Pharmacist license in Portugal

Rafiuddin wrote:

Hi Friend,
I am Rafiuddin from India. Working as a pharmacist in Dubai.

I want to know how to apply and get the pharmacist license in Portugal to practice as a registered pharmacist.

And also I want to know what is the future and current job market in Portugal for pharmacist.

Please let me know of you have any information.

Thank you.

This is the Iceland group so you are probably going to find better information by asking in the Portugal group.

Thank you.

Do you speak Portuguese, already? In any country, Portugal, Iceland, Gemrany, France or anywhere else, you need, you must to speak the national language.

Hi Raffiudin,

Welcome to Expat.com

Kindly note that i have created a new topic with your post in the Portugal forum.

Thank you,

Priscilla
Expat.com Team

HI,

1. Application for validation of a foreign diploma as a pharmacist in Portugal

Please, take a look at these links:

Recognition of Degrees and Higher Education Diplomas from Foreign Higher Education Institutions

https://www.ff.ulisboa.pt/recognition-o … nhecimento

(Lisbon university)

https://sigarra.up.pt/up/en/WEB_BASE.GE … %20u.porto

(Porto university)

(...)

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 28#4949240


2. Current job market

Some jobs asking for pharmacists:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/farmaceut … bdomain=pt


3. Pharmacy and parapharmacy licenses

3A. Pharmacy:

Licensed by the National Institute of Pharmacy and Medicine (Instituto Nacional da Farmácia e do Medicamento, INFARMED, only to pharmacists, through a public contest.

https://www.infarmed.pt/

This activity is duly regulated, and pharmacists or their employees under their responsibility are responsible for preparing, controlling, preserving and dispensing medicines to the public.

There are approximately 3000 fixed pharmacies in operation in Portugal, and about 200 mobile pharmacy posts (MPFs). MPFs are establishments for dispensing medicines and health products to the public, run by a pharmacist and dependent on a fixed pharmacy. MPFs may be installed in places where there is no pharmacy less than 2 km away in a straight line, with each pharmacy being able to have MPFs, while INFARMED defines, for each MPF, its geographical area of operation.

Geographical distribution of portuguese pharmacies:
https://www.farmaciasportuguesas.pt/cat … -farmacias

The installation of a pharmacy results from criteria of accessibility to medication by populations and has as a priority the interest of the quality of service provided, so there are established requirements for installation and operation of pharmacies which is subject to a prior licensing process.

https://www.infarmed.pt/web/infarmed/en … /farmacias

Access the Licensing Requests+ page where the necessary forms are available for the submission of licensing requests, which must be done through the Licensing+ Portal.

https://www.infarmed.pt/web/infarmed/licenciamento-mais

Access the Licensing+ Portal to submit requests for licensing, consultation and monitoring of their status, making payments, responding to requests for elements, receipt of decisions and authorizations, certificate permits, regarding pharmacies, entities in the circuit of wholesale distribution of medicines, medical devices and active substances, manufacturing of medical devices, intermediation activity of medicines and direct purchase of medicines by public and private pharmaceutical services.

https://extranet.infarmed.pt/LicenciamentoMais-fo/



3B. Parapharmacy:

They are physical commercial spaces or installed on digital platforms, similar to the traditional pharmacy, limited however to the sale of pharmaceutical products not subject to medical prescription, cosmetic products, childcare, orthopaedics, diabetic and nutritional products, naturopathy, diagnostic services and nursing. Most parapharmacies offer in their facilities, services of foot reflexology, chiromassage, naturopathy, beauty treatments and optics.

A parapharmacy is not subject to the existing legal restrictions for the licensing of pharmacy, that is, it is not necessary to be a pharmacist to open an establishment, with the proper authorization of the Regulating Entity INFARMED. The presence of a pharmacist is not required, but there must be a specialized technician with good knowledge of the products, in order to provide the customer with all the information he needs.

Currently there are about 1,200 registered Parafarmacies in Portugal whose sales represent about 20% of the total market. The economic activity of the parapharmacies can be exercised by "legal person or equivalent" constituted or to be constituted, that is, any citizen in the fullness of his rights can exercise it in Portugal, of legal person or equivalent with: social capital; income taxed through the IRC (imposto sobre rendimentos de pessoas colectivas); have organized accounting.

I m from Pakistan I just want to know how to get Portugal pharmacist license , can someone guide me . I have bpharm degree .

If u get any information plz share with me

@Rafiuddin Hi sir same information i would like to get. Plz guide me too if u have any information. I am Asfand murad from pakistan and I would like to contact with you.

@Rafiuddin

hi Rafiu

i am pharmacist too and I have a situation about you bout I didn't see any answer for your question , if you have any information about Portugal as a pharmacist please let me know.

thanks

The equivalency you can find information about it in the related post. The most important part and most difficult one in doing the pharmacy equvalency is to know Português. After submitting your certificates and transcripts the university or website government will decide a time table of exams theory and practice plus oski exams in português just like a master defense exam. Therefore, my advice is you go and learn português, it is difficult language, will take at least 2 years from you until you learn the basic level not to mention the moderate or advanced ones.

Hello everyone!

The answer to this subject has already been given in #6.

https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.p … 32#4949245

For this professional activity, it is mandatory to be able to fluently speak portuguese level C1 at least.

CEFL level

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPLE

C1: It certifies that the speaker is capable of interacting in a varied range of less predictable communicative situations in contexts where, for example, Portuguese is simultaneously the language of everyday communication, the language used at work and the language used in teaching. Some difficulties may still occur when the language is used idiomatically or contains cultural references.

It is useless to post here questions if you don't speak Portuguese!

@JohnnyPT Hi Mr. Johny, can you tell me where it is written that c1 nível is required for practicing the pharmacy profession in Portuga.?

Thanks in advance

@JohnnyPT Hi Mr. Johny, can you tell me where it is written that c1 nível is required for practicing the pharmacy profession in Portuga.?
Thanks in advance
-@Gentleman_H

Joking right?

@SimCityAT No.

Let's put it another way: what level of language knowledge do you think is adequate to:

- to be able to sell medicines to elderly people, often without having a medical prescription and speaking only portuguese, often difficult to understand if they have closed accents from different parts of Portugal ? It is not the standard portuguese learned in schools.

- a pharmacy can give you a job, if besides you, there is at least one other candidate with the same qualifications as yours, and who is fluent in Portuguese (native speaker - level C2), and not just intermediate level (B1 and B2) ?

@JohnnyPT I agree with your opinion but wanted to know if it was explicitly mentioned in a Portuguese reference.

Kind regards

@Gentleman_H,

Don't worry, it's not written anywhere (as far as I know). But it seems to me that it's common sense.

But the main thing is Will Power, and that you have for sure

@Cheryl I am a biomedical scientist/medical laboratory scientist from nigeria, and I would like to know how to what the requirements are to enable me legally practice in Portugal. Thanks
-@Ero(Aero)

Read the previous posts in this thread, that's a start.

@SimCityAT I am from Pakistan and live in portigual. I am pharmacy technician from Pakistan pharmacy council diploma of 2 years pharmacy technician diploma.i want to open pharmacy in portigual. Please guide me how to open what will be it's requirements for pharmacy business.