Most Pharmacists Job Descriptions Don't List Board Certification as a Requirement

[TranslationalRPh]

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Saw this interesting article about the nexus between credentials and employment. Not surprising.

Most pharmacist job descriptions didn't list board certification as a preferred credential. However, there is a preference for board certification for predominantly clinical jobs. Also, the most common board certification requested is pharmacotherapy.

 

[PharmDBro2017]

Water is wet?

 

[TranslationalRPh]

Water is wet?

Snarky much?

 

[zelman]

Saw this interesting article about the nexus between credentials and employment. Not surprising.

Most pharmacist job descriptions didn't list board certification as a preferred credential. However, there is a preference for board certification for predominantly clinical jobs. Also, the most common board certification requested is pharmacotherapy.

They also don’t list “willing to work for $40/hr and provide free overtime” but that’s what they want.

 

[TranslationalRPh]

They also don’t list “willing to work for $40/hr and provide free overtime” but that’s what they want.

Very true. Hard to recruit telling the truth.

 

[wucool33]

Water is wet?

Not if you ask Alexa.

 

[RxEvileye]

Yes, it looks like the cutoff for "most" was 51% vs. 49% (still almost half) and among clinical jobs 53% preferred. I think it is slowly becoming a standard as part of credentialing and privileging processes. The clinical jobs I applied for, and my current one, at least preferred it and I know multiple settings where it is financially incentivized.

Here are two other recent articles that you may find interesting:

ACCP Commentary
Expanding the Pharmacist’s Scope of Practice at the State Level: Support for Board Certification Within the Credentialing Process
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ACCP White Paper
Credentialing and Privileging
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Here in California the Advanced Practice Pharmacist license is usually not necessary (yet) to be under collaborative practice agreements since they wanted to get it in place before payment mechanisms come later, but note that board certification is one way of meeting its 2/3 requirements.