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Originally Posted by knok
I passed FPGEE since June 2003. At that time, there were many states that did not require a FPGEC certificate to work as an Intern, including CA. FL required only 500 Internship hours and no FPGEC certificate at all. Many states do not require the FPGEC certificate. Some of them waived FPGEC certificate for foreign graduates so that they could sit for NAPLEX and receive pharmacy licenses. Later on, many people could not pass TSE or TOEFL iBT, they moved to those states. Right now, there are many states that do not require the FPGEC certificate to work as an an Intern but not as many as a couple of years back.
However, at the end, you must get this certificate to take NAPLEX. It is complicated. I know that many people are licensed as Pharmacists in other states but they cannot move because of family reason.
One of my friends moved to FL. He has greencard. I talked to him yesterday that he was so busy with his horrible work schedules that he decided to send his two children back home to study in my home country because he was not satisfied with quality of school near where he worked, which is located in remote area here. He sent his children to a better quality school in my home country and has his extended family members take care of his children.
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But you still can not take Naplex in any state you were previously an intern? Right? And for what reason, not having an FPGEC certificate because of not having completed the requirement for certification.
What happens to your intern licenses? I know it's good for 2 years and have a chance to renew it but you can not forever be an intern. I know some state that will give only one chance to renew the intern license and complete the requirement to be eligible for Naplex and pass it within that period otherwise, the intern license can not be renewed anymore.
You will need to reaaply again once your requirement is complete.
One more thing, rules are changing in most state. I know somebody who is a foreign graduate, already working as a pharmacist in New York but since the rules and regulation of New York Board of Pharmacy has changed as a foreign graduate his pharmacist licensed was stopped and has to take the process of being accepted to sit for FPGEE, the whole 9 yards and when he completed the requirements he was able to get back his pharmacist licensed.