Alabama Administrative Code › Title 680 - ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY › Chapter 680-X-2 - PRACTICE OF PHARMACY › Section 680-X-2-.16 - Practical Training Programs Standards

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) The practical training experience
			 required prior to licensure shall be referred to as
			 externship/internship.
(2) All
			 interns/externs shall apply for a permit with the Alabama State Board of
			 Pharmacy. The permit shall expire on December 31 of odd numbered years. Initial
			 permit fee and renewal fee shall be fifty dollars ($50). All interns/externs
			 shall pay the renewal fee biennially with this fee being due on October 31 and
			 delinquent after December 31 of odd numbered years. If any intern/extern shall
			 fail to pay a renewal fee on or before December 31 of any year, such
			 registration shall become null and void.
(3) An extern/intern permit shall be limited
			 to those persons who are actively engaged in meeting the academic or practical
			 experience requirements for licensure examination. In order to be considered
			 enrolled in a school of pharmacy, a person shall not be absent from school for
			 more than two (2) consecutive semesters or three (3) consecutive quarters. Any
			 person, working as an extern/intern, must obtain a permit from the Board before
			 assuming duties in a pharmacy.
(4)
			 In addition to all other statutory requirements for the issuance of a permit,
			 upon initial application, the applicant shall consent to and be subject to a
			 Board approved criminal background check, the cost of which to be paid by the
			 applicant. The information received as a result of the background check shall
			 be relied upon in determining whether the applicant meet the applicable
			 qualifications to obtain the referenced permit.
(5) The minimum externship/internship
			 required for licensure shall be fifteen hundred (1500) hours. This may be
			 obtained through a college-structured program or through a nonstructured
			 program, all under the supervision of a registered preceptor. Four hundred
			 (400) hours of the minimum total requirement may become attainable after
			 completing the requirements of the second professional year. The four hundred
			 (400) hours must be completed in a traditional pharmacy setting, with a Board
			 approved preceptor, so that the emphasis is on the distribution of medicines,
			 prescriptions and medical supplies. Externs/Interns shall submit to the Board
			 of Pharmacy adequate documentation demonstrating compliance with the
			 traditional hour requirements of this section. The School of Pharmacy shall
			 certify that the intern has completed 1100 hours of internship plus any
			 traditional hours gained during school rotations. The Board will accept hours
			 from preceptors approved by the School of Pharmacy for the training of their
			 students as part of the curriculum. The applicable School of Pharmacy shall
			 furnish the certification of completion of required hours to the
			 Board.
(6) An applicant for
			 licensure, lacking the minimum 1500 hours in the manner stated, may be admitted
			 to the examination only if all the requirements of Section
			 34-23-51 are met other than the
			 requirement of practical pharmacy training. Those applicants, so admitted, who
			 pass the examination required by the Board shall be required to file affidavits
			 attesting to the prescribed practical training program prior to being issued a
			 license to practice pharmacy.
(7)
			 Externship/Internship may be acquired only under the supervision of a preceptor
			 who may supervise no more than three (3) externs/interns at any one
			 time.
(8) The term supervision
			 shall mean that at the site where externship/internship is being obtained, the
			 preceptor shall be in personal contact with and actually giving professional
			 instructions to the extern/intern during the entire period of such
			 externship/internship. At all times, a person, who is serving an
			 externship/internship, must be under the immediate direct supervision of a
			 registered pharmacist on the premises.
(9) All candidates for licensure, who are
			 working either as externs or interns, outside of the school curriculum, shall
			 report their place of employment and/or practice site to the Board of Pharmacy
			 within ten (10) days of such employment. Any change in such employment or
			 practice site shall be reported to the Board within ten (10) days of the
			 change.
(10) A pharmacy
			 extern/intern, having served part or all of his/her required time in a site
			 outside of this state and not as part of their school curriculum, shall be
			 given credit provided the externship/internship requirements for the other
			 state are no less than the requirements of the Alabama State Board of
			 Pharmacy.
(11) The School of
			 Pharmacy shall notify the Board within ten (10) days of a student's change of
			 status.
Author:
Donna C. Yeatman, R.Ph., Executive
				  Secretary
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §
										34-23-92.