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Walgreens policy
Started by Gunter
I think this can vary by district.
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Lots of people.
They may not fire you as a grad intern, but you bet your sweet ass you're not gonna get a pharmacist position from them.
What you said doesn't make sense, I'm already contracted with them that once I pass both exams then i'll be coded as pharmacist. Just not sure about being fire after how many attempts on the exam
I feel like two or three people who don't know eachother wrote that post.
"I don't understand your post about why failing to uphold my end of a contract would result in that contract being nullified."
Yes, they might have told you that.
Even if you don't get fired, the RPh job won't wait 90 days for you to retest.
It's a tight market.
Expect to move to another city or state.
Also, do you understand what happens to your intern license once you fail a board exam?
In my state, failure of the NAPLEX terminates the intern license.
Texas interns who fail the NAPLEX essentially automatically resign.
Check with your board of pharmacy.
Not to mention the 'contract' is almost certainly for at will employment in the first place...
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When I was a new grad, the chains and hospitals gave you 90 days to become licensed from the time you graduated. Since failing the NAPLEX requires you to wait 90 days to retake, that automatically meant you were gone. You could fail MPJE and take it again since that only required a waiting period of 30 days, but again, it had to be within 90 days of graduation.
It's not even possible to become licensed within 90 days of graduation in some states like California.
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Then I would assume they would make exceptions for the delay due to the board processing the application, but not people failing. Do they even hire grad interns these days out there? It seems like since it's so saturated, they wouldn't wait 6 months for someone to get licensed. They would just hire someone who is already licensed.
Yes, they still do.
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you can only fail the exam one time, any more failed attempts will get your contract terminated by your DM.
I didn't believe it until I witnessed it myself. So crazy. It's one thing to be a JD but not admitted to the bar. A PharmD (but no RPh) might spend a lot of time at the bar.
It sounds like the answer is "a lot more people than back when I went to school." My school averaged 1 failure a year, and it was usually along the lines of (a few years before me) someone who was "having very serious problems with one of her three children, and nearly had a nervous breakdown herself." My own class had a single NABPLEX failure; I didn't find out who it was until several years later, and didn't know the person well enough to know if I should have been surprised.
At least at the time, you had to pass it within 5 years after graduation to get a license. Drake, in Des Moines, lost its accreditation for a while in the 1980s because they had so many graduates who couldn't do this. 😱
I mean you don't have to take my word for it, there are published statistics about it.
FWIW I knew a resident who failed to get licensed after three attempts and went into Finance. Again this guy went through the match process and got a residency. So hypothetically he should have been our best and brightest. And he failed the naplex three times.
He had performance anxiety?
I'm surprised they gave him three attempts! Wish we still get three attempts, then I won't have so much testing anxiety or pressure to pass, will get my law score next week, ugh...
Oh no his residency dropped him after the first attempt my point is he used all three attempts and was unable to become a pharmacist at all.
