District of Columbia Pharmacist CE

Standard Renewal Requirements

Every District of Columbia pharmacist must complete 40 contact hours of continuing education per renewal period to satisfy DC pharmacist license renewal. Within those 40 hours, DC pharmacists must complete 2 hours of DC medication and dispensing error CE and 2 hours of LGBTQ cultural competency CE , and must devote at least 10% of their total hours, 4 hours, to public health priority topics designated by the DC Health Director. At least 10 of the 40 hours must be live CE contact hours and the remaining 30 hours may be completed through online or home study courses like the District of Columbia Pharmacist CE Package.

Source: DC Health Board of Pharmacy .

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Conditional Renewal Requirements

Pharmacists certified to administer immunizations must complete an additional 2 hours of immunization administration CE for pharmacists and maintain current CPR certification, on top of the standard 40-hour requirement. DC Health Board of Pharmacy

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First-Time Requirements

Continuing education requirements do not apply to pharmacists renewing a DC license for the first time. DC Health Board of Pharmacy

As DC transitions all licenses to the birth-month renewal cycle, pharmacists whose license term during this transition covers less than two years may satisfy 50% of the standard hour requirement for that one-time renewal. The 2-hour LGBTQ cultural competency and 10%-public-health-priorities requirements still apply in full. DC Health Board of Pharmacy

AchieveCE is an ACPE-accredited provider and reports your completed hours directly to CPE Monitor and stores your certificates of completion, so your record is both filed with NABP and backed up if you are ever audited.