1. (A) An intern shall notify the Board of Pharmacy within ten days after the beginning and again within ten days after the ending of each and every calendar year, if the intern is employed, and within ten days after the beginning of each new employment and within ten days after the ending of each employment, on forms provided by the board, of the identity of the internship site and of the designated pharmacist. This form must be certified by the designated pharmacist. The pharmacy intern is responsible for the submission of the appropriate forms within the time limits as set.
2. (B) An intern may gain practical experience toward licensure as a pharmacist in accordance with this section and as may otherwise be required by this chapter.
3. (C) Where practical experience is gained in a pharmacy, other site, or program located outside of the State, the board has the discretion to determine whether such experience meets the requirements of the board. The applicant shall submit from the secretary of the Board of Pharmacy of the state in which practical experience was gained certification of the validity of the supervising pharmacist's license and the pharmacy permit.
4. (D) A minimum of five hundred hours of practical experience must be obtained in a retail or institutional pharmacy. Approval of all experience gained is left to the discretion of the board after receiving a description of the experience by the intern and the designated pharmacist.
5. (E) Students enrolled in an approved program leading to a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy may receive practical experience credit for up to five hundred hours for participation in an externship program upon completion of the program. Hours earned must be certified by the college of pharmacy, none of which may be used to fulfill the requirement in subsection (D).
6. (F) Students enrolled in an approved doctor of pharmacy program consisting of six or more years of collegiate studies may receive practical experience credit for up to one thousand hours for practice related experiences upon completion of such program, the number of hours certified by the college of pharmacy, none of which shall be used to fulfill the requirements in subsection (D).

7. (G) A pharmacy, site, or program offering interns/externs practical experience toward licensure as a pharmacist shall conform to the best traditions of pharmacy, shall have available all necessary reference books, in addition to the official standards and current professional journals and periodicals, and must be operated at all times under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist as required by law. The designated pharmacist must signify willingness to train interns/externs desiring to obtain practical experience in accordance with this chapter. The pharmacy at which an intern/extern is being trained shall provide an environment that is conducive to the learning of the practice of pharmacy by an intern/extern. It is expected that the intern/extern will be exposed to all facets of the practice of pharmacy in that setting including, but not limited to:

   1. (1) evaluation of prescription drug orders;
   2. (2) preparation and labeling of drugs;
   3. (3) dispensing of drugs;
   4. (4) patient profile update and review;
   5. (5) drug use review;
   6. (6) patient counseling; and
   7. (7) proper and safe storage of drugs.
8. (H) No more than forty hours per week of internship training may be allowed.

HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 366, SECTION 1; 1999 Act No. 76, SECTIONS 6 to 12; 2000 Act No. 340, SECTIONS 4, 9 and 10; 2002 Act No. 314, SECTIONS 5, 6, 7; 2002 Act No. 356, SECTION 1, Part II.H(3); 2004 Act No. 251, SECTION 1; 2005 Act No. 18, SECTION 1; 2007 Act No. 49, SECTION 3.B; 2008 Act No. 353, SECTION 2, Part 4.A; 2017 Act No. 11 (H.3438), SECTION 5, eff April 24, 2017; 2017 Act No. 91 (H.3824), SECTIONS 11, 14, eff May 19, 2017; 2018 Act No. 143 (H.3926), SECTION 2, eff March 20, 2018; 2019 Act No. 38 (S.463), SECTION 1, eff May 13, 2019; 2020 Act No. 117 (S.16), SECTION 1, eff March 24, 2020; 2024 Act No. 132 (H.3592), SECTION 2, eff May 13, 2024.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the amendments to SECTION 40-43-86(B)(4)(b) by 2017 Act No. 11, SECTION 5, and 2017 Act No. 91, SECTION 11, were read together.

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, an incorrect reference to a subsection in Section 40-43-30 was removed.

Effect of Amendment

2017 Act No. 11, SECTION 5, in (B)(4)(b), changed the section reference at the end from 40-43-30(14) to 40-43-30(15); and rewrote (H), addressing labeling, prescriber notification, and other requirements applicable to interchangeable biological products.

2017 Act No. 91, SECTION 11, amended (B)(4)(b), prohibiting pharmacists from supervising more than four pharmacy technicians.

2017 Act No. 91, SECTION 14, amended (P), providing for emergency refills.

2018 Act No. 143, SECTION 2, rewrote (CC), revising minimum good compounding practices, providing a means for determining the maximum beyond-use date of an excess amount of a specific compound in certain circumstances, and providing other requirements relating to compounding pharmacies.

2019 Act No. 38, SECTION 1, added (GG).

2020 Act No. 117, SECTION 1, in (P), substituted "fourteen-day" for "ten-day", in (3), substituted "fourteen" for "ten", in (5), substituted "fourteen-day" for "ten-day", and added the undesignated paragraph following (5).

2024 Act No. 132, SECTION 2, rewrote the section, revising the requirements for compounding pharmacies.