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Path to Become a Registered Pharmacist

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For New Zealand at first the overseas pharmacists must undergo for an initial skills assessment. During the initial skills assessment candidates need to show their English language test score and work experience along with submitting all the other mandatory documents. Once the case officer assess all the documents they will give the eligibility to sit for the KAPS exam.

 

The best career for pharmacist after b pharmacy is to work as a pharmacist in Australia, Canada, New Zealand or UK. These are the western countries which accept the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from overseas to practice as a pharmacist.

In Australia, on average a pharmacist will be paid between $40 to $60 per hour depending on their managing skills and experience.

To reach the manager level a pharmacist must have good experience and skills. Depending on their manager skills they can get between $120000 to $140000 per annum.

In US a pharmacist can earn between USD $45 to $70 per hour. The salary depends mainly on their qualification, experience and managing skills.

In US on average a pharmacist can earn up to $10000 per month.

All the major cities in Australia like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and Canberra pay almost the same and their average salary will be $45 to $50 per hour. If you are interested in working in rural Australia then your average salary will be $55 to $60 per hour.

A pharmacist can work up to 40 hours per week, including weekend and public holiday shifts.

Yes, a pharmacist can pick the extra shifts when needed and they will get paid more for those shifts.

The first step is to list out all the pharmacies in a particular city or region. Then send emails to the managers of individual stores. Below is the list of top community pharmacies in Australia

  1. Chemist Warehouse
  2. Discount Chemist
  3. Priceline pharmacy
  4. Terrywhite Pharmacy
  5. Amcal Pharmacy
  6. Blooms Chemist
  7. Pharmasave
  8. Capital chemist
  9. Pharmacy4less
  10. Direct chemist outlet and many more

The first step is to list out all the pharmacies in a particular city or region. Then send emails to the managers of individual stores. In the email you need to attach your CV and cover letter. Make sure to include all the information in the CV and it should not exceed more than 4 pages and the cover letter should contain all the details in a single page.

Getting a pharmacist internship position in Australia is not a difficult task. However, there will be few challenges for which you must be ready to face. For instance, you might prefer to live in cities like Melbourne, Sydney but the pharmacist internship position will be 300km away from where you prefer to live. In such scenario, you must be ready to move to start your internship.

During internship a pharmacist will get around $27 per hour.

To work as a pharmacist in Australia at first all the overseas candidates need to pass an exam known as KAPS. This exam will be conducted by the Australian pharmacy council (APC). Once after clearing this exam you need to do internship in Australia and also need to clear 2 more exams during internship.

In Australia on average a retail pharmacist can make $80000 to $110000 per annum. Whereas a hospital pharmacist can make $80000 to $130000 per annum based on their experience.

The below countries are considered as the best for pharmacist as they provide job satisfaction (pharmacist can work clinically and gets rewarded). United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland.

In US on average a pharmacist can make between USD $90000 to $140000 per annum. In Canada a pharmacist can make between CAD $85000 to $115000 per annum. In Australia the salary ranges between AUD $80000 to $110000 per annum and in New Zealand it would be NZD $70000 TO $100000 per annum.

*while comparing the salaries we also need to keep in consideration of the tax and cost of living in those countries.

Elite Expertise

Elite Expertise offers KAPS exam essentials course and OPRA Exam for Australia and New Zealand, Australian pharmacist intern written and oral exam prep course and PEBC Preparation Course. Soon we are launching licencing exam preparation courses for other countries like USA, UK and Ireland.

You can easily register through our website eliteexpertise.com.au. You may also call or send a message on the WhatsApp number provided, one of the team members will assist you.

Yes, all our classes at Elite Expertise will be online. A candidate can attend the class from any part of the world.

Yes, once after finishing the live class all the recorded videos will be available in Elite Expertise app. You can access them from the app and watch it unlimited times.

No, you need not to pay any further amount. Once you pay the tuition fees its our responsibility to make sure you pass the KAPS exam / OPRA, and you will get unlimited access until you clear both the papers.

Yes all of them are live lectures. All the lectures will be taken by the directors who are the consultant and clinical pharmacists working in well reputable hospitals in Melbourne.

We provide the complete career guidance to candidates once they clear their KAPS exam. For all the candidates who successfully clear their KAPS, we conduct few live sessions where we explain them about further steps like visa processing, AHPRA registration and so on.

Yes, we help all the candidates how to get registered with AHPRA. We conduct a live session and explain in detail about how to create AHPRA profile, submitting the documents and so on.

 

No, we don’t charge any amount from the candidates who are already enrolled with us for KAPS training / OPRA Training. Our support will be with even after clearing their KAPS.

At the beginning of the course, we will take 10 hours of live classes every week but a month before the exam (during revision sessions) it will go up to 25 to 30 hours per week.

It’s a 3.5 months training, where we teach all the topics of the KAPS in a comprehensive way.

Once you enrol with Elite Expertise, we don’t recommend you refer any further books. All the material that we provide including handouts, assignments, concepts in the live lectures, practise questions through our mocks is more than enough to pass the KAPS exam./ OPRA exam.

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