precandidate accreditation

[anfhockey10]

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Can someone please explain thoroughly what the gamble is of going to a precanditae accreditation pharmacy school? Do you run a risk of not getting registered by a state if you attended a school that does not have full accreditation? Does that mean you cant work as a pharmacists if you graduated from that school? But what happens if a year or two down the road that school ends up getting full accreditation, then are you allowed to work as a registered pharmacist?

 

[pharmacology]

Every school that I know of that has gone through ACPE from the very beginning has ended up being accredited.

If you know about HICP you also know that they did NOT go through ACPE until a year after the program started up.

New programs usually provide a proposal to ACPE prior to even starting a program. ACPE then approves the proposal and the school then prepare cirriculm, documents, budgets, etc. Then ACPE does a site visit and determines precandidate status. If the program has everything in order they will be given precandidate status.

If a school has gone throught the trouble to organize for precandidate status they are likely a long way along to getting candidate status and then full accreditation IMO.

 

[RxRob]

Above poster is correct. A school cannot achieve full status prior to starting the program as it needs to be observed and/or tweaked. It has always been this way and there is no record of any school ever having been denied full status by the end. If your SOP is attached to an already established university you have no worries.

Additionally, your professors will be masters in their field but without all the "clicky" attitude more established teams have. They will be new there too and more empathetic and less stubborn. It's an opportunity of a lifetime I think.