[yashak]

Hi Knok,

I don't see any problem of going public. However, we should know beforehand what can we achieve by going public? What would be the next step if going public doesn't achieve what we expect?

If we all agree though, I would like to raise the following points and happy to discuss other alternatives. First, we need to exhaust all the options with NABP. We have to try to get a written response about their opinion to our concern. As Knok informed us, she got a cofirmation that the letter she has sent already been accepted by the NABP. If they fail to respond, we(representative of the group) can go to the office in person and ask about the status of the letter sent to NABP from our group. If they have no response to our quest, that is a good reason for us to go to the next step.

Our next step should be identifying key advocates of pharmacy shortage and overworked US pharmacists concern and approaching them about the injustice perpetrated by the NABP against foreign pharmacy graduates by setting up a requirement that can't be met by majority of the candidates who are sitting for FPGEE and preventing them from contributing to the health care needs of the country.

Based on the outcome of this campaign, we can plan our next step. In the meantime, we can organize a chapter organization in each state for foreign pharmacists and plan to have a national organization that can have a legal represntation to deal with NABP or any other entity.

Best regards,

Yashak
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