A Pharmacy Technician is a licensed healthcare professional within the health care team. This program offers low student-teacher ratios with experts who continue to work in the field. Pharmacy Technician students gain the knowledge, skills and professionalism required for success in retail, hospital, long-term care and specialty settings. Students learn about relevant legislation, health care ethics, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, customer care, hospital and retail software systems, calculations, inventory management, hospital practice, and infection control.
Traditional in-class instruction is coupled with blended learning and then enhanced through teamwork, role playing activities, guest speakers and innovative lessons. Three fully equipped pharmacy labs provide students with hands-on experience dispensing medications, compounding pharmaceutical products and developing aseptic techniques.
During Term 4, students travel outside of Lambton College as part of a capstone assignment for PHR-4022. This trip includes presentations, tours, networking and opportunities to see other areas in which a pharmacy technician can work. Additional costs may be required.
Students will complete two unpaid four-week field placements under the supervision of a pharmacist/technician after the completion of term four: one in a community pharmacy and one in a hospital pharmacy setting. These experiential learning placements take place March through June. Travel and additional costs may be required.
Upon graduation students are eligible to write national and provincial licensing exams.
