Today the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) and the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy (CCGP) issued a press release announcing announcing that the Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (CGP) credential will move under the BPS portfolio of pharmacist certifications. Kudos to those...
This issue of AJHP is a theme issue featuring numerous papers on provider status. I applaud the Journal for featuring more theme issues such as this one that bring us more in-depth focus on important topics facing our profession. What struck me most as I read these papers is that a common...
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Last August in this blog I asked if it was time for pharmacy to reassess its licensure model ( http://connect.ashp.org/blogs/david-witmer/2015/08/21/does-pharmacy-need-to-modernize-its-approach-to-licensure ) . Only a couple of you responded with comments. At the time I shared a report from...
As we ponder the future of pharmacy’s framework for Board certification we would do well to study how things work for medicine. A recent survey conducted by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) showed the most pharmacists believed that pharmacy would be best served by basing its framework on...
It has been quite a while since I have contributed a blog. But I am going to make a more concerted effort to make some regular contributions. This month’s issue of the Journal includes the publication of a Special Feature titled: Credentialing and privileging of pharmacists: A...
Policy week is always a highlight of the year here at ASHP. Thought leaders from around the country gather for the week to discuss and debate policy questions and it always leaves me with a renewed sense of purpose (and lots of new and challenging projects). In an earlier blog I recognized...
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