Department of Consumer Affairs Board of Pharmacy

Pharmacist Licensure Examinations

Recently the Board of Pharmacy updated its Pharmacist Examination and Licensure Application, Intern Hours Affidavit form (17A-29), and Verification of Licensure in Another State form (17A.16). 

Please note that the intern hours requirements in California remain unchanged. All applicants for the pharmacist licensure examination must complete 1,500 hours of pharmacy practice experience or have been licensed as a pharmacist in another state for at least one year as specified in Business and Professions Code section 4209.

Applicants must submit proof of their intern experience on the Intern Hours Affidavit form (17A-29). An applicant for the examination, who has been licensed as a pharmacist in any state for at least one year, as certified by the licensing agency of that state, may submit this certification to satisfy the required 1,500 hours of intern experience on the Verification of Licensure in Another State form (17A-16). 

The board is no longer accepting intern hour transfers by another state licensing entity. The applicant must submit the board-approved Intern Hours Affidavit form (17A-29) documenting the 1,500 hours of pharmacy practice experience with their application. Business and Professions Code section 4209(b) specifies “An intern pharmacist shall submit proof of his or her experience on board-approved affidavits, or another form specified by the board,which shall be certified under penalty of perjury by a pharmacist under whose supervision such experience was obtained or by the pharmacist-in-charge at the pharmacy while the pharmacist intern obtained the experience.”


General Information
Applications
Study
Examination

Watch for More Information to Come Soon!