2019 ACCP Student Chapter Awards – Applications Due June 30

ACCP presents two awards for Student Chapter members: the Outstanding Student Chapter and the Outstanding Student Chapter Member. These honors will be awarded annually. Application for each award is submitted as part of the Annual Chapter Report and is due June 30, 2019. A description of each award follows.

Outstanding Student Chapter Award

This award recognizes the ACCP student chapter that has exemplified strength in leadership, dedication in patient care, and passion for professional development through its activities and membership. The activities of the chapter should address ACCP’s core values of extending the frontiers of clinical pharmacy and promoting dedication to excellence in patient care, research, and education. A key component of all the core values is the clinical pharmacist’s ability to work collaboratively within the health care environment. Each chapter must demonstrate its ability to work with other health disciplines.

An announcement will be featured on the ACCP website, and an article highlighting the winning chapter’s accomplishments will be published in StuNews and the ACCP Report. A commemorative plaque and $1000 cash will be awarded to the winning chapter. The faculty liaison/adviser and one appointed student liaison from the winning chapter will receive complimentary full Annual Meeting registrations, and each will receive a $250 travel stipend to attend.

Members of student chapters who wish to apply for the award will complete an application form as part of their end-of-the-year report, due June 30. As part of the application process, each chapter is required to submit a rationale statement (250 words or less) outlining the plan for using the $1000 award funds, should said chapter be selected as the winner.

Outstanding Student Chapter Member

This award recognizes a student who has enhanced student involvement from his or her ACCP chapter at the local, state, or national level and who has expanded the presence of ACCP through community engagement, education promotion, research opportunities, and/or professional stewardship. The activities of the selected student should address ACCP’s core values of extending the frontiers of clinical pharmacy and promoting dedica¬tion to excellence in patient care, research, and education.

Each chapter award recipient will receive a certificate suitable for framing and recognition in an ACCP Report article, a StuNews article, and the Annual Meeting News. In addition, student award winners in attendance at the award-year Annual Meeting will be recognized during the Clinical Pharmacy Challenge semifinal round of competition.

Each recognized student chapter will select its recipi¬ent for Outstanding Student Chapter annually and submit the winner’s name to the ACCP national office as part of its year-end report, due June 30.

ACCP SNAC Now Accepting Applications for 2019–2020

Initiated as a working group in 2006, the National Student Network Advisory (SNAC) group became a standing committee of the College in 2007 whose members are appointed by the ACCP president-elect. The present committee serves in an advisory capacity to the ACCP Board of Regents and staff, providing feedback and assistance in developing new programs and services for students. Student members who are interested in serving on the ACCP SNAC, either as a member-at-large or in a leadership role, may apply for appointment. All applicants must submit a CV, a personal essay, and a letter of recommendation from a professor, a preceptor, or an academic dean or his or her designee. Application for appointment to the 2019–2020 SNAC is available online. Applications are due June 14, 2019.