North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
Chapter 46 - PHARMACY
Section .2200 - CONTINUING EDUCATION
Section 46 .2201 - HOURS: RECORDS: PROVIDERS: CORRESPONDENCE: RECIPROCITY
Current through Register Vol. 38, No. 18, March 15, 2024
(a) As a condition of license renewal, a pharmacist shall accumulate 15 hours of continuing education annually.
(b) Five of these continuing education hours shall be obtained through contact programs. Contact programs are those in which there is an opportunity for live two-way communication between the presenter and attendee. An online continuing education course may satisfy this contact-hour requirement provided that the continuing education course includes live two-way communication between the presenter and attendee.
(c) A pharmacist shall preserve all continuing education records for three years. If a continuing education provider approved in Paragraph (e) of this Rule maintains an electronic database of all pharmacists granted continuing education credits accredited by the provider, then the storage of that information in the provider's database shall be deemed to satisfy the pharmacist's recordkeeping requirement.
(d) Upon license renewal, the pharmacist shall report continuing education hours through the Board's online license renewal portal. The Board may require a pharmacist to submit records, reports of accredited hours and certificates of credit on a random basis pursuant to a continuing education audit.
(e) All continuing education shall be obtained through continuing education courses accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education or the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. Pharmacists may also acquire five hours continuing education credit for precepting, for at least 160 hours, a student enrolled in the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Wingate University School of Pharmacy, or the High Point University Fred Wilson School of Pharmacy as part of these schools' academic program.
(f) A pharmacist shall be exempt from the requirements of this Rule if:
(g) Continuing education shall not serve as a barrier to reciprocity; however, all licensees by reciprocity must observe the continuing education standards specified in Paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of this Rule within the first renewal period after licensure in this state.
Authority
G.S.
90-85.6;
90-85.17;
90-85.18;
Eff. January
1, 1985;
Amended Eff. January 1, 2008; April 1, 2005; August 1,
2004; August 1, 1998; September 1, 1993; May 1, 1989;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. October 3, 2017;
Amended Eff.
January 1, 2018.