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Preliminary examination | Date (2006) | Format | Contents | Presiding organization | Additional requirements | |
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USA | Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination (FPGEE) | June, December | Written test including 300 items Duration, 10 hr, one day |
Basic biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, social/behavioral/administrative pharmacy sciences, clinical sciences | National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) | English proficiency, for graduates after January 1, 2003. Five-year educational curriculum requirement |
Great Britain | One-year course including the Overseas Pharmacists Assessment Programme (OPA) | Ninety items in a 90-min closed-book exam Eighty items in a 150-min openbook exam: 20 calculations and 60 other items |
Field work and knowledge | Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain | English language test | |
Australia | Seven steps, including eligibility and English proficiency | The first week of March and September | Two written tests consisting of multiple choice questions, a practice test, and an oral test | Four categories of written tests and three categories of oral tests | Australian Pharmacy Examining Committee (APEC) | Supervised practice up to than 2,000 hr |
Canada | Paper review and examination | January 11–12, July 12–13 | Part I: 300 multiple choice questions Part II: OSCE |
Practice pharmaceutical care Assume ethical, legal and professional responsibilities Access, retrieve, evaluate and disseminate relevant information Communicate and educate effectively Manage drug distribution Apply practice management knowledge and skills |
Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) |
Preliminary examination | Korean Pharmacist Licensing Examination | |
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Eligibility | Graduates of international pharmacy schools and pharmacist licensees in foreign countries | Graduates of pharmacy schools in Korea International graduates who passed the preliminary examination |
Item format | Two subjects: Korean language and basic pharmacy (300 multiple choice questions) | Twelve subjects, 300 multiple choice questions |
Subjects | Basic pharmacy and Korean language | Organic pharmaceutical chemistry, inorganic pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical quantitative analysis, pharmacognosy, biochemistry, microbiology, hygienic chemistry, Korean pharmacopoeia, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and control of narcotics |
Passing criteria | Korean language: replaces the test of proficiency in Korean (5th grade); candidates who speak Korean as their mother tongue are exempt Basic pharmacy: total score over 60% |
Total score over 60%, and a score over 40% in every subject |
Interview Term | Three interviewers decide whether the candidate passes or fails | No |
Exempt from writing the preliminary examination once the examinee has passed it | Life-long license | |
Year of implementation | 2015 |