CPTEA Members Spring 2025 E-blast (Part 2)
Dear CPTEA Members,
This is the second part of a multi-part eblast Spring Newsletter. Much of this will be further discussed at our AGM next week. For those not attending the conference or AGM, materials will be shared with all members via the CPTEA website, and announcement will come out when they are available.
For our earlier sent newsletter from April 4 – check it out on our website here
In this eblast:
- CPTEA Conference Updates and Events (reminder)
- CCAPP Strat Plan Survey (due TODAY)
- PEBC Practice Analysis Survey
- PEBC Board Update
- CPTEA Update on NAPRA Competencies and CPTEA Outcomes
- NAPRA Presentation for Students
- CCAPP July 2025 Standards and Templates (and Call Out for cross doc volunteers)
- National Pharmacy Practice Research Symposium
- CPTEA Council Meeting Minutes and Call out for AGM Agenda items
- CPTEA Council Elections coming
CPTEA Conference Updates and Events
See the updated flyer (as of May 15) – changes include:
- Wednesday reception times
- Thursday and Friday breakfast and conference start times
- Social/dinner plan options for Thursday night
- Optional Saturday Tour
Still to come:
- CPTEA Conference Agenda
- CPTEA AGM Agenda and supplemental materials
CCAPP Strat Plan Survey
CPTEA encourages everyone, if you have not already, complete this survey (TODAY) as sent by Wayne earlier in April:
The CCAPP Board will review and update CCAPP's strategic plan at its June 2025 meeting. Input from partners and collaborators will be extremely helpful in creating the plan.
Please take 15 minutes to complete the survey at the link below by May 23, 2025. If there are others in your organization who you believe could also provide valuable information, feel free to forward the link to them also.
CCAPP 2025 Strategic Planning Survey
Your response to this survey will not be returned to me personally. It will go to our Facilitator. Thank you in advance. Wayne
PEBC Practice Analysis Survey
The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) is surveying the importance of entry-to-practice competencies for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians that are essential for public protection. The survey results will help revise the PEBC Qualifying Examination blueprints, maintaining the validity and relevance of the exams for assessing the competence of entry-to-practice pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
The survey is open to all practising pharmacy professionals in Canada and all responses are confidential. Upon completion of the survey, an optional draw is available for a chance to win one of ten prizes of $100 each. PEBC will also make a monetary donation to the Canadian Mental Health Association for each survey completed.
Please click here to access the survey until June 20, 2025.
As CPTEA members, this may directly impact the blueprint our graduates will be tested against, so our voices are very much needed. However, please also circulate to your clinical partners to reach as many practicing technicians as we can.
Here is a link to more information: PEBC Practice Analysis Survey
PEBC Board Update 2025
Important for all members to review – PEBC will be presenting a more focused update at the conference and address the received feedback on the new template for data sharing as well.
CPTEA Update on NAPRA Competencies and CPTEA Outcomes
- Fall 2024 the revised NAPRA Entry to Practice Competencies were released
- The new competencies downplay the learning/skills for compounding (most specifically sterile compounding) as Entry to Practice
- CPTEA council made a motion to keep and create detailed learning outcomes for compounding as part of the CPTEA Educational Learning Outcomes
- Educators need to know that although the NAPRA Competencies need to be met, they may and should also be exceeded
- CCAPP has kept sterile theory and practice as part of their standards and expects it to stay in our curriculum, and they have the expectation that we map to both NAPRA Competencies and CPTEA Outcomes
- A small working group was established through CPTEA council to create a cross-doc of old competencies to new, this will be shared at the conference and released to all members shortly after. This doc will be helpful in identifying what is similar and what is different in the competencies, and in turn will help to inform our mapping changes and potential gaps in curriculum.
- Over the 2025-2026 academic year, CPTEA will create a working group to revise the CPTEA Educational Outcomes that will be presented to membership for feedback and approval. Another working group will then be established to map the new outcomes to the current competencies.
- CPTEA would like to work with CCAPP to change wording in standards to provide only one curriculum map to the CPTEA outcomes, as they will be mapped to and exceed the NAPRA Competencies.
