The AACP Academic Affairs Committee’s Guidance for Use of the Curricular Outcomes and Entrustable Professional Activities (COEPA) for Pharmacy Graduates

The 2021–2023 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) was charged with and completed the revision of the 2013 Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education Outcomes and the 2016 Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) statements for new pharmacy graduates. Th...

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Published in:American journal of pharmaceutical education 2023-08, Vol.87 (8), p.100562-100562, Article 100562
Main Authors: Medina, Melissa S., Farland, Michelle Z., Conry, John M., Culhane, Nicole, Kennedy, Daniel R., Lockman, Kashelle, Malcom, Daniel R., Mirzaian, Edith, Vyas, Deepti, Steinkopf, Miranda, Ragucci, Kelly
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Language:English
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Curriculum
Educational outcomes
Entrustable professional activities
Objectives
Pharmacy education
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Summary:The 2021–2023 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) was charged with and completed the revision of the 2013 Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education Outcomes and the 2016 Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA) statements for new pharmacy graduates. This work resulted in a new combined document, the Curricular Outcomes and Entrustable Professional Activities (COEPA) that was unanimously approved by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Board of Directors and was published in the Journal. The AAC was also charged with providing stakeholders with guidance about how to use the new COEPA document. To achieve this charge, the AAC created example objectives for all 12 Educational Outcomes (EOs) and example tasks for all 13 EPAs. Although programs are asked to retain the EO domains, subdomains, one-word descriptors, and descriptions, unless they are adding more EOs or increasing the taxonomy level of a description, colleges and schools of pharmacy can expand or edit the example objectives and example tasks to meet local needs, as these are not designed to be prescriptive. This guidance document is published separately from the COEPA EOs and EPAs to reinforce the message that the example objectives and tasks are modifiable.
ISSN:0002-9459
1553-6467
DOI:10.1016/j.ajpe.2023.100562