I respectfully share my strong opposition to the Board’s proposal for five hours of live or real-time interactive to be part of the continuing education requirements. In my experience, live CE courses are often far too basic and do not serve to expand relevant knowledge. The only exceptions being those comprehensive live training courses such as immunization certification, dyslipidemia certification, diabetes certification, etc. which often require “home study” as well as live, and true interactive learning session(s). The variety and abundance of quality home study CE options allows a pharmacist to select coursework in an area that will benefit his/her practice and/or focus on a topic which he/she may be weak or need reinforcement. The required post-tests are valuable assessment tools to confirm knowledge and the articles/courses provide a valuable resource for future reference. Again, in my experience this is not the case with many/most live CE sessions as they often do not support level of knowledge expansion desired nor do they support retention of information or provide any detailed reference(s) for future use. While I still seek and participate in live CE courses whenever I am fortunate to attend conferences, I believe there are significant barriers to access to quality live CE such as lack of practice relevant and detailed programming, affordability, and time and travel constraints. Additionally, and unfortunately, one can look around the room during live CE sessions and see that often times some of the participants are merely in attendance rather than fully engaged in a valuable, live and interactive CE session promoting new ideas, or expanding existing knowledge.