Please do not mandate that 5 hours of live or real-time interactive CE to be part of the annual requirements to maintain pharmacist licensure.  If live CE is non-negotioable please consider reducing the number of hours. 

Live CE does not meet the needs or wants or the majority of Virginia pharmacists.  Instead, it caters to the visions of a few.  Please provide evidence that live CE enhances the practice of every day pharmacists in retail pharmacy or non-academic hospital-based settings.

In my experience live CE is not as useful as high quality, self-study CE activities.  I do believe that pharmacists have the option of choosing easier activities that may not enhance their knowledge to the degree that the BOP desires.  Surely this can be addressed in a less exspensive and time consuming manner.