Anyone graduate in PA and have issues getting licensed in another state? (harrowing, please read)

[trailerpark]

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I just graduated in PA an I'm trying to get licensed in Minnesota which requires 1600 intern hours. I did 1640 through my school program and 300 on my own at my intern job. PA's board will only accept 750 hours from my school plus my outside hours. I asked LECOM and they said they could certify all my hours directly to an out of state board and to just get the form on Minnesota's webpage. I couldn't find it and called and the lady just said they get the hours directly from other state boards and to just request PA to send them my hours.

So I tried to explain about the PA board would only have 750 of my school hours and I need all 1640 of them to count and she's like "we'll take all your hours, we get them from the board" so I tried to clarify the 750 law and I don't think she was familiar with it at all. The she said I should get an affidavit from my school and send it with my application so the director of MN BOP could "try to certify all my hours". It just sounded very iffy which scared the crap out of me.

I emailed LECOM back and asked them to just write up a affidavit I can send in with my application and I explained MN doesn't have a form so just to make it themselves or something... lol still waiting to hear back from them and Fridays the holiday so probably will have to wait till Monday, argg...

I've just been really stressed out because I have a moving truck coming Tuesday to move me to Minnesota which is far far from home..

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

 

[BidingMyTime]

Any possibility you can get licensed in PA, and then have the licensed transferred to MN?

 

[bacillus1]

Any possibility you can get licensed in PA, and then have the licensed transferred to MN?

Problem is, PA requires 750 outside hours to get licensed.

I have heard about this happening before with some states. You could get licensed in a nearby state, such as NJ or DE, and maybe then score transfer.

 

[Carboxide]

I just had my school send my new state a letter with the school seal stamped on it verifying I had completed x amount of hours. They accepted it no problem.

 

[zelman]

Your pharmacist won't report extra hours for you? Mine just told me to fill out the hours and they signed it without reading. However, I also worked a few more thousand hours more than you did. 300? Really?

 

[trailerpark]

I just had my school send my new state a letter with the school seal stamped on it verifying I had completed x amount of hours. They accepted it no problem.

I really hope this will work for me too!

 

[EML9255]

For one state I am getting licensed in the intern hours just have to be 1500, I had some outside intern hours like you but did not even need to send them.

My school sent the certificate of graduation for me with my 1500+ hours i completed t hrough rotations. Your school should 100% be able to do that and the state should 100% be able to accept it

 

[trailerpark]

For one state I am getting licensed in the intern hours just have to be 1500, I had some outside intern hours like you but did not even need to send them.

My school sent the certificate of graduation for me with my 1500+ hours i completed t hrough rotations. Your school should 100% be able to do that and the state should 100% be able to accept it

Thanks, EML. Makes me feel better.

 

[Old Timer]

What I would like to know is how you think you could get a job or be a pharmacist without actually having ANY real world experience. People like you are the reason why everyone has to do an IPPE. Back in the prehistoric days EVERYBODY had a job in pharmacy school. 300 hours over years. 2 hours per week?

Plus, it's your responsibility to know what the requirements are for licenesure in the state you are asking for a license.

 

[zelman]

What I would like to know is how you think you could get a job or be a pharmacist without actually having ANY real world experience. People like you are the reason why everyone has to do an IPPE. Back in the prehistoric days EVERYBODY had a job in pharmacy school. 300 hours over years. 2 hours per week?

Plus, it's your responsibility to know what the requirements are for licenesure in the state you are asking for a license.

I agree with your first point. However, I believe this relocation and licensure was a last minute opportunity to avoid unemployment. The inconsistencies between states is an unnecessary mess and I sympathize for those who get screwed over by our lack of federal licensure.

 

[trailerpark]

The pharmacy closed down so I was only there my second year. There were a lot of people in my class who didn't intern at all and they are getting jobs... I never thought I'd be going to MN, but I prefer it to unemployment. I have 6 figure debt.

 

[trailerpark]

What I would like to know is how you think you could get a job or be a pharmacist without actually having ANY real world experience. People like you are the reason why everyone has to do an IPPE. Back in the prehistoric days EVERYBODY had a job in pharmacy school. 300 hours over years. 2 hours per week?

I will be a pharmacist, thank you very much. People like me? It's a different time and internships aren't as easy to come by so quit judging. Before pharmacy school I volunteered to get experience, but those hours aren't counted because I wasn't an intern.

 

[Old Timer]

I will be a pharmacist, thank you very much. People like me? It's a different time and internships aren't as easy to come by so quit judging. Before pharmacy school I volunteered to get experience, but those hours aren't counted because I wasn't an intern.

I have three interns now and the 4th will start in September. Nothing you did before pharmacy school counts for anything. None of that matters. It is still your responsibility to know Pennsylvania's requirements if you want to get a license there.

 

[BMBiology]

It's a different time and internships aren't as easy to come by so quit judging.

Did you know this before you applied to pharmacy schools?

 

[trailerpark]

I wasn't planning on getting licensed in Pennsylvania. I just came here to go to school as cheap as possible.

 

[BidingMyTime]

I wasn't planning on getting licensed in Pennsylvania. I just came here to go to school as cheap as possible.

Where were you planning on getting licensed then, if not MN or PA? Your simplest bet sounds like it will be to get licensed in the state you originally planned to get licensed in, then transfer that license (or Naplex scores) to MN. Surely you planned ahead to get licensed in some state, and have the necessary hours to get licensed in that state?

 

[zelman]

Where were you planning on getting licensed then, if not MN or PA? Your simplest bet sounds like it will be to get licensed in the state you originally planned to get licensed in, then transfer that license (or Naplex scores) to MN. Surely you planned ahead to get licensed in some state, and have the necessary hours to get licensed in that state?

Not all states allow immediate license transfers. I got my primary in NY and reciprocated to MA because doing the opposite would require a 1 year waiting period. Again, the fact that we need state licenses instead of federal is an unnecessary burden.

 

[trailerpark]

MN accepts licensure transfer, but only for the next year for some reason.