(a) The courses shall be in the form of postgraduate studies, institutes, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, extension studies, correspondence courses, and other similar methods of conveying continuing professional pharmacy education.

(b) The subject matter shall be pertinent to the socioeconomic and legal aspects of health care, the properties and actions of drugs and dosage forms and the etiology, and characteristics and therapeutics of the disease state.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 4232

  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21

(c) The subject matter of the courses may include, but shall not be limited to, the following: pharmacology, biochemistry, physiology, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacy administration, pharmacy jurisprudence, public health and communicable diseases, professional practice management, anatomy, histology, and any other subject matter as represented in curricula of accredited colleges of pharmacy.

(Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 621, Sec. 61. Effective January 1, 2006.)

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