Adaptation Period
Tutor
pharmacists are sometimes required to supervise applicants who are
undertaking an ‘adaptation period’ through the Third Country
Qualification Recognition (TCQR) route. Such applicants will have
qualified outside of the EU/EEA and are required to apply for
qualification recognition before they can apply to register with the
PSI. The adaptation period may be any duration between 6 months to 3
years.
An ‘adaptation period’ is undertaken under the supervision
of a registered pharmacist (who must be a tutor pharmacist). Adaptation
period applicants do not undertake the National Pharmacy Internship
Programme (NPIP) but they and their tutors are required to work through
the same competence standards that underpin the NPIP and therefore the
work-based learning elements are similar to the NPIP. Upon the
successful completion of an ‘adaptation period’, applicants are then
required to pass the
Professional Registration Examination, the same examination that all interns are required to pass.