NAPRA Presentation for Students
From NAPRA:
The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) is pleased to share this short introductory presentation to NAPRA. The presentation was developed with pharmacist and pharmacy technician students in mind to help dispel any uncertainties they may have regarding the mission and work of NAPRA, the respective roles of NAPRA and the pharmacy regulatory authorities (PRAs), and NAPRA’s role in the drug scheduling process.
We hope that you find the presentation useful and will share it with the schools to direct their students to the presentation and learn more about NAPRA as part of their course work.
CCAPP July 2025 Standards and Templates (and Call Out for cross doc volunteers)
The most current CCAPP Standards for Accreditation are in place for any self-studies and site visits happening after July 1, 2025. Currently “evidence templates” are being shared by CCAPP to those that are due in this next cycle. These templates are not yet publicly available, as they are pilots only, and CCAPP is working on refining them and making them more digital. No timeline has been communicated regarding these templates. Templates are there to be used as guidelines or as is, however, institutions can use their own template or formatting as long as the same data/evidence is captured and easy to navigate.
As some schools have already started with the new standards, CPTEA is hoping to share and compare if any one has already done their own cross-doc of new to old. Volunteers would form a small working group to share what they have started/created, compare with others, and create a cross-doc to share with the membership. This cross-doc would help schools as they prepare for their self-study of what is similar and what is different from the old to the new standards. This doc would help identify materials that could be used/revised from previous submissions, and where new evidence is now required. We would like this to be completed and shared this June, a quick turn-around. If you would like to volunteer for this working group, please email Angela Roach: angela.grimminck@mohawkcollege.ca and she will connect the volunteers together.
National Pharmacy Practice Research Symposium
Hi Pharmacy Organizations,
We hope to see many of you at the pharmacy practice research (PPR) symposium, Strengthening Health with Research in Pharmacy (SHARP), on June 20, in Niagara Falls, ON. The Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada (AFPC), Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy (CFP) and Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN) partnered to co-host this inaugural, national event.
Attached is the final program, with an exciting lineup of keynote speakers, mini sessions, panel discussions, conversation tables and 60+ poster presentations. It’s a unique opportunity to share and discuss important PPR results at a pan-Canadian level. Registration and hotel details are below. (LINK HERE to posted attached flyer)
We encourage you to share event details with other colleagues and stakeholders who may be interested, including federal/provincial government/agency representatives.
Sincerely, Janet
Janet Cooper, BSc(Pharm), ACPR
Executive Director (retired) & Manager for SHARP Symposium
Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada
CPTEA Council Meeting Minutes and Call out for AGM Agenda items
Linked are the minutes from the CPTEA Council Spring meeting. Please review, as many of the discussions will carry over into our AGM.
The CPTEA AGM Agenda is being finalized and will be shared electronically the day before the AGM and by print the day of. We have our standing agenda with all our position reports, and will include new business as well, if you have anything to request on the agenda, please email Angela Roach: angela.grimminck@mohawkcollege.ca by 9am (est) on Tuesday May 27.
Some of the new business requested already will include:
- CPhA/CPTEA chat,
- CSHP/CPTEA chat,
- Part A/B Registration for Techs,
- Medisca focus group recap,
- AFPC EDI modules reviewers recap,
- Bylaw changes wrt to council and elections and renumeration
CPTEA Council Elections coming
CPTEA Council Elections will happen online over the month of June. Details on nomination processes and position duties/terms will be discussed at AGM. Many changes are being suggested to be put into bylaws, and therefore a successful motion at the AGM must occur before proceeding. Our spring council meeting minutes (see above) highlight many of the suggested changes and will be described at the AGM. Members unable to attend the AGM will not be excluded from being nominees or from voting, and a summary of the information and next steps will be sent to all members the week after the AGM.
Please consider being a part of council…open positions included will be:
- Vice President
- President
- Finance Coordinator (previously known and merged positions of Treasurer and Membership Coordinator)
- Events Coordinator (previously known as Conference Coordinator)
- Communications Coordinator (new position)
- Current Events Coordinator (new position, name to be decided)
- Ontario Provincial Rep (GTHA)
- Ontario Provincial Rep (Non-GTHA)
- Nova Scotia Provincial Rep
- Newfoundland Provincial Rep (pending)