The University of Texas College of Pharmacy currently offers three methods by which to earn continuing education: Live Programs - This type of program involves coming to a specific site for a set number of hours to listen to a series of speakers on predetermined topics. Participants are required to fill out a program evaluation form and attend all portions of the program for which they would like to receive continuing education credit. Please see the Live Programs section for more specifics on the programs we offer. Home Study Courses - The objective of these courses is to update pharmacists' knowledge of current concepts in pharmacy at their own pace, without having to attend a live event. Each course consists of written material covering a given subject, along with a post-test. Some home study courses also include an audio and/or a visual aid. See specific course descriptions for details. Certificate Course - The College offers one certificate program and it is in diabetes disease state management. Please click the icon on the home page for more imformation. You can also call Jennifer at 512/471-4512 for more information.
The amount of continuing education (CE) hours required to renew a Texas pharmacist license is 30 every two years.
Most states have a similar requirment, and many have requirements that some of the 30 hours must be in specific topics. For state by state information please refer to your state's board of pharmacy.
Texas parhamcist technicians are not required to maintain continuing education credits for state licenses, but may have other requirements from their employer.
For questions for Texas licenses, please refer to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy web site at www.tsbp.state.tx.us
To determine if a program is accredited by ACPE, look for the ACPE logo and a fourteen digit program number on information brochures regarding the program. If the program number is followed by a "P", it is accredited for pharmacists. If the program number is followed by a "T", it is approved for Technicians.
All 30 hours of CE must be ACPE-accredited, but it is not required that the CE be topic specific, such as AIDS-related, or medium specific shuch as live or home study.
Yes. In addition, all the programs offered are accredited by The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).
ACPE is the national accrediting agency for pharmacy continuing education. ACPE assures the quality of continuing pharmacy education programs by evaluating the providers of CE and by monitoring the quality of their educational activities. ACPE also provides a basis for uniform acceptance of CE credits among the states. For maintaining a Texas pharmacy license, all 30 hours of continuing education credit must be provided by an ACPE-approved provider. The University of Texas College of Pharmacy is an ACPE-approved provider.
What is Continuing Professional Development?
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an approach to lifelong learning being discussed as a potential model for pharmacists in the United States. CPD does not replace continuing education (CE), but CE will be an essential component of CPD. Its purpose is to ensure that pharmacists maintain their knowledge, skills, and competencies to practice throughout their careers in their specific area of practice, to improve the pharmacist's personal performance, and ultimately to improve patient and public health outcomes. - ACPE |
ACPE and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) are developing a continuing pharmacy education (CPE) tracking service, CPE Monitor, that will authenticate and store data for completed CPE units received by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from ACPE-accredited providers. The University of Texas at Austin is a ACPE accredited provider.
The service promises to save state board of pharmacy, CPE providers, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians time and cost by streamlining the process of verifying that licensees and registrants meet CPE requirements and by providing a centralized repository for pharmacists’ and pharmacy technicians’ continuing education details.
This service will be particularly helpful to the growing number of pharmacists who are licensed in multiple states, and thus may need to meet the varied CPE requirements of different state boards of pharmacy.
Providers will no longer need to provide electronic or printed statements of credit to their pharmacist and pharmacy technician participants. Instead, once information is received by NABP, the tracking system will make CPE data for each participant available to the state boards of pharmacy where the participant is licensed or registered. Implementation of the CPE tracking system will also eliminate the need for Annual Activity Update (AAU) reporting by the provider each year.
Source - ACPE
The CPE tracking system creates a direct link for sending CPE data from ACPE-accredited providers to ACPE and then to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), ensuring that all reported CPE units are officially verified by ACPE-accredited providers.
Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians may obtain a unique identification number from NABP to be used when registering for a CPE activity from an ACPE-accredited provider. For a given Universal Activity Number, the provider will be offered a variety of mechanisms to upload each participant’s NABP e-profile ID number via the Provider Web Tool. After CPE units are processed by ACPE and NABP, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to login to a comprehensive electronic profile to access information about their completed CPE.
You likely have attended what is called a “private” event. Meaning, the event is only open to those who attended the program. First, you need to create an account. To create an account, go to the “create an account” link at the top right side of the page.
Once you have registered, go to the link “My Account” tab at the top middle of this page. Go to the link “Programs and Pending CE”. There you will see a sentence at the bottom of the list that says, “to register for private programs, click here.” Click the “here” tab and put in the code from the event here. Now your program will appear under the My Account listings, and you can complete the evaluation(s).
You likely have attended what is called a “private” event. Meaning, the event is only open to those who attended the program. First, you need to create an account. To create an account, go to the “create an account” link at the top right side of the page.
Once you have registered, go to the link “My Account” tab at the top middle of this page. Go to the link “Programs and Pending CE”. There you will see a sentence at the bottom of the list that says, “to register for private programs, click here.” Click the “here” tab and put in the code from the event here. Now your program will appear under the My Account listings, and you can complete the evaluation(s).
If you attended a conference, but did not attend some of the sessions, you should only complete the evaluation for the sessions you concluded. Once you complete an evaluation from a specific session, your NABP Profile will be credited for that session.
If you complete evaluations of sessions you did not attend, please note that The UT College of Pharmacy receives an attendance list from the conference sponsor. If the records show you received credit for a session you did not attend, your NABP Profile will be corrected.
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