So my friend Rob and I decided to participate in this year's Clinical Skills competetion for the Society of Health System Pharmacists. I had figured as a third year student we'd have a great advantage over any 2nd year's in there, and it would be good practice to see what we have in store after graduation.
Boy! that was an awesome experience. Yesterday we were given a case, a room full of books, and 2 hours in which to come up with a complete therapeutic plan for a patient. No electronic resources, mind you, so no access to primary literature, no looking up guidelines if they weren't in the books that were in the room.
We thought we did a pretty thorough job of it. Then today we had to present the case in, get this - 2 minutes! Two minutes to present everything we came up with, followed by 8 gruelling minutes where Dr. Nappi and Dr. Buie got to shred our therapeutic plan while we defended it with evidence based medicine! It was awesome! We didn't get stumped on a single question, and they seemed genuinely impressed with some of the stuff we came up with!
I am just so stoked about clinicals, I can't wait for rotations to start so I can get to apply more of what we've learnt in the classroom to real, live, patients.
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