Study Set Content:
Each pharmacist must carry out professional duties with utmost competence and in
accordance to legal and ethical standards.
Practices in a professional, legal and ethical manner
Each pharmacist must consider at all times the well-being of the client/patient as the
most important professional concern.
Places client’s/patient’s welfare at the center of the practice
Each pharmacist must exemplify leadership through managing conscientiously one’s
work and improving client/patient outcomes by creating innovative and timely solutions
Demonstrates leadership and management skills
Each pharmacist must be able to relate and communicate with people of diverse values,
beliefs, backgrounds and expectations in carrying out his/her important role as a
medication expert
Demonstrates cultural competence and effective communication
Each pharmacist must be able to actively work in an interprofessional and
multidisciplinary environment.
Engages in inter professional collaboration
a. Participates in quality management system
b. Contributes in product life cycle management
c. Maintains adequate premises and equipment
d. Participates in health vigilance programs
3. Manufacturing Pharmacy
a. Provides quality medicines and other health products appropriate to the needs of
the client/patient
b. Compounds products in a manner that ensures product quality, safety and
efficacy
c. Counsels client/patient on the safe and judicious use of medicines and other
health products
d. Engages actively in client/patient safety and health promotion activities
e. Ensures business sustainability through efficient processes and systems
4. Community, Hospital and Institutional Pharmacy
a. Identifies appropriately the health and pharmaceutical needs of the population as
well as the appropriate interventions to address them
b. Support activities aimed at protecting and improving the health and well-being of
the population
c. Participates in policy and strategy development and implementation
d. Contributes to the evidence base on how medicines-related interventions,
programs and policies improve and protect the health of the population through
academic and/or pharmacy practice research
e. Ensures clinical governance and continuous quality improvement in service
design and delivery
5. Public Health Pharmacy
a. Represents the organization to regulatory authorities
b. Coordinates pertinent regulatory-related marketing activities of the organization
c. Participates in the development of regulatory guidelines
d. Ensures quality regulatory documentation
e. Ensures compliance to health vigilance requirements
2. Regulatory Pharmacy
a. Prepares students to become professional pharmacists through effective
teaching
b. Contributes to existing body of knowledge through conduct of scientific research
c. Shares technical expertise to the members of the community
d. Enriches teaching with additional training and practice experience
Academic Pharmacy
Every examinee must have the following qualifications in order to be admitted to the Licensure
Examination
1. A citizen of the Philippines or of a foreign country which has a law or policy on reciprocity
for the practice of the pharmacy profession;
2. Of good moral character and reputation;
3. A degree holder of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or its equivalent degree conferred
by an HEI in the Philippines or an institution of learning in a foreign country duly
recognized by the CHED;
4. Has completed an internship program approved by the Board, pursuant to such
guidelines as may hereinafter be promulgated, in consultation with the duly recognized
associations of pharmacy schools and the CHED
An applicant who failed in the licensure examination for the third (3rd) time
shall
not be allowed to take the next succeeding examinations without having undertaken a
refresher program in a duly accredited institution. The Board shall issue guidelines on the
refresher program requirement.
A pharmacist before being able to practice the profession must pass the licensure examination
as required by the
Republic Act 10918 otherwise known as the “Philippine Pharmacy Act”.
licensure examination usually
given
2x a year
In order to be registered and licensed as a pharmacist, a candidate must obtain a general
weighted average of
seventy-five percent (75%) with no rating lower than fifty percent (50%) in
any of the subjects
issued to every registrant, upon payment of
the prescribed fees.
A PIC bearing the registration number and dates of its issuance and expiry, duly signed by
the Chairperson of the PRC
What is issued to the pharmacist
Certificate
of Registration and a Professional Identification Card
Requirement for renewal
upon presentation of
the Certificate of Good Standing (COGS) from the accredited professional organization
(APO) and proof of completion of the continuing professional development (CPD)
requirements.
The PIC shall be renewed every
3 years
All successful candidates in the licensure examination shall take their
oath of profession prior to
entering the practice of the pharmacy profession,
