Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a)
For purposes of Business and Professions Code section
4210,
subdivision (a)(2)(A), general clinical pharmacy practice is among the relevant
areas of practice for which certification may be earned.
(b) For a pharmacist seeking to demonstrate
certification in general clinical pharmacy as a criterion for advanced practice
pharmacist licensure by the board, the certification may be earned from an
organization recognized as a continuing education provider by the Accreditation
Council for Pharmacy Education or accredited by the National Commission for
Certifying Agencies as a certification provider, so long as:
(1) The certification program includes
specified learning objectives in at least five sequentially-ordered education
modules, covering the following topics: performing patient assessments;
ordering and interpreting drug therapy-related tests; referring patients to
other health care providers; participating in the evaluation and management of
diseases and health conditions in collaboration with other health care
providers; and initiating, adjusting, modifying or discontinuing drug
therapy;
(2) The certification
program requires assessment after completion of each of the education modules
in an examination format or by other assessment methodology that confirms the
participant's understanding, knowledge, and application of the specified
learning objectives for the module, where any failure to successfully complete
the assessment in any module prevents advancement to the next module;
(3) The certification program requires that
instruction and assessments in each of the modules are developed and provided
by either:
(A) An advanced practice pharmacist
licensed by the board or
(B) An
expert with experience in the respective area(s) of focus specified in
subparagraph (1), where "expert" means a person who qualifies to teach at a
school of pharmacy recognized by the board.
(4) The certification program requires that,
upon successful completion of all modules and their respective assessments,
each participant shall earn a passing score on a final overall assessment
before being awarded certification. The assessment shall be either a final
written examination or an objective structured clinical examination developed
and administered in collaboration with an accredited school of pharmacy
recognized by the board; and
(5)
The certification program require(s) a minimum of ten hours of continuing
education on the topics identified in (b)(1) every two years to maintain
certification.
1. New section
filed 8-10-2016; operative 8-10-2016 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register 2016, No. 33).
2. Relocation of section
1730.2 from former article 3 to
new article 3.5 filed 12-13-2016; operative 12-13-2016 pursuant to Government
Code section
11343.4(b)(3)
(Register 2016, No. 51).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
4005
and
4210,
Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections
4052.6,
4210
and
4233,
Business and Professions Code.
