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Second local interprofessional case competition held MUSC’s second annual Clinical Administrator Relationship Improvement Organization (Clarion) interprofessional case competition on Nov. 19 attracted the campus’ brightest students competing in an interdisciplinary activity that challenged student teams with each other.      Participants completed a comprehensive workshop where they learned teambuilding, presentation, cost analysis, and root cause analysis skills needed to address a complex case surrounding an imaginary sentinel health event. Students worked in teams to analyze the specific issue and arrived at their solutions. The cases required various skill sets suited for an interdisciplinary approach. Students made their final presentations to a panel of judges.   MUSC’s Clarion is the precursor event to the national competition, which is held at the campus of the University of Minnesota. The competition addresses a call from health care leaders, such as the Institute of Medicine and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, whose focus is to seek a safe, high quality patient-centered health care system for all patients. Meeting this goal requires an interdisciplinary approach to the way students studying in these health care specialties are trained. The institution’s competition began in 2006 under the sponsorship of Phi Lambda Sigma, the pharmacy leadership society.   This year’s winning team includes Lakisha Gadsden, Pharmacy, and Christine Walters, Graduate Studies, along with advisor David Morrisette, associate professor in rehabilitative sciences, Physical Therapy Education Program, College of Health Profession. Team members will split a $3,000 scholarship prize.   Gadsden joined the competition as a way to interact with other students. “It was a great experience to work with students that I might not normally encounter, but it did require good communication skills,” said Gadsden.      Gadsden and Walters will be joined by two additional members from the second and third place teams to compete in the national competition at the University of Minnesota next April. When students from the winning team return for spring semester 2008, they won’t have long before they regroup and begin preparing for the national competition. Once they receive formal specifics about their national case, the team will have eight weeks to prepare a new case and presentation. MUSC students will be competing against national teams from institutions around the country for a $5,000 top prize. 2007 MUSC Clarion Competition First Place ($3,000 scholarship)—Lakisha Gadsden (Pharmacy), Christine Walters (Graduate Studies), David Morrisette (Advisor) Second Place ($2,000 scholarship)—Katie Stroud (Dental Medicine), Annie Chen (Medicine), Kim Andrews (Pharmacy), Laurine Charles (Advisor) Third Place ($1,000 scholarship)—Bhav Shukla (Medicine), Danielle Madison (Pharmacy), Alvin Strasburger (Graduate Studies), Melissa Davis (Medicine), Sandra Garner, PharmD (Advisor)     Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.