The Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) has approved a professional development program to be developed and delivered by ACCP for the recertification of Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacists (BCACPs). The program comprises three components: the Ambulatory Care Self-Assessment Program (ACSAP), From Theory to Practice: Clinical Reasoning Series in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, and the Updates in Therapeutics®: The Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Preparatory Review and Recertification Course.

The Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Preparatory Review and Recertification Course, to be delivered live and subsequently in enduring formats for home study, will provide a minimum of 20 recertification hours annually. It may be used for recertification only twice, in non-consecutive years, during a 7-year recertification cycle. The course will be first offered for recertification credit at ACCP’s Updates in Therapeutics® to be held April 27 to May 1, 2012, in Reno, Nevada. From Theory to Practice: Clinical Reasoning Series in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, a live programming, will provide a minimum of 6 recertification hours annually. The program will debut in conjunction with ACCP’s 2012 Annual Meeting to be held October 21–24, 2012, in Hollywood, Florida. The Ambulatory Care Self-Assessment Program (ACSAP), a series of Web-based books focused on content within the ambulatory care pharmacy specialty, will provide a minimum of 20 recertification hours annually. ACSAP will be launched in 2013.

Together, the three components of ACCP’s BPS-approved program will offer BCACPs who elect to recert-ify by continuing education the flexibility to select both live and home study activities and provide them with more than the 100 hours of continuing education credit required over a 7-year period.

More information on the program components and minimum number of eligible hours to be offered between 2012 and 2018 will be available in November 2011 at http://www.accp.com/careers/certification.aspx.