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Hi all, I just got my certificate and I am planning to apply for the intern license. But I would like to confirm a couple of issues. is there specific requirement about internship hours done in retail and hospital pharmacies respectively? is outpatient pharmacy counted as Institutional pharmacy? can we hold both technician's license and intern license at the same time? My thanks. zzll

Hi everyone, I have a question about the internship hours that have to be finished in institutional pharmacy. California requires 1500hrs totally but I didn't find any specific explanation of the distribution of these 1500hrs. Does anyone know this? BTW, is institutional pharmacy equal to inpatient pharmacy only? Thanks in advance for your input.

Hi Everyone, I got my FPGEC and I am planning to apply for the intern license in California. Does anybody know if California allows us to have both technician and intern pharmacist license? I am asking this because I know it is hard for FPGEC to find an intern position, especially in hospital pharmacy. I am wondering if working as a technician would help. Your reply will be appreciated.

I took the April exam and passed it with 101, which surprised me. I agree that there were some absurd questions that I really wanted to say WTH when I saw them on the test day. I started reviewing CPR seriously from January 2013. I reviewed the first 18 chapters about 3 times and the last part about different diseases and treatment for 1.5 times. I skipped antibiotics and chemo-drugs simply because there are overwhelmingly too many drugs. I reviewed Manon Shroff's Management (both theory and questions) for two times or three times but found there were not as many questions as expected. Most of management questions can be answered using common sense. I reviewed Apha for FPGEE about three times and this book is REALLY helpful. However, this book doesn't cover the pharmacology part. I reviewed the Lin***'s pharmacology only once. The FPGEE secret is also helpful. It's worth a couple of hours' reviewing. I saw questions right from those sheets during the exam. To be honest, I didn't spend enough time reviewing these study materials. I spent about 1-2 hours in Jan and Feb. Starting from Mar, I found I was not well prepared so I put 5-6 hrs on Tue and Thu but still 1-2 hrs on the other days since I have to take care of my child. A couple days before taking the exam, I was prepared to take FPGEE for the second time because I knew that I didn't know enough. On the test day, I was really shocked by the questions. I was only confident about my answers of 50% of questions. I can eliminate some wrong choices of the other ~100 questions so I probably got 60%-70% of questions answered correctly. I had enough time to answer the 250 questions. I answered the first 125 questions and reviewed once and I still had ~30min left and it was the same for the 2nd part. I ended up with leaving the test center 30-45 mins earlier than expected. So timing won't be a big problem for all test-takers. In terms of chemical structures, there were probably over 10 of them. But they were not that hard. I mean a couple of them were super easy and you can find clues from the structures listed in the question and for the others I could eliminate one or two wrong choices. I am not good at medicinal chemistry and I didn't spend tons of time reviewing structures and I think that is also mission impossible to do that. In terms of calculations, it's a joke. I did spend quite some hours studying calculation-related chapters but what I encountered was 2 naive questions which had nothing to do with pharmaceutical problems. But it doesn't necessarily mean calculation questions won't show up in the future exams. At last, if I were asked to recommend study materials, I would say focusing on your CPR although I didn't do this.It covers almost everything. Even it doesn't, what it covers is more than enough to help you pass the exam. I know it is not easy to read the thick book with small font but it's REALLY VERY informative. There is no other books teaching us about disease treatment in great details like CPR. Good luck to everybody!

Hi All, I hope everyone is doing well. Now I have a question of getting notary seal on the photo and text of the application form. I tried the notary public in UPS and Chase Bank. Both told me they can't put seals on either photos or texts since it's against CA rules. So I'd like to know how applicants in CA had successfully done this. Will consular officials or First-Class Magistrate help? Thanks in advance! Best, zzll

Thanks a lot, phdlee. Now I feel much much better. Your answers really help! I had read the part you referred to. But I was then completely confused by the requirement of translation. So I guess the stamps/seals are unnecessary to be translated neither, right? Can I send the official documents to ECE from USA rather than my university? By the way, I am also in California. Was it hard for you to find internship both in community and institutional pharmacy? Was there specific time requirement for each? Thanks again. Best, zzll

Hi everyone, I hope you all are doing well. I am about to start ECE evaluation but I am still not clear about the NABP requirement on the translation of non-English documents. It is stated in the application bulletin that "The translator must provide an attestation statement regarding the accuracy of each translation. Proof of the translator's credentials must accompany each translation. " I'd like to know what the officer in the university that issued my degree should do. What should the officer write down specifically in term of this attestation statement? What is the proof of the translator's credential? Your help will be highly appreciated.