submit a case summary to be considered as a CSC case writer (Deadline: March 30)
Each year, ASHP seeks two case writers for the local (preliminary) and national (semi-final) level of the CSC. Case submissions are often based on real patient cases or the cumulative clinical experiences of the case writer. Selected cases focus on a core pharmacotherapy topic and involve critical thinking on the part of the student competitors. This is a great opportunity to flex your clinical expertise, expand your professional development, illustrate the importance of the pharmacist’s role in improving patient care outcomes, and give back to the profession. View the call for case writers to learn more.
Questions? Visit the CSC webpage or contact [email protected]. The CSC is sponsored by the ASHP Foundation and supported by McGraw Hill and Wolters Kluwer.
