Development of the 2025 ACPE Accreditation Standards Leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree.

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has developed the Accreditation Standards and Key Elements for the Professional Program in Pharmacy Leading to the PharmD Degree (Standards 2025), effective July 1, 2025. This article describes the processes used to revise the accreditation standards and key elements, as well as changes made from Standards 2016 to Standards 2025. Communities of interest were invited to provide written comments via email or participate in a web-based survey.

The Intersection of Growth Mindset and Accreditation in Pharmacy Education.

Objectives: To describe existing growth mindset literature within pharmacy and health care education, describe how a growth mindset can be beneficial in the accreditation process, and propose potential ways to promote a growth mindset in faculty, preceptors, students, and staff within pharmacy education.

Findings: To help pharmacy learners develop a growth mindset, existing literature emphasizes the need for a shift toward and aligning assessment with a growth mindset, helping to create self-directed adaptive learners, leading to health care providers who can adjust their practice to tackle expected and unexpected challenges throughout their careers. Strategies to create a culture of growth mindset identified include training faculty and learners on growth mindset and developing new assessments that track a learner's growth.

Considerations for Faculty and Presenters in Interprofessional Continuing Education.

Interprofessional (IP) continuing education (IPCE) has evolved to focus on team performance and a commitment to education delivery that enables team members to learn from, with, and about each other. Evidence shows substantial benefits from IPCE that improve team-work, care delivery, and patient outcomes. Continuing professional development and IPCE faculty and presenters play a key role in IPCE and must understand the tenets of IPCE and how to facilitate the learning of an IP team.