NABP Partners with ECE for FPGEC Educational Credential Evaluations

March 9, 2006 12:00 AM

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy^® (NABP^®) is pleased to announce that it has formed a partnership with the Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc (ECE) to evaluate the educational credentials of applicants to the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Examination Committee^™ (FPGEC^®) Certification Program. Beginning April 14, 2006, FPGEC applicants will be required to submit their supporting educational credential documents to ECE.

The improved processing time that the new method is designed to achieve has resulted in the first increase of the $700 FPGEC fee in 21 years. Applicants will pay an additional $85 fee for ECE to evaluate an applicant’s educational credentials.

Founded in 1980, ECE is a not-for-profit public service organization specializing in the evaluation of foreign educational credentials. ECE has identified the United States equivalence of foreign educational credentials for more than 1,000 educational institutions, employers, and professional licensing boards for over 20 years.

The FPGEC Certification program is accepted by the majority of NABP’s member boards of pharmacy as a means of documenting the educational equivalency of an applicant’s foreign pharmacy education as well as the pharmacist’s licensure and/or registration. Foreign-educated pharmacists awarded FPGEC Certification are considered to have partially fulfilled eligibility requirements for licensure in those states that accept the Certification.

For more information, please contact NABP at 847/391-4406 or via e-mail at custserv@nabp.net. Information and registration forms as well as further details of program requirements may be found on NABP’s Web site at www.nabp.net.

Larissa Doucette