Development of the 2025 ACPE Accreditation Standards Leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree

Mary E Kiersma; Dawn Zarembski; Janet P Engle; J Gregory Boyer; Jacob Gettig

doi:10.1016/j.ajpe.2024.101348

Development of the 2025 ACPE Accreditation Standards Leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree

Am J Pharm Educ. 2024 Dec 19;89(2):101348. doi: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2024.101348. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Mary E Kiersma¹, Dawn Zarembski², Janet P Engle², J Gregory Boyer², Jacob Gettig²

Affiliations

¹ The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: mkiersma@acpe-accredit.org.
² The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Chicago, IL, USA.

PMID: 39706298
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2024.101348

Abstract

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has developed the Accreditation Standards and Key Elements for the Professional Program in Pharmacy Leading to the PharmD Degree (Standards 2025), effective July 1, 2025. This article describes the processes used to revise the accreditation standards and key elements, as well as changes made from Standards 2016 to Standards 2025. Communities of interest were invited to provide written comments via email or participate in a web-based survey. Standards 2025 introduces significant changes based on stakeholder feedback, including a reduction from 25 standards to 7.

Keywords: ACPE; Accreditation; Pharmacy; Standards.