BPS Petition to Recognize Emergency Medicine Pharmacy as New Specialty

November 18, 2019

Public Comment Period Now Open - Submit Comments by Dec 22

ACCP and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) have partnered to submit a petition to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) seeking recognition of Emergency Medicine (EM) Pharmacy as a specialty, and BPS is seeking comments on this petition. The petition and access to comment submission may be viewed on the BPS website. Public comments must be submitted by December 22, 2019. BPS will consider the comments in its deliberations, together with the evidence presented by ACCP and ASHP, to determine whether the criteria for recognizing a new pharmacy specialty have been met.