Do hospital hire pharmacists with H1 visa?

[kazungnuts]

Hi,
Does anyone know whether hospitals (those clinical pharmacist position) would prefer to hire someone who has citizenship or green card? How about people who go to US pharmacy school but do not have green card/citizenship? Is it harder to find job in the US? I am worried now 🙁

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[Hels2007]

Hi,
Does anyone know whether hospitals (those clinical pharmacist position) would prefer to hire someone who has citizenship or green card? How about people who go to US pharmacy school but do not have green card/citizenship? Is it harder to find job in the US? I am worried now 🙁

First you need to check whether you will be eligible for licensure in the specific state where you would like to go. Some states do not allow non-citizens to be licensed. Some states require you to be on a permanent, as opposed to temporary (I guess H-1 is temporary?) visa. Contact the Board of Pharmacy of the state you will be going to. You would also have to go through the laundry list of requirements before you can be licensed - exams, perhaps intern hours, etc. - requirements vary state to state. It's not like you can get off the airplane, walk into a hospital and say "I am a pharmacist, I need a job".

 

[RNtoPharmD]

First you need to check whether you will be eligible for licensure in the specific state where you would like to go. Some states do not allow non-citizens to be licensed. Some states require you to be on a permanent, as opposed to temporary (I guess H-1 is temporary?) visa.

Which are those states? As far as I know, only New York requires citizenship.

Contact the Board of Pharmacy of the state you will be going to. You would also have to go through the laundry list of requirements before you can be licensed - exams, perhaps intern hours, etc. - requirements vary state to state.

Since he graduated from US school, doesn't this satisfy the required intern hour ? It is because he has done intern hours during school. He graduated from US school so he should be eligible to take the board..

I suspect that his case is different from the case of foreign-grads.

If you find out, please post here. I am interested in knowing too..

 

[Hels2007]

Which are those states? As far as I know, only New York requires citizenship.

I know of New York, if there is one state, there are likely others. I think Illinois might...

Since he graduated from US school, doesn't this satisfy the required intern hour ? It is because he has done intern hours during school. He graduated from US school so he should be eligible to take the board..

Very much depends on the state. Some schools do not provide enough hours to satisfy internship hours requirement period (some only provide about 1000 hours when many states require 1500-1600 for licensure), some states specifically require certain number of hours outside of school, regardless of whether you are domestic or international pharmacist, and sometimes even regardless whether you are instate or out of state graduate.

Besides, the information of the OP being a US school graduate is not in the thread. If he/she is, when why is he/she posting in pre-pharmacy forum, of all places? And has not clarified these things with the Board of Pharmacy first? Or haven't talked with the professors and the institutional rotation preceptors about these matters?

In any case, state-to-state requirements vary dramatically, which is why there only ONE correct solution - to contact the specific state's board of pharmacy.