What kind of gov hospital pharmacy is it ?? is it in the US ?? If you are working in the US as a pharmacy intern, my guess is that your hours would count. But, the numbers of required hours would be different with different states.
Again ask your questions directly in writing with the FPGEC and
call the state boards of pharmacy of the states you are interested in to find out for certain what you need to do.
here is some info,
"
FPGEC Certification
NABP provides the FPGEC Certification Program as a means of documenting the educational equivalency of a candidate’s foreign pharmacy education, as well as the license and/or registration to practice pharmacy. In the process of FPGEC Certification, candidates provide
documents that verify their educational backgrounds and licensure and/or registration. Candidates are also required to
pass the FPGEE and the Test of English as a Foreign Language ™
(TOEFL®) Internet-based Test (iBT). The FPGEC Certificate allows foreign graduates to partially fulfill eligibility requirements for licensure in the states that require the Certification.
The FPGEC Certificate is not a license to practice pharmacy. In order to practice in the US, you must be licensed by the state in which you wish to practice. Candidates who receive the FPGEC Certificate may be qualified by the state boards of pharmacy to take the pharmacy licensing examination in those jurisdictions that accept this Certification. Because the licensure requirements vary from state to state, you are advised to directly contact the board(s) of pharmacy of the state(s) in which you desire licensure. For a listing of board contact information please see the Boards of Pharmacy section of the NABP Web site, located at
www.nabp.net."
http://www.nabp.net/system/rich/ric...original/fpgec-application-bulletin-0414a.pdf
and
"After Receiving FPGEC Certification
Once you receive your FPGEC Certificate, please contact the board of pharmacy in the state where you wish to obtain your pharmacist license to receive information about that state’s requirements for internship and licensure. NABP also advises that you check the state’s eligibility requirements for the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) and Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE) before registering for those examinations."
https://www.nabp.net/programs/examination/fpgec
https://www.nabp.net/boards-of-pharmacy/
*also, explore the option of applying/transferring/going to pharmacy schools in the US for a PharmD degree: This would give you more advantages than your bachelor degree as the PharmD degree is the only and currently mandated degree for people who graduated pharmacy schools after 2003. Also, of couse that you have to pay the tuition for pharmacy school again, but being a US PharmD, you would avoid the stigma of being a foreign pharmacy graduate and that would help you to find jobs more easily in the increasingly competitive pharmacy job market here in the US.
Again, call the pharmacy schools you would be interested in to find out if they would transfer some or all of your pharmacy credits to their PharmD programs. If they transfer your credits, probably you are going to only have spend 1 or 2 years max to obtain the PharmD degree. The FPGEC/FPGEE route is going to take you at least 1-2 years anyway with much more difficulty yet resulting in less future options and opportunities for your pharmacy career imho !!
GL and keep updated if you could !!
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