Compounding Competition

A Message from Dr. Asbill, Professor of Pharmaceutics:

Please contact Dr. Asbill if you have any questions(csasbill@presby.edu).

Good Afternoon Colleagues and PCSP Students,

I am happy to announce that on Saturday, January 17th, the PCSP will be hosting a local compounding competition for our pharmacy students.  This event is being sponsored by Medisca.  The winning group we select from our local competition will represent the PCSP at the National Competition this spring (March 21st and 22nd) at the University of Florida.  A sign-up sheet will be posted shortly by NCPA President Paige Ross on NCPA’s bulletin board upstairs.   For the National competition, there are three components in which each group will be evaluated (Compounding Classic, Regulatory Challenge and Quality Compounding).

The compounding classic component features the formulation, preparation, presentation and documentation of three (3) compounded medications. From a list of chemicals provided, students are asked to allocate each one to a specific medication and associated delivery system for a given route of delivery.

The regulatory challenge component features a regulatory challenge whereby students are issued a single or series of controversial issues involving regulatory standards of practice. Prior to this event, student teams, along with their faculty representative, will have been given the opportunity to formulate a written response, following a prescribed template, in an attempt to ultimately find reasonable solutions to a series of challenges facing today’s compounding industry experts. Teams will select an orator to deliver a clear message and defend a position stand on the issue(s) being addressed before a panel of industry experts, fellow students and faculty.

The quality compounding component features the creation and hosting of a kiosk at a trade show. In a highly interactive and social milieu, each student member of the team will be afforded the opportunity to represent themselves at a trade show. Kiosk posters will be created on-site. Representation of the underlying concept(s) is the focus of this event.

For our local competition, groups will compete in a compounding classic component and it will be similar in design to the nationalcompetition.  In addition, we will have a written component (test) in which students will have to perform calculations involving compoundedpreparation and answer questions about general information regarding the compounding of both sterile and non sterile preparations.  In addition, there will be a formal debate by each of the groups.

Teams are a group of three students.  Only the P2s, P3s and P4s are allowed to compete in the local competition.  The date of our local competition will be Saturday, January 17, 2015.