Pharmacy Technician Certificate (30) Credits

Learn the skills you need to become a Pharmacy technician at Bramson ORT College. The newly approved program will offer hand-on training in a caring professional environment. The program includes courses in medical terminology, pharmacology, and pharmacy calculations and procedures. Modern laboratories are utilized by students for high quality hands-on training. An internship course offered at the end of the program helps the students gain the necessary practical experience needed to obtain employment in a growing pharmaceutical industry.  

Pharmacy Technicians work closely with pharmacists to provide medication and health care products to patients. They receive prescriptions from the doctors and hospitals, prepare the prescriptions for the patients, verify the insurance and the prescription information, and assist the pharmacist with everyday duties, such as inventory drug maintenance and dispensing. Pharmacy technicians held about 211.000 jobs in 2002. Two-thirds of all jobs were in hospitals; a small proportion was in mail-order and internet pharmacies, clinics, pharmaceutical wholesalers, and Federal Government. Based on the most recent data From the New York State Department of Labor, the number of pharmacy technicians will increase by 19% until 2012.