Why BPS?

There’s already more in the modern pharmacopoeia than one mind can grasp, yet the horizons of medication therapy expand daily. In pharmacy, as in all medical practice, specialization has become essential to optimal care. Clinical knowledge and skills simply must be targeted and verified to meet the needs of patients, employers, payers, providers and peers.

Board certification through BPS—the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties—is key to fostering pharmacists’ inevitable evolution from order-filling agents to integral members of the patient care team. The Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) predicts that, by the year 2015, pharmacists “…will be the patient care providers that healthcare systems and payers recognize as being responsible for ensuring desired medication use outcomes.”

Certification is, indeed, the only practical means of determining which pharmacists are qualified to contribute at these evolving, advanced practice levels.