In keeping with its commitment to advance clinical pharmacy worldwide, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) announces the launch of the ACCP International Clinical Pharmacy Center Recognition Program. The recognition involves an organizational, performance-based evaluation that determines and acknowledges a center’s commitment to advancing clinical pharmacy practice and providing education, training, and research.
Mission
To improve patient care by advancing clinical pharmacy throughout the world.
Vision
- Clinical pharmacists throughout the world will achieve medication optimization by providing essential, direct patient care in team-based settings.
- Clinical pharmacy programs will advance clinical pharmacist practice, education, training, and research worldwide.
Purpose
- To evaluate, develop, and maintain the competence of international clinical pharmacists.
- To assess the quality of clinical pharmacy programs and provide mechanisms to improve and/or maintain the quality of these programs.
- To recognize centers that are advancing clinical pharmacy and providing high-quality, direct patient care services and clinical education, training, and research.
The program is designed to recognize three successively advanced center tiers:
- ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Center
- The center provides high-quality clinical pharmacy services, though the services are limited in scope and/or complexity and do not consistently adhere to the patient care process for delivering comprehensive medication management.
- The center is advancing the education, training, and competence of the clinical pharmacy workforce, including students and trainees. The number and type of clinical rotations/experiences that integrate the clinical pharmacist into prospective therapeutic decision-making are limited.
- The center supports clinical pharmacy research and the generation of new evidence that advances pharmacotherapy and patient care. However, the center has limited ongoing research and published scholarly activity.
- ACCP Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Center
- The center provides high-quality clinical pharmacy services. The services are broad in scope, available to core patient care settings at the center, and mostly adhere to the patient care process for delivering comprehensive medication management.
- The center is committed to advancing the education, training, and competence of the clinical pharmacy workforce, including students and trainees. The number and type of clinical rotations/experiences that integrate the clinical pharmacist into prospective therapeutic decision-making meet local professional needs.
- The center supports clinical pharmacy research and the generation of new evidence that advances pharmacotherapy and patient care. The center is actively involved in clinical research and scholarship/publication, but these are limited in scope and impact. The center has gained local recognition for its clinical pharmacy research and scholarship.
- ACCP Clinical Pharmacy Center of Excellence
- The center provides high-quality clinical pharmacy services. The services are comprehensive in scope and involve both general and specialty patient care areas. Clinical pharmacy services are innovative/unique within the national environment and consistently adhere to the patient care process for delivering comprehensive medication management.
- The center is advancing the education, training, and competence of the clinical pharmacy workforce, including students and trainees. The center provides exemplary clinical education and training experiences that integrate the clinical pharmacist into prospective therapeutic decision-making. The number and type of clinical rotations offered are diverse enough to serve local, regional, and national professional training needs. The center offers unique and innovative clinical training programs for practicing pharmacists.
- The center is actively involved in ongoing clinical pharmacy research and has generated evidence that affects clinical pharmacy practice and/or patient care.
- The center is recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally for its clinical pharmacy services, education, training, and research.
More information on the ACCP International Clinical Pharmacy Center Recognition Program, including eligibility requirements and the domains and criteria for center evaluation, is available at www.accp.com/international/recognition.aspx.