Alabama News: Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)

August 1, 2008 12:34 PM Topics: Continuing education

Published in the August 2008 Alabama State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter

Effective August 1, 2007, a topic indicator of “patient safety” was added to the Universal Program Number codes. The list of current and new designator codes are as follows:

L  Live Program
H  Home Study
C  Both Live and Home Study
P  Pharmacists
T  Pharmacy Technician
01  Disease State Management/Drug Therapy
02  AIDS Related Therapy
03  Pharmacy Law
04  General Pharmacy Topics
05  Patient Safety: The prevention of health care errors and the elimination or mitigation of patient injury caused by health care errors.

Pharmaceutical education at the level of performance is key to learning. When preparing CE programs pay attention to content and to whom the content is intended to serve. Alabama State Board of Pharmacy-approved CE programs will have CE well designated if it is approved for a pharmacist, technician, or both pharmacist and technician.