The Announcement

NAPLEX, Georgia MPJE exams suspended indefinitely


No reinstatement date set after NABP acts to ensure integrity of gateways to licensure.
As a result of the August 25 suspension of the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) and Georgia Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (GA MPJE) by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), recent graduates are caught in an awkward and unprecedented position. The action came on the heels of an August 23 emergency meeting of the NABP executive committee to review the security of the examinations. No reinstatement date has been set.

NABP noted in a memo sent to state boards of pharmacy that its decision to discontinue the NAPLEX and GA MPJE was to ensure that the "integrity of the examinations is maintained" and to supply state boards of pharmacy with "only valid and psychometrically sound examinations."

When contacted by Pharmacy Today, NABP declined to comment on reports that United States' Marshals seized computers and other materials at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and the home of one of its faculty members. The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy also declined to comment on the reports, and U.S. Marshal Theresa A. Rodgers of the Middle District of Georgia was unavailable for comment at the time this article was written.