Pharmacy Education 2027 Submission FAQs

Pharmacy Education 2027 educational programming will feature 60-minute Conversation World Cafés, 60-minute sessions (formerly special sessions), and 30-minute sessions (formerly mini-sessions).

• 60 Minute Conversation World Cafés: Each café will now consist of 60 minutes of facilitated discussion on hot topics in pharmacy education. 
  • Sessions will include a brief presentation of up to 20 minutes, 30 minutes of rotating table discussions, and a 10-minute Q&A and wrap-up. 
  • Each Conversation World Café session is limited to two facilitators.
• 60-minute Sessions are presentations that address topics broadly applicable to contemporary pharmacy education and align with the educational tracks identified for the 2027 annual meeting. 
  • Each 60-minute session is limited to 5 speakers, including moderators, if applicable. 
• 30-minute Sessions are presentations that align with an educational track, and which typically describe innovations or a developed initiative at one school. 
  • Each 30-minute session is limited to two speakers, including a moderator, if applicable. Active learning exercises beyond a brief Q&A are not required for 30-minute sessions.

*No interactive workshops will be offered during the 2027 Annual Meeting. However, presenters are encouraged to design their 60-minute sessions to include interactive exercises that promote audience engagement beyond standard Q&A, think-pair-share, and table discussions.

Yes, there have been several changes. 

• The first is that education at the 2027 meeting will be offered in 9 different tracks. Submissions should align with a track in addition to an affinity area. 
• Due to the limited amount of time allotted, presenters are no longer required to incorporate active engagement exercises beyond Q&A in their 30-minute sessions. Sessions may be presented in a didactic format with a question-and-answer component. 30-minute sessions with CE credit may use Q&A as an acceptable active learning method. 

Submitters should develop their programs to address content in one of nine areas or tracks. The tracks selected for Pharmacy Education 2027 include:

1. Curricular Design and Delivery: Presentations that focus on curricular or co-curricular innovation and delivery

2. Student Development and Services: Presentations that focus on recruitment, student pharmacists’ professional identity formation, management of academic and wellness issues, and other aspects of serving student pharmacists

3. Assessment Strategies and Execution: Presentations that focus on program or programmatic assessment design, and accreditation readiness

4. Basic and Pharmaceutical Sciences: Presentations on education and/or research topics related to the biological and molecular basis of disease, and drug discovery & development and advanced delivery systems

5. Experiential Learning and Operations: Presentations that focus on IPPEs or APPEs, preceptor development, or operational delivery of experiential education

6. Pharmacy Practice and Practice Transformation: Presentations that focus on implementation science, advancing pharmacy practice, and practice transformation

7. Operations and Administration: Presentations that focus on structure, business, finance, facilities, human resources, and safety issues relevant to schools and colleges of pharmacy 

8. Faculty Career Development and Leadership: Presentations that focus on faculty career development, professional advancement, and leadership skills.

9. Professional Staff Career Development and Leadership: Presentations that focus on staff career development, professional advancement, and leadership skills.

Note, each track represents the primary content area and objectives of the session, not the speakers' roles and areas of expertise. All presentations within each track should focus on improvements that will move education forward in the future. 

The program committee encourages submitters to develop proposals that align with one of the nine available tracks and involve the following hot topics:

• Innovative Financial Revenue Streams or Revenue Diversification

• Maximizing Staff and Faculty Opportunities and Resources

• Student Admissions or Recruitment Pathways

• Preparing Students for Scientist Pathways: Research track, Dual degree, Pharmaceutical industry, Government affairs, PhD programs

To decide what type of program to submit, first decide in which track your program fit and the intended audience(s). Next, decide on the scope and length of the presentation.

• Shorter presentations focused on innovations or smaller scope initiatives align with a 30-minute session. 
• All other sessions should align with one of the two 60-minute session types
  • Discussion-focused sessions on emerging or provocative topics align with a Conversation World Café presentation.
  • Sessions that are more dissemination focused with less than half of the time dedicated to audience participation should submit for the 60-Minute Session category.

Annual Meeting programming proposals must be submitted through Cadmium’s Abstract Scorecard. A link to the submission site is available on the AACP Annual Meeting Submission Information webpage. Please carefully read the Call for Proposals on the Submission Information webpage before proceeding to the submission site. It is recommended that all submitters review the guidelines and are apprised of the criteria by which their submissions will be evaluated.

The Abstract Scorecard is integrated with the AACP association management software, ProTech. AACP members will need to use their AACP email and password to login to the Abstract Scorecard. Individuals who are not members of AACP will not be able to login to the site to submit programming proposals; however, they may serve as speakers and/or moderators for annual meeting sessions.

 All Pharmacy Education 2027 programming proposals must be submitted by Monday, November 16, 2026, at 11:59 PST.

Yes, submitters will receive a confirmation email from “education@aacp.org” after they have successfully submitted a programming proposal for the Annual Meeting. 

In an effort to further attract a diverse pool of high-quality submissions and ensure a diverse range of presentation topics and perspectives, the program committee has set a limit of three (3) programming submissions per individual. 

