North Carolina Board No Longer Approves CE Courses Not Accredited by ACPE or NCAP

April 17, 2012 10:11 am Topics: Continuing education

Beginning March 1, 2012, the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy ceased approving requests for continuing education (CE) courses that are not accredited by Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) or the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP). The reasons for the policy are two-fold: (1) the volume of such requests has increased substantially in the past two years, hindering Board staff’s ability to focus on the Board’s core functions; and (2) relatedly, Board staff was concerned about its ability to assess these requests for substantive acceptability as CE courses.

CE programs approved by Board staff on or before February 29, 2012, will remain available on the Board CE page and may be used for 2013 license renewal.

Going forward, the Board will continue to provide credit for certain categories of non-ACPE and non-NCAP CE (eg, Board meeting attendance, CPR training, precepting, residency, Spanish or other foreign language class, continuing medical education, continuing nursing education, continuing dental education).