Abstract
The Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS) on June 15 announced it had approved the joint request from three national pharmacy groups to recognize ambulatory care pharmacy practice as a specialty. Ambulatory care pharmacy practice, according to the groups’ petition, is a specialty in medication use for preventive and chronic care (see sidebar on page 1334). ... The decision brings to six the number of BPS-recognized specialties: ambulatory care pharmacy, nuclear pharmacy, nutrition support pharmacy, oncology pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, and psychiatric pharmacy. Another specialty, geriatric pharmacy, is recognized by the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy. If requisite human and financial resources come through, BPS said, the first certification exam for ambulatory care pharmacy practice can be offered in two years. BPS’s decision, said Tim R. Brown, 2009–10 chair of the ASHP Section of Home, Ambulatory, and Chronic Care Practitioners, means that ambulatory care pharmacists “are being recognized in their own right.”
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