Maisie Hirschman
18:53 - 19:14
“the last year you complete, um, like 1,700 hours of clinical experience. Um, so I just completed that in May, um, and then I graduated and I was able to pretty much immediately apply to take my NAPLEX, which is the board exam that you have to take to get licensed.”
- Speaker
- Maisie Hirschman
- Timestamp
- 18:53 – 19:14
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 5, 2026
From the transcript
So you, within the 4 years, you complete 3 years straight in the classroom, and then every summer you do about a 3-week, um, clinical experience, and that varies for where you go and how that program or how those programs work and how you get chosen for your site. But your 4th year is all clinical rotations, which I found was Obviously very helpful and very cool because you're not stuck in the classroom for 4 years exactly. Um, so the, yeah, the last year you complete, um, like 1,700 hours of clinical experience. Um, so I just completed that in May, um, and then I graduated and I was able to pretty much immediately apply to take my NAPLEX, which is the board exam that you have to take to get licensed. Um, in any college of pharmacy.
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