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Law and Ethics Webinar

In accordance with California Code of Regulations section 1732.5(b),at least two of the 30 CE hours required for a pharmacist’s license renewal must be completed by participation in the mandatory Board-issued law webinar and the mandatory Board-issued ethics webinar. This law became operative on July 1, 2019. Viewing both webinars will satisfy the two-hour law and ethics CE requirement. You may view these webinars on the Board’s website at any time; no registration is required. The Board’s law and ethics webinars are required for pharmacists only. No other licensees are required to complete – nor awarded CE credit by the Board for completing – the law and ethics webinars.

Note: The California State Board of Pharmacy is not an approved ACPE provider. The mandatory Board-issued law webinar and the mandatory Board-issued ethics webinar are required for your California pharmacist license renewal, but will not be submitted to the NABP and will not appear on your CPE monitor. For this reason, pharmacists are required to retain their law & ethics CE completion certificates for four years.

Webinar Instructions

The Board has a new Learning Management System (LMS) named PharmEd. If it is your fist time using PharmEd you will need to create an account. When you click on the Law Webinar or Ethics Webinar link below to enroll, you will be prompted to create an account.

At the end of the course, you will be a link to the certificate of completion:

  • DO NOT MAIL THE CERTIFICATE TO THE BOARD OF PHARMACY. The Board of Pharmacy will receive an electronic notification that you have completed the course. However, you are required to keep the certificate for four years in case you are asked to provided evidence of completion.
  • Law Webinar - The Board aims to update the mandatory Board-issued law webinar annually. This course must be completed prior to the submission of each license renewal (every two years).
  • Ethics Webinar - The mandatory Board-issued ethics webinar, dated 2019, is the only version of the webinar. This course is not updated annually and is meant to be a refresher course. This course must be completed prior to the submission of each license renewal (every two years).