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Mission Statement:
PSAP-VI provides pertinent pharmacotherapeutic updates to enhance and assess the practice skills of pharmacists.
Program Goals:
The goal of PSAP-VI is to provide pharmacists with new, previously unpublished content. PSAP-VI is not a textbook,
nor does it provide overall reviews of topics. Rather, the series presents the latest (3-5 years) new information
within specific topics. The program will allow pharmacists to develop and assess their knowledge in the science and
application of pharmacotherapy and to enhance their educational competence in this specialty. Emphasis will be placed
on providing quality pharmaceutical care. PSAP-VI will:
- Assist other structured programs (e.g., staff development, external Pharm.D., and postgraduate training programs)
in upgrading the clinical competence of clinical pharmacy generalists;
- Assist advanced level clinical practitioners and pharmacotherapy specialists in maintaining their clinical competence; and
- Assist pharmacotherapy specialists in meeting qualifications for recertification.
No other source provides as much information as PSAP-VI, information you can put to use immediately in the provision
of quality patient care to improve patient outcomes. The program is designed as a self-assessment tool to assist you
in sharpening your clinical skills at your own pace and keeping abreast in therapeutic areas with updated standards of practice.
The first book of PSAP-VI will be released in mid-January 2007 in both print and online versions. PSAP-VI covers 15
therapeutic areas in a series of 11 home-study books. You will receive 11 books, one every 3 months (January, April,
July, October), over a 2.5-year period.
Book A includes peer-reviewed chapters containing current, relevant information within each therapeutic area. Each
chapters includes updates of critical pharmacotherapy with a focus on the provision of quality patient care to improve
patient outcomes, annotated references to direct health care professionals to additional resources for further study,
and multiple choice self-assessment questions in case-study format written to improve participants' clinical management
skills. Book B (online only) provides the answers and detailed rationale for the self-assessment questions.
New with the PSAP-VI edition are the following:
- All testing done online;
- Electronic answer books in a pdf format;
- Shorter, more concise chapters; and
- An expanded annotated bibliography.
PSAP subscribers will submit all tests through a Web-based testing program. Although subscribers will still receive
books in a print or online version, answer books will be available only in an electronic format instead of the print
books used in past PSAP editions. Based on subscriber feedback, PSAP chapters will be shorter and concentrate on
information released in the past 3-5 years. Also, the number of Annotated Bibliography references has been expanded
because subscribers indicated that the documentation was valuable in their practices.
 The American College of
Clinical Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing
pharmacy education. ACPE credit for each PSAP-VI book is available for 3 years from the date of its release.
To receive Continuing Pharmacy Education credit for a PSAP-VI test, a post test must be submitted online
for scoring. Continuing pharmacy education credit will be awarded for test scores 50% or greater. The answers to each
continuing education post test will be made available electronically to participants after they successfully complete
the continuing education post test. If you submit a PSAP-VI continuing education post test, information will also be
included with your statement of CE credit describing how to receive your answers in an electronic format. Statements
of continuing education credit will be processed and mailed within 10 business days of receiving an ACPE test (See
below for processing times for BCPS tests). The exception to the 10-day processing is the 3-month period after a
book is released. Statements of credit (ACPE) will be mailed out after the BCPS tests are processed.
To receive the explained answers to the PSAP-VI questions without submitting a continuing education test,
fill out the online waiver form for each module you do not want to complete. By completing the waiver form, you
waive the opportunity to receive continuing education credit for any module for which you request to receive
answers. Once you submit a waiver, you will be redirected to a PDF that contains the answers for the post test
module that you waived. Waiver statements will be processed and mailed within 10 business days of receiving a waiver form.
Subscribers submitting a PSAP-VI post test for BCPS recertification credit have a narrow window of opportunity
(the 3-month period before the release of the answer book) to use each module for recertification. Refer to the
inside cover of each print and online book for the due date for submitting online tests for a BCPS subscriber to
apply the continuing education credit toward recertification.
Tests submitted for BCPS recertification credit will be processed and results mailed within 60 days of the published
due date. Only completed tests are eligible for credit; no partial or incomplete tests will be processed.
The passing point for BCPS recertification is based on statistical analysis of the examinations in each of the
modules. If you receive a passing score, that information will be forwarded to BPS, and a statement of continuing
pharmacy education/BCPS recertification credit will be sent to you.
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