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Continuing Education Credits for NTPD Courses

The University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy provides ACPE-accredited continuing education credit for selected courses or components of courses in the Nontraditional PharmD program. The NTPD program administration believes that the NTPD students are working hard in the program and should not have to spend additional time fulfilling CE requirements for licensure while they are enrolled in the program. The School aims to provide a minimum of 15 contact hours per year for a student taking at least one class per semester. There is no extra charge for CE credits earned while enrolled as a student in NTPD courses.

CE credit is currently provided for all of the didactic courses in the NTPD program, with the exception of Instructional Methods (PRDO 5560) and Advanced Drug Literature Evaluation (PRDO 5460). CE credit is not provided for any of the advanced pharmacy practice experience courses (APPEs or rotations) due to the individual nature of each course.

CE statements of credit are issued at the end of the course once final grades are submitted to the UCD registrar. Credit for courses offered over two semesters will be issued at the end of the second semester. To receive continuing education credit, students must pass the course with an average of 70% and they must complete all course and instructor evaluations for the course. Note that the content of online evaluations is anonymous, but the system does report names of students who have not completed the evaluations. CE statements of credit will be distributed by US mail.

Students who are licensed in states requiring a certain amount of "live" CE credit please note that all the CE credit issued in the NTPD program is "home study" as specified by ACPE guidelines.

Last updated: 11/04/08