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Background: As the demands of pharmacist's role and quality performance have increased, the verification of pharmacist's abilityhas been required. In this study, we aimed to select appropriate items for assessment of pharmacist’s knowledge, attitude andperformance. Methods: Based on the pharmacist job analysis, we selected duties and tasks in consideration of applying pharmacypractical examination through brainstorming of internal researchers and group discussion with experts. Survey was conducted toevaluate the tasks according to the criteria detailed below: Realistic, Understandable, Measurable, Behavioral and Achievable(RUMBA). The subjects included professors at colleges of pharmacy and instructors of institutional or community pharmacy settings. Results: Nine duties including 41 tasks were drawn for the survey through primary internal researchers. Of the 90 respondents,95.6% were professors or preceptors who was engaged in practical training, and 62.2% had more than five years of practicalexperience. As a result of survey and discussion with expert panel, selected seven duties were selected as followings: ‘Patient(customer) reception’, ‘Drug preparation and distribution’, ‘Patient care’, ‘Administration’, ‘Patient counseling’, ‘Non-prescriptionmedication counseling’, and ‘Provision of drug information’. The final 20 tasks from seven duties were chosen to assess skills thata pharmacist should be able to perform. Conclusion: This is the first study to select the items that can be included in pharmacistpractical examination in the future, based on the RUMBA criteria. As a next step, it is necessary to study how to implememt these items.