Are they not accredited? If they are not, what happens when you graduate from their school?
I'm new to understanding pharmacy schools and everything.
thanks
-Jack555
Students that graduate from a school with candidate status have all the same rights as those that go to a fully-accred. insititution. I'm not sure how long candidate status can last though because LLU and UCSD have already graduated their first class so they should have gotten full-accred. already. I'm pretty sure they'll get it this spring.
I actually talked to ACPE last month because I was thinking about going to a school with candidate status, the lady assured me that although there obviously are no guarantees, there has been NO school in the history of ACPE that hasn't acheived full accred. status after achieving pre-candidate status. And then I asked her if a school has candidate status for too long what happens, can they get put on probation so that the students still have the same rights? And she said "...hmm.. thats never happened so I can't say.. but we'd work with the schools"
ACPE isn't out to kill people's dreams of practicing pharmacy, they really are out there for the benefit of the people and work with the schools, I can't imagine UCSD not getting their full accred. status, they have great faculty and a great curriculum, I'm guessing (i have no idea so take this with a grain of salt), that there are just little tiny things ACPE wanted fixed in their program and so they made them wait an entire year (same thing with LLU).
Basically the lady I talked to on the phone said that a school would have to do something drastic to not get accreditation once its recieved candidate status. I'm going to guess something like fire half of the faculty or close down their compounding labs to open up a petting zoo, or introduce a mandatory divination class in replacement of therapuetics.. I don't know about you but I can't foresee UCSD doing that
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