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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Clinical Skills Competition (ASHP CSC) is an annual competition that occurs at the beginning of the school year. The CSC is comprised of a 2-hour written assessment followed by oral presentation. Students from each class paired up into teams of two, representing both Corvallis and Portland campuses, to participate in CSC.

The written portion of the CSC was held on October 8, 2015 and the oral presentations were held on October 15, 2015. For the first part of the competition, pairs of students were presented with a patient case and asked to write a pharmacist care plan within the time limit of two hours.

The top 5 teams from the written portion advanced to the second round of the competition. The teams presented their written pharmacist care plan to a panel of eight pharmacist judges. The top 5 teams included three P4 teams and two P3 teams, providing this year’s competition to be an especially hard case for newcomers.

The final results after the oral presentation round were:

5^th Place: P4 Team Jenna West & Brian Haggblom

4^th Place: P3 Team LeDiem (Teresa) Pham & Dan Muongpack

3^rd Place: P3 Team Victor Tran & Alexander Boyd
2^nd Place: P4 Team William Dai & Sarah Louie
1^st Place: P4 Team Patrick Brown & Kayla Ruhl Grzybowski

Keep an eye out for Part II of this story, as winners of our local ASHP CSC, Patrick Brown and Kayla Ruhl Grzybowski will attend the 50^th ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition in New Orleans, LA to compete in the national clinical skills competition on December 5-6, 2015.