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INTRODUCTION The attention to experiential education within the academic pharmacy and professional practice communities has increased dramatically in recent years. Some of the added attention has been in response to changes in accreditation requirements as promulgated by the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education (ACPE) in the Accreditation Standards and Guidelines for the Professional Program in Pharmacy Leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree. There has also been an increased demand for quality experiential education in all practice settings due to the emergence of newacademic pharmacy programs, as well as the expansion of existing programs. Recognizing that substantive dialogue was needed the 2005 Summit to Advance Experiential Education, was convened by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) with the purpose of bringing together stakeholders from the practice, regulatory, and education communities to identify strategies and develop resources to increase the capacity and enhance the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of experiential education in pharmacy. Outputs from the 2005 Summit have included an online annotated library of resources and the Advanced Practice Experience Site Profiling System. The profiling system is a toolkit for experiential directors to identify, document, and profile models of exemplary experiential education practice site partnerships that they use in their professional programs. This profiling system has been further used to nominate and select the 2007 and 2008 recipients of the AACP Crystal APPLE (Academic Practice Partnerships forLearningExcellence) Award, which is presented each year to 8 national academic-practice partnerships in experiential education.