ACCP uses a continuous strategic planning process that includes member input, committee and task force charges focused on strategic initiatives, continuous monitoring of progress, and ongoing revisions to the College’s strategic plan as needed. A comprehensive update occurs every 3–5 years. This ongoing, structured approach allows the College to respond to member needs and changing dynamics in the environment while maintaining focus on its long-term goals. The ACCP Board of Regents began work on a comprehensive update to the College’s 2017 Strategic Plan almost a year ago.

Member input is critical to a successful strategic planning endeavor. To inform the 2020 ACCP Strategic Plan, the College has sought member input through several mechanisms over the past year, including an environmental scan, a survey focused on prioritizing and identifying support for initiatives that emerged in the environmental scan, and subsequent qualitative surveys to dive deeper into member perspectives on specific strategic initiatives.

ACCP’s mission and core values remain constant and serve as the guiding principles for all of its strategic and operational initiatives. Critical issues, strategic directions, and objectives are reviewed, revised, and newly developed with each plan update. Critical issues are current concerns vital to the College’s mission. Strategic directions are statements of intent, expressing the College’s approach to addressing a critical issue. Objectives serve as specific, achievable, time-specific actions intended to contribute to the College’s accomplishment of a strategic direction.

Through a review of member input and an environmental scan, the board determined that the three critical issues identified in the 2017 Strategic Plan remain relevant and applicable. ACCP will therefore continue its focus on developing, advancing, and positioning clinical pharmacists to fully contribute their unique expertise to patient care. Informed by member survey responses and comments, several new strategic directions emerged from the board’s work on updating the College’s strategic plan, including efforts to ensure diversity and inclusiveness, support the growth of clinical pharmacy in the community setting, explore professional development for non–residency-trained pharmacists or those entering career transitions, gain knowledge and skills in establishing new services or other enterprises, and develop future ACCP leaders. In addition, the board retained many ongoing strategic directions, including a continued focus on leading the implementation of comprehensive medication management, providing professional development in research and precision medicine, and contributing to the growth and evolution of clinical pharmacy worldwide. The process of formulating new objectives for each strategic direction began in April and will continue in July, with a review of the final draft of the strategic plan anticipated shortly thereafter. The final version of the plan will be published on the ACCP website and featured in a story in the ACCP Report.