• Please note, this applies to all submissions, 30-minute sessions, 60-minute sessions, and Conversation World Cafes, across the different tracks in which the individual is involved as a speaker, moderator, chair, or submitter. 
• An individual may NOT be included on additional proposals, regardless of their role. Additionally, if an individual's 30-minute or 60-minute session is selected by a Section or SIG, that also counts toward the three maximum number of submissions. 

Yes, you will be able to edit a proposal that you submitted. Note, if changes are made after you submitted the proposal, the status of that proposal will change from "complete" to "active" in the Abstract Scorecard. Submitters will need to save their edits and click on the "Submit" button to complete and resubmit their proposals.

Submitters will not be able to make any changes to their proposals directly in the Abstract Scorecard after Monday, November 16. Submitters whose proposals are accepted will have the opportunity to review their session details for accuracy and make edits as needed.

No, all tasks must be completed to submit a proposal. Tasks are used to collect different program information from the submitter, such as speaker list, program description, learning objectives, room set-up preferences, etc. Submitters are more than welcome to login to the site at a later time to complete the tasks. All tasks must be completed by the submission deadline.

Due to the limited time allotted, 30-minute sessions can have a maximum of two speakers (including any moderator, if applicable).

Whereas the 60-minute “special sessions” are limited to five speakers, the conversation world cafés and 30-minute sessions are limited to two presenters. Note that this limit includes all individuals who are involved in the program, including any moderators. 

Submitters are asked to list the names of all speakers in their program proposals. AACP understands that on occasion, session speakers may change due to scheduling conflicts and/or other priorities. Please inform AACP of speaker changes after you have been notified of such changes. 

All members are invited to submit programming proposals for the 30-minute sessions, 60-minute sessions, and Conversation World Cafés during the Call for Proposals period.  All completed submissions that are submitted by the deadline will be reviewed by the program committee in late November through December.

The submission reviewer reports for the 60-minute sessions and the 30-minute sessions will be shared with the SIG and Section leadership in early-mid January. The reports will include the full program information (including speaker/submitter names and institutions), as well as the scores and comments provided by the program committee reviewers.

Each SIG will be allowed to select 1 sixty-minute session or 2 thirty-minute sessions for their groups and each Section will be able to select up to 2 sixty-minute sessions or up to 4 thirty-minute sessions. 

In addition to making their selections, SIG and Section leadership will be asked to rank the relevance of other programming proposals that align with their content areas. This feedback will be shared with the full Annual Meeting program committee to help guide the selection of programming that is relevant to the meeting’s audiences. The program committee will convene in early February to select the remaining sessions for the Annual Meeting.

All submitters will be notified about the status of their proposal ("accepted" or "rejected") in mid-February.

All Sections and Special Interest Group members are encouraged to submit annual meeting programming proposals through the regular submission process and by the deadline indicated in the 2027 Annual Meeting Call for Proposals.

Only the 60-minute sessions and the 30-minute sessions can be designated as SIG and Section programming. A SIG may choose to select one 60-minute session or up to two 30-minute sessions for their programming. A Section may choose to select two 60-minute sessions or up to four 30-minute sessions for their programming. 

Each proposal will be reviewed by three program committee members using a set of criteria that include program purpose, process, generalizability, structure, etc. Please refer to the evaluation criteria for each respective session type.  

Each proposal will be given a numerical score and an average based on the total scores given by the three reviewers. To ensure that proposals are rated fairly, the names of the submitters and presenters will be hidden during the review process.

During the program committee selection process in early February, highly ranked proposals will be grouped by track. The program committee will select multiple proposals from each track, and if applicable, proposals in each category within a track. Submitter and speaker information, such as names and institutions, will be visible to the full program committee during the selection process. In making its decision, the committee will strive to ensure diversity of topics for the different audiences in the Academy, diversity of topics overall, to minimize any redundancy in topics covered at the Annual Meeting, and an adequate representation from a diverse group of speakers and institutions.

The programming selection process is complex. Unfortunately, strong proposals may be rejected for various reasons. The committee must consider various elements when making their decisions, including availability of rooms at the conference venue, availability of space within the program schedule, and the diversity of topics, speakers, and institutions reflected in the annual meeting programming. The committee may also consider whether similar programming was offered at prior annual meetings among other factors.

Recognizing the need to accommodate more high-quality proposals, the program committee is working on developing alternative mechanisms for members to share their work across the Academy. Submitters should indicate their willingness to be considered for a future in-person or virtual (recorded) event or share any content on AACP’s digital platforms (e.g., learning management system, website) when completing the submission form.

Please review the instructions, guidelines, and evaluation criteria prior to drafting your proposal. Consider the elements within each criterion and be sure that your proposal fully addresses the descriptors for each criterion. Avoid the following common pitfalls:

• Incomplete or insufficient detail in the proposal.
• The takeaways for attendees are not clearly specified.
• The data or information included in the proposal is outdated.
• The learning objectives cannot be accomplished within the time allotted for the session.
• The submitter relies on standard methods such as think-pair-share and group discussions for audience engagement.
• The submitter does not clearly explain the development process for the proposal or does not articulate how each presenter contributes to the program.
• The submission is based on content/material presented at past annual meetings and fails to demonstrate how the proposed session would advance current practice or add to the current body of knowledge.