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Table 1. ACPE Standards 2025 and Implementation
Item No.
What References Cover
Relevance to the Checklist in Figure 1
1. Development of Accreditation CounStandards 2025
cil for Pharmacy
Education. Development of the 2025
ACPE Accreditation
Standards Leading to
the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree. American
Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.
Published February
18, 2025.
Full References
Describes the process
used to revise ACPE
standards, summarizes
stakeholder input, and
outlines key structural
changes (25 standards
to 7 standards; updated
key elements; alignment
with evolving practice).
Provided justification for emphasizing practice-readiness and the shift to a more streamlined, outcomes-focused standards set that
supports EPA-style assessment.
2. Implementing
Standards 2025
AACP COD/COF
Task Force. Implementing Standards
2025. American
Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.
Published January
12, 2026.
Task force guidance on how
schools should operationalize Standards 2025, including diagnostic/prescribing
content within pharmacist
scope, IPPE alignment with
the Pharmacists’ Patient Care
Process, use of nontraditional
practice models, and expectations for feedback and
continuous quality improvement.
Underpins the emphasis on real patient-care
experiences, non-simulation IPPEs, longitudinal assessment, and preceptor feedback
processes that EPA checklists support.
3. ACPE Update
– assuring quality
and timelines
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy
Education. ACPE Update: Assuring Quality
in Pharmacy Education. ACPE handout
(ASHPMCM 2025).
Confirms that Standards
2025 were finalized July
1, 2024, with compliance
required by July 1, 2025; reiterates practice-ready/teamready goals and summarizes
key changes.
Context for timing and rationale of new
standards that make EPA-based experiential
assessment more central.
4. ACPE’s Jan Engel discusses the
new standards
Bonner L. ACPE’s Jan
Engle discusses new
PharmD standards.
Pharmacy Today.
October 2024.
Narrative explanation of
Provided language about practice- and
why Standards 2025 were
team-readiness that shaped how the checklist
created, reduction from 25 to framed EPA expectations for preceptors.
7 standards, and explicit emphasis on “practice-ready and
team-ready” graduates with
effective date July 1, 2025.
Curriculum Outcomes and Entrustable Professional Activities (COEPA) and Entrustable Professional Activities
(EPA)–specific guidance
5. AACP COEPA/
EPA guidance
AACP Academic
Affairs Committee.
The AACP Academic
Affairs Committee’s
Guidance for Use of
the Curriculum Outcomes and Entrustable
Professional Activities
2022 (COEPA 2022).
AACP PDF, 2022.
Defines COEPA EPAs as
Gave the conceptual and practical basis for
pharmacy workplace activ• The EPA domains used (colities all students should be
lect, assess, plan, implement,
entrusted to do in expefollow-up, collaborate, educate,
riential settings; describes ensystems/safety).
trustment scales; emphasizes
• The idea that preceptors should
EPAs as minimum standard
use an entrustment scale and
for core IPPE/APPE experirepeated observations to support
ences; instructs preceptors
progression decisions.
to use entrustment scales
for prospective EPA-based
assessment.
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