The online rounds of the Clinical Pharmacy Challenge (CPC), ACCP’s novel, national team competition, began September 4. Now in its second decade, the CPC continues to draw widespread participation, with 103 institutions representing 43 states, 1 international university, and the District of Columbia participating this year.
Click here to view the complete 2025 CPC schedule. The teams will answer items in each of the competition’s 3 distinct segments:
- Trivia/Lightning
- Clinical Case
- Jeopardy-style
The item content used in each segment was developed and reviewed by an expert panel of clinical pharmacy practitioners and educators. This year’s CPC Item-Author Panel was led by its chair, Dustin Linn, Pharm.D., BCCCP, BCPS.
Each team member advancing to the quarterfinal round will receive a complimentary student full-meeting registration for the 2025 ACCP Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota; an ACCP gift certificate for $125; and a certificate of recognition. Quarterfinal teams will vie for a spot in the final round to win up to $1500 and the title of Clinical Pharmacy Challenge Champion.
Past winners of the Clinical Pharmacy Challenge are:
- 2010 – University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
- 2011 – Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- 2012 – Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Pharmacy
- 2013 – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy
- 2014 – Purdue University College of Pharmacy
- 2015 – University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
- 2016 – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy
- 2017 – University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
- 2018 – University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy
- 2019 – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- 2020 – University of Missouri Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- 2021 – University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Pharmacy
- 2022 – University of Toledo College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- 2023 – University of Missouri Kansas City School of Pharmacy
- 2024 – University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
To obtain more information on the challenge and view a listing of the teams participating in and progressing through each of the 2025 online rounds, please visit https://www.accp.com/stunet/index.aspx.