The Oncology Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course is offered annually and available for recertification credit. The course content is based on the BPS domains and related tasks and knowledge statements. BCOPs who take the Oncology Review Course and successfully complete the Web-based self-assessment examination by the established deadline will earn at least 20.0 hours of oncology recertification credit. Actual hours available through the course will vary from year to year, based on the course content and structure.

Note: BCOPs will be required to successfully complete the review course at least once during their seven-year recertification period and may take the course for recertification credit no more than three times during the recertification period.

BCOPs may attend the live course, to be presented April 28-30, 2011, in San Antonio, Texas, or complete the home study version of the course, made available on about July 1, 2011. The home study version of the course is available in both online/Web-based version and as a CD-ROM and workbook package. Both the live and home study formats of the course include access to a Web-based self-assessment test. BCOPs who take the course and successfully complete the self-assessment test will earn at least 25.0 hours of recertification credit. The Web-based self-assessment test must be submitted by November 30, 2011 to be eligible for recertification credit.

To register for the 2011 Oncology Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course click here.

The Oncology Pharmacy Home Study Syllabus consists of a collection of print articles from the primary literature that focuses on advances across the four domains of oncology specialty practice. BCOPs who read each article included in the Home Study Syllabus and successfully complete the Web-based self-assessment examination on the content of the articles will earn 15.0 hours of recertification credit. The Home Study Syllabus is updated annually and available in July of each year.

The 2011 Home Study Syllabus will be made available for recertification credit on July 1, 2011. The Web-based self-assessment examination for the Home Study Syllabus must be submitted by November 30, 2011 to be eligible for recertification credit.

More information on the 2011 Oncology Pharmacy Home Study Syllabus will be available in 2011.

The Oncology Pharmacy Specialty Sessions are live educational programs that focus on new developments in oncology pharmacy. On an annual basis, BCOPs may earn at least 5.0 recertification hours for the live educational programming following successful completion of a Web-based self-assessment examination. Actual hours available through live programming may vary from year to year, based on the content of the programming

The Oncology Pharmacy Specialty Sessions are updated annually and are presented at the Annual Meeting of the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA), and repeated at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), and at the Midyear Clinical Meeting of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). BCOPs who wish to earn recertification credit for the Oncology Pharmacy Specialty Sessions must register and attend one of these meetings and attend the specialty sessions in full at the meeting in order to purchase access to the Web-based post test. Upon successful completion of the post test, BCOPs will earn at least 5.0 hours of recertification credit. Partial credit is not available. The self-assessment examination must be submitted by December 31, 2011.

In 2011, the Oncology Pharmacy Specialty Sessions will be presented first during the 2011 HOPA Annual Meeting, March 23–26 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Specialty Sessions will be repeated at the 2011 ACCP Annual Meeting, October 16–19, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting, December 4-8, in New Orleans, Louisana. The content of the Specialty Sessions will be the same at each meeting. Visit the Web sites of the organizations for more information on the Specialty Sessions as information becomes available. HOPA: www.hoparx.org; ACCP: www.accp.com; ASHP: www.ashp.org.

The components of the professional development program have been structured to provide BCOPs who are due to recertify the opportunity to earn sufficient recertification hours to satisfy the requirements established by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS), the certifying agency. The program credit requirements for recertification as established by BPS will be phased in over the next several years. The following grid presents the phase-in schedule, as well as the minimum number of recertification credit hours to be made available, by year, for each component of the program. BCOPs may select from among these components, each of which will be available annually, to earn the required number of hours during their recertification cycles.

Note: The Oncology Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course must be successfully completed at least one time during the cycle, and no more than three times during the cycle.

¹BCOPs must complete the Oncology Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course at least once, but no more than three times, during their recertification cycle.
²Future consideration will be given to expanding the number of hours offered annually, if warranted by participant interest.

More information on the 2010 Oncology Pharmacy Preparatory Review Course will be available at www.accp.com in 2010.

For more information regarding the Oncology Recertification Program please contact ACCP at (913) 492-3311 or send an e-mail inquiry to accp@accp.com.