The South Carolina College of Pharmacy (SCCP) team of Maryjoy Lepak (University of South Carolina) and Marley Linder (Medical University of South Carolina) were the College's first ever combined-campus team to compete and win the South Carolina Society of Health-System Pharmacists (SCSHP) clinical skills competition on Oct. 25 in Columbia.

Student teams were asked to develop a plan to treat a child’s medical problems based on a provided scenario.

Three other teams from the College also participated and finished in the top four: Jacqueline Pratt and Kaitlyn Turner, Rachael Lanier and Carrie Alderman, and Caroline Griggs and Sarah Glaholt. Those teams are all from the MUSC campus.

The national competition will be held December 1-2 at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists mid-year clinical meeting in Las Vegas.

At the national competition, each winning team member receives a $500 cash award along with individual first place trophies and a large team trophy to bring back to the school. Student pharmacists from South Carolina have performed well in the national competition in the past, including two teams from MUSC that won the competition -- Julie Long and Karen Hembree Spry in 2006 and Aubrey Cartwright and Kelli Davis in 2001.