• Postgraduate Year (PGY) Pharmacists

• Clinical Preceptors in Teaching Hospitals

In alignment with global shifts in medical education, the Department of Pharmacy at MacKay Memorial Hospital has pioneered the advancement of Competency-Based Pharmacy Education (CBPE) in Taiwan. This initiative establishes rigorous clinical milestones and Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) tailored for postgraduate year (PGY) training. By integrating digital portfolios with data visualization analytics, the program precisely monitors learning trajectories, empowering the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC) to ensure robust competency progression and quality control. Beyond fortifying core competencies and patient safety, the program has disseminated its successful model to teaching hospitals nationwide, driving systemic innovation in pharmacy education and fulfilling MacKay’s social responsibility as a national leader in healthcare excellence.

• Taiwan’s first CBPE framework integrating EPAs and Milestones

• Observable and assessable competency roadmap for PGY pharmacists

• Digital learning portfolio with Power BI–based visualization

• Implementation of CCC for systematic competency tracking

• Nationwide faculty development with high scalability and transferability

• Over 100 PGY pharmacists trained at MacKay Memorial Hospital.

• 15 national pharmacy consensuses.

• 13 national CBPE seed workshops.

• Achieved 100% inclusion and execution rates for PGY pharmacists at MacKay Memorial Hospital.

• Established a comprehensive training and assessment framework: 6 core competencies, 15 sub-competencies, 143 learning milestones, and 8 core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs).

• Trained over 800 national CBPE preceptors

• CCC conducts regular summative assessments for early identification of underperforming trainees.

• Establish entrustment thresholds to ensure patient safety, effectively reducing dispensing errors, enhancing medication review accuracy, and strengthening Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting.

• Trainee satisfaction with the training course: 4.7

• Trainee satisfaction with clinical preceptors: 4.82

• Overall satisfaction with the national CBPE consensus: 5

• National preceptors training satisfaction rate: over 95%

• Asia's 1st national Milestones.

• Published 3 academic papers.

• Over 9 presentations of research results at national and international conferences.

• Over 80 cross-institutional experience sharing.

• Established unified national training standards for PGY pharmacists.

• Strengthened medication safety and healthcare quality for patients.