The NABP (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy) held a taskforce to discuss their continued use of the TOEFL iBT as a requirement for foreign-trained pharmacists seeking to practice in the USA. I’ve attached a photo from their social media here just to show how this was a pretty big deal. This was clearly not a formality or a rubber stamp sort of thing.
Notably, the task force was called for before ETS announced changes to the test. One hopes that the changes were added to the agenda at some point. Indeed, the NABP’s current TOEFL cut scores (introduced only in October) will soon be obsolete. They’ll need to issue new ones… and pretty soon.
I’ll be keeping an eye on this, of course. I asked when we can expect to see the task force’s report, and was told it would be made public “in several months.”
