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T H E R U T G E R S A M C P T I M E S
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Letter from the Editors
Hello!
Hopefully everyone was able to enjoy the much-needed Spring Break. Whether you went to the Caribbean and got a nice tan or just stayed home, hopefully you were able to recharge and are now ready to finish the rest of the semester!
The school year is almost over but reflecting back on the past events that AMCP has held, we believe that there were many opportunities for you to participate in and be active. The Patient Outreach Trainings took place for the upcoming Asthma Clinic, the upcoming Clifton Health Fair, and the Carteret Temple Health Fair. Additionally, our annual Pharmacy Speed Networking Event took place, in which students were able to interact with pharmacists from different fields in
industry. Lastly, we would like to thank all of the participants of the P&T Competition and would like to
congratulate Delong Cen, Lisa Chen, Patrick Liu and Jonathan Rosen for placing into nationals and representing Rutgers at San Francisco this year!
Again, we would like to show our deepest gratitude to
our AMCP E-board for working hard on projects and events to make this year another great success. We would also like to thank our advisor, Dr. Jan, and diplomat, Dr. Alison Handler and all the residents for the help they have provided thus far.
Thank you once again for taking the time to read our newsletter. All of our newsletters, events and pictures are available for viewing on our website at rutgersamcp.weebly.com.
If you have any more questions or comments for our newsletter, please email ruamcpnews@gmail.com. Be sure to keep following each of our newsletters. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Your AMCP Editors
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AMCP Calendar of Events
Spring 2012
� April 10, 2012 / 6:40pm:
AMCP E-board elections
� April 15, 2012 / 8am-12pm:
AMCP/AZO/�CPA/SHPhA
collaboration: Clifton Health Fair
� April 22, 2012 /
Cateret Temple Health Fair
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Current Events • 2/29/12 - The FDA recently approved the
first influenza vaccine that covers four
strains of flu. AstraZeneca’s
MedImmune unit developed the FluMist
Quadrivalent which protects against two
strains of influenza A and two strains of
influenza B.
• 2/29/12 - AT&T and Intuit Health are
collaborating to send data from personal
health devices to healthcare providers
wirelessly with the goal of decreasing
hospitalization and health care costs.
Still in the testing phases, this project
hopes to decrease hospitalizations from
congestive heart failure, diabetes and
asthma, which combined, account for
over 80% of inpatient stays.
• 2/1/12 - Pfizer recalled 28 lots of oral
contraceptive Lo/Ovral-28 norgestrel
and ethinyl estradiol as well as their
generics in a packaging mix-up.
Placebos were accidentally packaged
and distributed at one of the
manufacturing centers.
General �ews
• 01/12 - Approximately half of 200 drugs
have been removed by the FDA from
the REMS program. Drugs have been
reclassified based on their requirements
such as a need for a Medication Guide
and/or a risk communication plan.
Year in Review - 2011
• For 2011, the FDA approved 37 new
molecular entities, vaccines and blood
products for marketing as opposed to
only 29 the year before. Some areas that
these drugs cover include cancer, CNS,
venom and viruses.
• Drug shortages continue to threaten the
nation as more and more critical drugs
have become harder to obtain. 178 drugs
have been acknowledged by the FDA in
2010 to be in short supply for unknown
reasons. These numbers have increased
in 2011 even though action has been
taken.
• All news featured above were taken from Pharmacy
Choice. All items are in relative order.
AMCP P&T
COMPETITION
BRINGS GREAT
INSIGHT
This year, the AMCP (Academy of Managed Care
Pharmacy) Pharmacy and Therapeutics competition focused on the
drug Dabigatran Etexilate, otherwise known as Pradaxa ®.
Working in teams of four, students were evaluated on their ability
to simulate the process that a pharmacy and therapeutics committee
would undergo to prepare a well-informed drug recommendation
for an institution such as a health plan.
AMCP and Boehringer Ingleheim provided the dossier for
the drug product and students were expected to analyze it,
alongside any additional relevant information given, such as
clinical trials and pharmacoeconomic analyses. The expectation
was that in the end, all knowledge gleaned from such research
would serve as a basis for creating a monograph and a presentation
of each teams’ final conclusions to the respective health plan, as
well as for answering any questions such an organization may
pose.
I am currently a first professional year student who
decided to participate in this competition purely for the experience.
Being a younger student, I was not even sure I wanted to
participate in the P& T competition at first. After having done so, I
am grateful for the experience. Realistically, the entire experience
can be described with interwoven pros and cons. [Continued on page 2]
By Claire Liu
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AMCP P&T COMPETITION
BRINGS GREAT INSIGHT
courses like pharmacoeconomics and get a taste
of the pharmaceutical world, the knowledge we
gleaned from the P&T competition has helped
us understand relevant concepts explained in
class. Also, my team was selected as one of the
four finalist groups so we were given the
opportunity to present our decision to a board
consisting of professors. Though nerve-racking,
it was great to practice our presentation skills in
front of and to interact with such knowledgeable
professionals.
