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Pharmacy residency is education a pharmacist can pursue beyond the degree required for licensing as a pharmacist (in the United States of America: PharmD).A pharmacy residency program allows for the implementation of skill set and knowledge acquired in pharmacy school through interaction with the public either in a hospital setting or community practice.
California pharmacists can apply for Advanced Practice Pharmacist (APh) licenses from the California State Board of Pharmacy. Senate Bill 493, written by Senator Ed Hernandez, established a section on the Advanced Practice Pharmacist and outlines the definition, scope of practice, qualifications, and regulations of those holding this license. [63]
Graduated pharmacists can either move on to postgraduate studies or get employed in pharmacies, pharmaceutical industry, control of quality of medications, laboratories for researching, in nursing schools as teachers, as a clinical pharmacist, in hospitals, or pharmacist-biochemist in various laboratories.
Of the 225 questions, only 200 are used to tabulate the applicant's score. The remaining questions are "trial balloon" questions under consideration for inclusion on future NAPLEX tests. There is no way to distinguish a regular test question from a trial balloon question. [3] As of March 2024, the NAPLEX exam fee increased from $475 to $520. [4]
The median annual pay for pharmacists was $136,030 in 2023. California, Texas and New York have some of the highest pharmacist salaries. The average student loan debt for pharmacists in 2022 was ...
In California they are called advanced practice pharmacists (APh). [5] In New Mexico, they are known as Pharmacist Clinicians (PhC) [6] and lastly in Montana and North Carolina they are known as Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners (CPP). [7] Clinical pharmacists in the Veteran Administration are known as Clinical Pharmacy Specialists (CPS). [8]
California passed AB 1286, the Stop Dangerous Pharmacies Act in October. The bill requires corporate chain pharmacies to report all medication errors and provide adequate pharmacy staffing.
California Northstate University College of Pharmacy is a pharmacy school located in Elk Grove, California in the Sacramento metropolitan area. It hosted its inaugural commencement ceremony on May 19, 2012, graduating its first class of students. The current Dean is Dr. Xiaodong Feng.