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Student Literary ChallengeThe pharmacy profession is dynamic and multifaceted. As pharmacy students, you have insight into the issues that are important to future pharmacists. Submit a pharmacy related article on a topic of your choice to the CAPSI SLC! You will be eligible to win the following prizes AND the winning article will be entered into the national SLC competition. • First prize: Complementary registration and a travel subsidy to PDW 2012! - Deadline for submissions is October 25th, 2011 (Tuesday at midnight)
Topic Suggestions 2011-2012 The following is a list of topic suggestions for the Student Literary Challenge. These are intended to serve as a starting point for students having difficulty picking a topic they are passionate about. Please note that the students are NOT limited to this list of suggestions. 1) Write a position paper on a current "hot" topic in pharmacy such as the recent legislative changes in Ontario, entry-level PharmD implementation, remote dispensing, pharmacist prescribing, etc. 2) Discuss medication disposal and your opinion on the potential impact of environmental exposure to medications. Who should be responsible for safe disposal? 3) There are many opportunities for pharmacists beyond traditional practice. Describe a unique practice opportunity, focussing on the pharmacist's unique role. 4) Pharmacy practice is very different outside Western-based society (i.e. North America, England and Australia). Compare and contrast pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical care between a country of your choice and Canada. 5) With increasing demand for international aid in developing countries, what can we, as pharmacists, do overseas to help contribute to this aid? Discuss the ethical implications that may be involved in medication access (i.e. anti-retrovirals) to these developing countries. 6) Share your experience about your interactions with a favourite patient (obtain consent) during your work in your practice setting. Describe how this interaction has changed your perspectives or views about pharmacy practice. 7) Discuss a recent innovation in drug discovery and speculate its impact on the profession over the next 10 to 20 years. 8) With the upcoming new Pharmacy Technician regulation occurring in many provinces across Canada, discuss how you think this will change the role of the pharmacist and what you foresee the future role of the pharmacist to be. 9) Comment on the often outrageous cost of cancer treatments that, in some cases, only extend a patients life by a matter of months. Is this an appropriate use of publicly funded healthcare? 10) You and your "non-pharmacy" friends are in an argument about the role of the pharmacist in the community pharmacy setting. Your friends see the pharmacist simply as an over paid and glorified technician. How would you defend and justify the role of the community pharmacist to these friends?
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