Overall, I really enjoyed the entire
experience; even the in-depth scrutiny of our
drug recommendation and the targeted
questioning that followed our presentation. It
really made clear to me how much my team and
I had learned in the course of a single winter
break. In fact, I am immensely proud of how
much everyone who participated in the P&T
competition accomplished. There is a lot of
work that goes into preparing a monograph;
however, the experience is one that may be hard
to parallel in any other manner than
participating in the competition again. For
anyone who is interested in getting involved in
AMCP or the pharmacy school in general, I
suggest taking advantage of this opportunity
and experiencing what P&T is really all about.
[…Continued from page 1]
Firstly, I wish I could say the whole
project was easy, but that would be completely off
the mark. In fact, it was truthfully no small task.
My three teammates and I are P1’s, so we were
only beginning to build our health literacy. We
were unable to foresee the difficulty that we would
experience understanding the extensive
terminology and concepts that are used in dossiers
and pharmocoeconomic analyses. AMCP provided
guidelines suggesting that all research for the
project should require an average of 30 hours in
addition to the time needed to complete required
materials for submission. My team spent a major
part of that time purely on understanding the
terminology required to do the research, a
frustrating and seemingly never-ending process.
More specifically, the idea of QALYs, cost
effectiveness, formularies, prior authorizations and
even just the concept of what a monograph is, was
confusing. If we were not all P1’s, the process
may have been much faster since an older student
could probably explain concepts in a shorter
amount of time than that which my team had to
invest in research and self-learning.
On the other hand, because my entire
team’s members were self-chosen and not
assigned, we were all friends and, therefore,
understood each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
Hence, we were able to work cohesively without
suffering the restraint of unfamiliarity preventing
us from speaking our minds. Again because we
were all P1 students, we shared the exact same
”level” of understanding and therefore could work
together in grasping the concepts in front of us.
Simply speaking, any shame or fear of revealing a
lack of knowledge was absent in our group.
Furthermore, though it was unpleasant to dive
headfirst into an endless sea of knowledge, it was
well worth it. In fact, as we begin to finally take
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Provost Molloy as our key speakers.
The formal portion of the event,
following all the introductions, included eight
rounds of six-minute networking sessions
between students and pharmacy professionals,
whom were separated by
affiliation (community, hospital, industry, etc).
Through these sessions, students were given an
opportunity to deliver their “elevator speech,”
work on their networking skills and gain
exposure to the different paths of pharmacy.
Unlike past years, in which the ratio of students
to pharmacists was 2:1 or 3:1, this year, we
gave students an opportunity for a more
intimate setting with a 1:1 ratio.
After very meaningful discussions
during the sessions, the professionals and
students had a chance to continue their
interactions without any time restraint. This
allowed students to take advantage of the
second portion of the event by expanding upon
the conversations they had previously.
The growing interest from all the parties
involved and the success of the event push us to
make the Speed Networking a bigger and better
event. Thus, we have already begun planning
for 2013. Next year, the event will take place on
February 7, 2013 in the Busch Multi Purpose
Room so mark your calendars!
“What is the Speed Networking Event?”
students would ask me. I would explain that the
event is geared toward connecting students at the
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy with our highly
successful alumni and other professionals in the
tri-state area. I could attest to the fact that by
attending the event, one could tremendously
improve his or her networking skills. I can also
state that the connections formed and the topics
discussed during the speed networking rounds can
take a student a long way towards becoming a
better professional.
Although, all of the above is true, one
thing is for certain. The Speed Networking event
was something that started as an idea three years
ago; however, it has grown to become a real
tradition at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.
Moreover, other schools have replicated the event
as well. Students are excited to attend due to the
prospect of meeting pharmacists from different
fields of our profession. Equally, professionals are
eager to come to this event to share their
experiences with students and network among
themselves. Furthermore, the school
administration fully supports the event since it
brings more exposure to the school itself and gives
the alumni an opportunity to come back.
Usually held on Busch Campus, the 3rd
Annual AZO/AMCP Speed Networking Event
took place at the newly renovated Livingston
Campus on March 7th, 2012. With the help of
Rutgers faculty, participating pharmacists and our
sponsors, Novartis and Pfizer, we were able to
have a very successful event. The event was
introduced to the student body with a short video
introduction about the importance of acquiring
networking skills. Moreover, the Speed
Networking event featured Dean Barone and
SPEED NETWORKING
PROVIDES REWARDING
OPPORTUNITIES
By Claire Liu
By Kyrill Petrosyan