Board internship warning
September 4, 2015
The Pharmacy Board of Australia
has issued a communiqué
reminding intern pharmacists and
preceptors of the requirements for
supervised practice.
According to the Supervised
Practice Registration Standard,
intern pharmacists must undertake
a total of 1,824 hours of Board
approved supervised practice -
but over the 12 months to 30 Jun
2015 there were 16 applicants
for general registration “who did
not seek the Board’s approval
of their supervised practice and
therefore had not complied with
the Standard”.
This omission put them at risk
of not meeting the requirements
for general registration, with the
Board confirming that graduates must hold provisional registration
and obtain Board approval of
supervised practice arrangements
before commencing internships and
enrolling in a training program.
The Communiqué details other
discussions during the Board’s
most recent meeting in Melbourne
on 21 Aug, during which outgoing
board members Stephen Marty, Ian
Huett, Gerard McInerney and John
Finlay were recognised for their
contributions.
New Board members from 31
Aug are practitioners Joy Hewitt
(Vic), Mark Kirschbaum (Tas) &
Laurence (Ben) Wilkins (NSW) plus
community member Michael Piu.
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