How did your School of Pharmacy do on the NAPLEX and MPJE?
The NAPLEX used to be something a student might fail on a bad day, but that is no longer the case, as close to one in four students who graduated in 2023 had to retake it.
Pile on a similar one-in-four chance to fail the MPJE for those outside of Idaho, and you create a disaster for students with student loans who can't work as a pharmacist as they can't earn their license.
You can check how your College of Pharmacy did here:
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Should licensing pass rates influence resident selection?
With NAPLEX pass percentage rates ranging from the 40s and averaging in the high 70s and MPJE scores ranging from the 20s and averaging in the mid-70s, should residency directors give preference to students coming from schools with higher test scores?
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The RPD position, while revered, also carries great responsibility. Can an RPD reasonably choose a group of candidates from a school with less than a 50% chance of passing the NAPLEX and MPJE?
Remember statistics, these are independent events, a .5 x .5 = .25.
Residents who fail the NAPLEX or MPJE cause undue strain on other residents and staff who have to pick up the work they cannot do and the department may lose the residency spots altogether.
While I have a pharmacology course that can help get students back on track a little with the NAPLEX
I think TLDRPharmacy's MPJE materials are outstanding and always up to date
You can email if you want some of my thoughts, but honestly, I believe this is a shared responsibility where students may start their study too late in the APPE season and colleges allowing a greater than 85% admission rate can make changes to turn this ship around.
Great points, Tony. Board pass rates are definitely on the minds of all RPDs and not only for the new COPs. It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation between pass rates from COPs with an academic med ctr anchor for APPEs vs COPs that use only non-academic community hospitals for APPEs?
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8 个月Apparently as of February, Michigan no longer requires the MPJE. You just have to sign an attestation that you know the law well enough to practice.