Took my last final today

[Tenor CS]

Congrats. Now that you have finished your classes, is there another test you need to take to be licensed or certified, or whatever the term is? Did you do an RPh or a PharmD?

[DrDubzz]

Originally Posted by Tenor CS

Congrats. Now that you have finished your classes, is there another test you need to take to be licensed or certified, or whatever the term is? Did you do an RPh or a PharmD?

Thanks! And good questions, finishing the curriculum is for the Pharm.D. Once we've all graduated next week, we start signing up to take the NAPLEX and MPJE to become licensed which gives us our RPh, which is the part that allows us to practice as pharmacists.

So the education is the Pharm.D. but the item that actually makes us pharmacists is the RPh part

Congrats Tim! Glad to see you hit one of your goals.
It sure feels good to be done for now.

[Tenor CS]

Originally Posted by RX2010

Thanks! And good questions, finishing the curriculum is for the Pharm.D. Once we've all graduated next week, we start signing up to take the NAPLEX and MPJE to become licensed which gives us our RPh, which is the part that allows us to practice as pharmacists.

So the education is the Pharm.D. but the item that actually makes us pharmacists is the RPh part

Cool, thanks for the info. I always wondered what the two titles meant, since before the PharmD, lots of pharmacists had a master's.

I just got hired at CVS as a pharmacy tech. I am registered with my state and am planning to get my national certification this summer.

In August, I start a Molecular Bio BS at University of Central Florida. Leaning towards Pharmacy School at UF after that.