1. 2011-2012 AMCP Pharmacy and Therapeutics Competition
Ally Stojkoska
September 24th, 2012

2. Outline What is a P&T Committee? What does a P&T Committee do?
Overview of the P&T Competition
Requirements for competing
Benefits of competing
This year’s competition topic
Questions

3. “Learning to work on a P&T committee through AMCP’s P & T competition is a skill that will be very useful in many pharmacist career pathways.” Vinson Lee, University of Southern California 2006

4. What is a P&T committee? P&T = Pharmacy and Therapeutics
A committee that meets together to promote safe, effective, and cost-effective drug therapy
Formulary management
Primarily physicians and pharmacists
Includes practitioners from a variety of specialties
Develop policies regarding drug evaluation, selection, and utilization

5. Who utilizes P&T Committee?
Any organization that maintains a drug formulary utilizes a P&T Committee
Hospitals
Health Plans
Prescription Benefit Managers (PBMs)
VA and Military

6. What do P&T Committees do?
Improve the quality of patient care while controlling scarce healthcare resources

7. What do P&T Committees do?
Manage the development and maintenance of the organization’s drug formulary
Review of scientific evidence
Peer reviewed medical literature
Clinical practice guidelines
Pharmacoeconomic studies
Perform cost-benefit analyses
Weigh the drugs impact on patient populations

8. Competition Overview Serve on a health plan’s P&T Committee
Implement AMCP’s Format for Formulary Submissions
Read the manufacturer’s dossier
Research, Research, Research!!!
Think in terms of real world experience
Make a decision on a new drug

9. Competition Requirements
Work in a team of four students
Requesting teams:
Chose ONE person who you want to be in the same team with
Must be an active AMCP member
Guaranteed your ONE request
Teams must be diverse and ideally contain a member from every year (P1,P2,P3,P4)
Create your own diverse team- Must be OK’ed

10. Competition Requirements
Deliverables
Evaluation of dossier / economic model
Format will be provided
Analysis of manufacturer’s value argument and data presented
Evaluation advantages/disadvantages of this product versus currently available formulations and place in therapy
Budget Impact Model
Drug Monograph (maximum 15 pages)

11. Competition Requirements
Presentation Requirements
30 minute presentation and 30 minute Q&A session with judges
Powerpoint Presentation
All materials must be submitted and presentation completed to receive credit

12. Competition Requirements
All materials must be submitted and presentation completed to receive credit

13. Benefits Teamwork Organization Learn/Improve skills Pharmacoeconomics
Clinical evaluation
Drug information
Presentation skills

14. More Benefits Networking opportunities Free food 
TWO ELECTIVE SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS
Enhance your CV/Resume
Winning team gets expenses paid to the AMCP Showcase
Compete at national competition
OSU Teams were placed in TOP 3 twice in the last seven years!
Last year’s local winners competed at the national level.

15. National Competition
April in San Diego, Ca

16. This year’s competition…
Tapentadol extended-release tablets for oral use
(NUCYNTA® ER)

17. Tapentadol extended realease
NUCYNTA ER is an extended release opioid agonist indicated for the management of moderate to severe chronic pain in adults and neuropathic pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy in adults

18. Sign up for P&T Competition!
Meet with your team regularly
Try to work ahead of the schedule – You can start your research on Tapentadol NOW!
Do not downplay the importance of the written materials
Only written material gets sent for national consideration
Do not be afraid to ask for direction
Faculty cannot give you direct answers, but may point you in the right direction

19. Important Dates Team and individual sign-up Email OSUPTCOMP@gmail.com
Ally
Competition date: 4th week of Jan 2012
National Competition date: April 2012

20. Questions??? Contact Ally (stojkoska.1) or Jina (park.903)