To provide a platform to the budding pharmacists of the country, a two-day national level competition ‘Students Pharmacy Skill Competition’ (SPSC) 2017 was held at Technocrats Institute of Technology (TIT) Bhopal on Wednesday.
It is to be noted that SPSC is organised every year in the last week of November.
The purpose of the Students Pharmacy Skills Competition is to increase pharmacy students' awareness of the importance of the pharmacist's role in direct patient care.
In the competition, students work on case studies in self-selected teams of two. Teams compete by demonstrating their skills in assessing patient information and current therapy, identifying and prioritizing drug therapy problems, identifying treatment goals, and recommending a pharmacy care plan. A panel of evaluators determines the winners of the competition using the criteria provided. During the competition there were four round wherein the students had to demonstrate their skills. The first round was all about the Practical Based Skill Evalution. Under this section the teams were given case studies and solving them with their abilities was the task.
In the next round, i.e. Problems Solving Abilities, the students were asked to solve a rare problem with which the patient was suffering.
In The next round, the students had to present their practical working models. A lot of innovation was seen in this round, as the students used their skills to present their working models.
