Response to PCOA Letters to the Editor

To the Editor: The purpose of our review1 was to neither promulgate nor suppress the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment (PCOA) examination but rather to review available data and inform the Academy. We appreciate the authors’ rigorous and spirited defense of the examination and explicit scrutiny of the precise language used within the review. We do not disagree with many of the assertions made by Davis and Incrocci and, in fact, contend that most of these clarifications actually represent what is stated in the text of the manuscript. Of note, the manuscript was authored in late 2015 before the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) conducted the aforementioned survey and when only a previous version of the registration/administration guide was available by website