What is a Pharmacy Technician?

   As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be assisting the Licensed Pharmacist with all the necessary day-to-day services that the Pharmacy provides- everything from preparing medications to answering phones, receiving, and verifying prescriptions, counting tablets, taking requests for refilling of medications, and much more. You are an assistant to the pharmacist. 

Talk about job security! This is a growing field with high demand and great salaries.1 You can work for retail and independent pharmacies and hospitals. There are so many possibilities. Excellent communication skills and customer service are essential in this field. You must have the ability to learn and retain procedural processes and apply them quickly and accurately. Most places do require flexibility of hours; some might ask for nights, weekends, or holidays depending on where you work and for whom you work. 

Our 300 hour/14-week Certificate Program prepares you to take and pass the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board exam. You will also receive a Certificate of Completion through the Academy of Medical Professions. This program walks you through each topic required for certification and allows you to review the program contents up to the day you sit for the National Certification Exam.