The Pharmacy Experiential Training is categorized into pre-registration and post-registration programme designed to give pharmacy students and newly registered pharmacists practical experience in different pharmacy practice settings. This is done under the supervision of an accredited preceptor in one or more of the following areas:
- Hospital Pharmacy Practice
- Community Pharmacy Practice
- Academia and Research
- Regulation and Policy
- Compounding, Manufacturing, Stores and Marketing
The Pharmacy Council determines the Institutions and establishments accredited as suitable for experiential training.
Experiential training is mandatory for anyone training to become a pharmacist in Ghana, including foreign practicing pharmacists.
To produce a broad-based and balanced scientist, a competent and trusted professional pharmacist who appreciates the practice of pharmacy in Ghana and provides quality pharmaceutical care.
- To train pharmacists for careers in pharmaceutical services.
- To train pharmacists to provide quality and accessible pharmaceutical care.
- To equip and improve the professional skills of the prospective pharmacist.
- To provide an understanding of the role of the pharmacists in the health care team.
- To foster a widespread and thorough understanding of the pharmacist’s role to the public he/she serves.
- To understand the scope of pharmacy practice in Ghana through practical exposure.
- To provide a practice-based educational programme for improving quality assurance methods that pharmacists apply to their work.
- To provide an understanding of the ethical, legal, and regulatory principles affecting pharmacy practice in Ghana.
1. PRE-REGISTRATION EXPERIENTIAL TRAINING
Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE)
The IPPE is done during the first four years of the pharmacy programme. It is designed to offer basic pharmacy practice experience across all pharmacy practice areas.
Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE)
The APPE is a 12-month pre-graduate practice-based training programme organized according to the approved curriculum for Pharmacy education in Ghana and guided by standards, policies, and procedures developed by the Council before one qualifies to write the Professional Qualifying examination.
The APPE is coordinated by the Council and implemented by the accredited schools of pharmacy and experiential training institutions.
Experiential Training for Foreign-Practising Pharmacists
Foreign practising pharmacists who wish to register in Ghana are expected to undergo a 3-week experiential training following a successful review of their documentation, after which they become eligible to apply for the Ghana Pharmacy Professional Qualifying examination.
2. POST-REGISTRATION EXPERIENTIAL TRAINING (PHARMACY HOUSEMANSHIP)
The Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act 2013 ACT 857 provides specific predetermined qualifications and criteria for the licensure of pharmacists in Ghana. After passing the GPPQE and registering as a pharmacist on the Provisional Register, newly registered pharmacists must undertake 12 months of mandatory housemanship before they become eligible to be registered on the Permanent Register of Pharmacists. This pharmacy housemanship training occurs in accredited institutions as determined by the Council.
You must submit a full history of your qualifications and experience and pay the experiential training processing fee before an applicant will be posted.
Variations in your name
Your name on all the documents you submit must be the same.
If there are any variations in your name within or between documents you must provide a declaration sworn before the solicitor, of those variations and additional documentation that may be required.
Certified Copies of Certificates
A ‘Certified copy’ is a copy of the original marked as a copy of the original, signed and dated by a solicitor or an equivalent legal witness from the country in which you trained or registered as a pharmacist.
Submission of documents
After you have arranged for a full copy of your academic record or confirmation of registration to be sent directly to the Council, please send the remaining documents to the Pharmacy Council together and ensure that your name appears on each document.
The documents required for the registration must be received before application processing by the Education and Training Department commences.
Required documents to be submitted per applicant category
- Ghana-trained Pharmacy Graduates
- A completed pharmacy experiential training application form
- A certified true copy of your degree certificate
- Proof of citizenship (i.e. Copy of passport page)
- A copy of your work permit in your passport (for non-Ghanaian applicants)
- A recent passport-size photograph
- Foreign-trained Pharmacy Graduates
- An application letter for registration in Ghana
- A completed pharmacy experiential training application form
- A certified true copy of your degree certificate
- A transcript from your training institution posted directly by the institution to the Registrar of the Council
- Proof of citizenship (i.e. Copy of passport page)
- A copy of your work permit in your passport (for non-Ghanaian applicants)
- Foreign-Practicing Pharmacists
- An application letter for registration in Ghana.
- A completed pharmacy experiential training application form
- A certified true copy of a Pharmacy degree certificate or its equivalent.
- A transcript from your training institution posted directly by the institution to the Registrar of the Council.
- Reference letter from your current employer posted or directly by the institution to the Registrar of the Council.
- Confirmation of your licensure by the registration authority or body that grants you the license to practice as a pharmacist in that country posted directly to the Registrar of the Council.
- A copy of your current curriculum vitae with dates
- Evidence of practical training before registration as a pharmacist
- Proof of citizenship (i.e. Certified copy of your passport)
- A copy of your work permit in your passport. (Non-Ghanaian applicants only)
- A recent passport-size photograph bearing on the back:
- Your usual signature
- The statement ‘This is the true likeness and signature’
- A non-refundable processing fee of $100.00 or its cedi equivalent
Additional documentation
The Council reserves the right to request any additional documentation at any time.
If your original documents are not in English, you must submit an English version of all documents duly certified.