NABP Executive Committee Approves VIPPS™ Budget

At their meeting May 20–21, 1999, prior to the Association’s 95th Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the members of the NABP Executive Committee reviewed and acted upon a number of program and policy-related issues. The following items were among those discussed.

• The Pharmacist and Pharmacy Achievement and Discipline™ database (PPAD™) currently contains 600 records of disciplined individuals and 177 disciplined facilities from 42 states, as well as the names of 71 pharmacists who passed one or more disease state management (DSM) examinations.
• A Request for Proposal (RFP) has been distributed to those vendors that are interested in continuing to convert the DSM examinations from a paper-and-pencil to a computer-based format. A similar RFP will soon be developed and circulated for computerizing the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination™ (FPGEE™). NABP hopes to have both exam programs available in a windowless, computer-based environment by the beginning of 2000.
• The Executive Committee approved a recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Examinations (ACE) that documentation required of individuals seeking FPGEC certification be accepted only from the institution that granted the pharmacy degree, not from the candidate.
• The criteria for NABP’s Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites (VIPPS) program were reviewed and approved for release on the NABP Web site. The Executive Committee approved a tentative budget for the program and an implementation schedule.
• Eleven individuals were selected to receive a stipend from DuPont Pharmaceuticals to attend the 1999 Utah School on Alcoholism and Other Dependencies.

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