Organization background
What Board of Pharmacy Specialties does
The Board of Pharmacy Specialties administers pharmacist specialty credentials. For this meeting, the direct connection is the Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist credential: eligibility, the examination, ongoing recertification, and how approved education is recorded.
This is less a product demonstration than a chance to resolve a timeline. An attendee who brings dates, practice experience, existing credit, and a target exam or recertification cycle can ask a much better question than someone starting with 'How do I become certified?'.
Specialty certification
BPS sets eligibility, examination, and maintenance requirements for pharmacist specialty credentials.
Geriatric pharmacy pathway
The BCGP program covers initial certification and recertification for pharmacists practicing with older adults.
Public program guidance
The official site publishes candidate and recertification information, deadlines, and program policies.
BCGP is directly relevant to many ASCP attendees, but meeting education, ACPE credit, and BCGP recertification credit are not interchangeable labels. Use the booth to map the exact activity, provider, deadline, and reporting step to your own certification record.
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Why they may be attending
BPS and ASCP share an audience with very specific credential questions. The booth is likely designed for individual guidance—eligibility, examination timing, recertification, and documentation—rather than a broad awareness pitch. Arriving with your dates and current credit record should make the exchange much more productive.
- Answer candidate questions about the geriatric pharmacy certification pathway.
- Clarify recertification timing, approved activities, documentation, and reporting.
- Help attendees distinguish BPS requirements from meeting registration and general continuing education.
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Questions worth taking with you
Given my practice experience and dates, when would I become eligible to apply for BCGP?
A specific timeline exposes any missing experience or documentation early.
Which ASCP 2026 activities can count toward my BCGP cycle, and who reports each one?
Meeting attendance alone does not resolve activity-level credit rules.
What is my recertification deadline, and how should I verify that completed credit has posted?
A confirmation step prevents last-minute record surprises.
Where do exam, application, retest, and recertification fees appear in the current official schedule?
A current source is safer than relying on an older summary.
Current official signal
Latest from Board of Pharmacy Specialties
BPS Welcomes Taylor Altidor to Renamed 2026-2027 William Ellis Executive Fellowship
BPS announces the incoming fellow and the renamed executive fellowship jointly operated with the American Pharmacists Association.
Official press-release index and organization RSS feed; individual posts may concern BPS programs beyond geriatric pharmacy.