Diploma in Pharmacy Technician (PHRM)
DURATION
1 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
TUITION FEES
CAD 9,036 / per semester *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* *international fall semester fee / international winter and summer semester fee: $7,971 | domestic fall semester fee: $2,214 / domestic winter and summer semester fee: $1,881
Key Summary
Introduction
Skilled and knowledgeable faculty. Hands-on experience. Exceptional facilities including simulated labs.
Students prepare to work collaboratively with pharmacy teams and other healthcare professionals to achieve patients’ health goals and ensure continuity of care. Experiential learning practices such as simulation experiences, and placements in community, hospital, or other pharmacy sites actively engage students in the learning process. Students enjoy the benefits of learning from expert faculty who are also practicing pharmacy professionals. Students develop knowledge, skills, and abilities in key competency areas of legal and ethical responsibilities, professionalism, patient care, product preparation, health promotion, knowledge application, communication, intra- and inter-professionalism, and safety.
Learning spaces
Hands-on health-care education
Our state-of-the-art simulation labs give you the hands-on training you need with the equipment you will use on the job.
The Sadlon Centre for Health, Wellness, and Sciences at the Barrie Campus offers students in the Pharmacy Technician program:
- a separate, clean room that hosts eight laminar airflow hoods to practice aseptic techniques
- a separate anteroom to practice proper infection control in a hospital environment
- a pharmacy lab that focuses on different types of hospital dispensing
- a community pharmacy lab where students have their own space for dispensing medications
- access to technology such as scanners, automatic pill counters, GoPros, and packagers that enhance experiential learning
Accreditation
Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs
The Pharmacy Technician program at Georgian College has been awarded accreditation status by the Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs for a five-year term from Jan. 1, 2020, to Dec. 31, 2024.
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Awards, scholarships, and bursaries
Postsecondary education is an investment in your future. We know many students find it tough to make ends meet, which is why we offer so many options to help you pay your way to graduation.
Georgian offers awards, scholarships, and bursaries to students of all walks of life — domestic, international, and Indigenous, full-time and part-time, first years, upcoming graduates, and everyone in between. You can afford this!
Curriculum
Semester 1
Program Courses
- BIOL 1014 The Essential Body
- COMP 1063 Community Pharmacy Computer Systems
- MATH 1025 Pharmaceutical Calculations
- PHRM 1000 Pharmacology Fundamentals
- PHRM 1002 Community Pharmacy Dispensing Introductory Theory
- PHRM 1007 Community Pharmacy Dispensing Introductory Lab
Communications Course
- Select 1 course from the communications list during registration.
General Education Course
- Select 1 course from the general education list during registration.
Semester 2
Program Courses
- BIOL 1012 Drug Therapy and Pathophysiology 1
- PHRM 1009 Community Pharmacy Inventory Control
- PHRM 1010 Non-Sterile Compounding Practice Lab
- PHRM 1017 Community Pharmacy Dispensing Advanced Theory/Lab
- PHRM 2004 Legal Foundations and Professional Practice
Practicum Placement
- PHRM 1016 Practicum 1
General Education Course
- Select 1 course from the general education list during registration.
Semester 3
Program Courses
- BIOL 2010 Drug Therapy and Pathophysiology 2
- MATH 2009 Pharmaceutical Calculations Advanced
- PHRM 2009 Hospital Inventory Control
- PHRM 2011 Sterile Techniques Lab
- PHRM 2016 Hospital Dispensing Introductory Theory/Lab
Communications Course
- Select 1 course from the communications list during registration.
General Education Course
- Select 1 course from the general education list during registration.
Semester 4
Program Courses
- BIOL 2011 Drug Therapy and Pathophysiology 3
- PHRM 2006 Natural Health Products and Complementary Care
- PHRM 2012 Advanced Compounding
- PHRM 2013 Hospital Dispensing Advanced Theory/Lab
- PHRM 2014 Pharmacy Practice and the Interprofessional Team
Practicum Placement
- PHRM 2015 Practicum 2
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Your Pharmacy Technician diploma gives you many career opportunities
Registered pharmacy technicians are qualified to work in a variety of settings, including community pharmacies, home healthcare companies, hospital pharmacies, pharmaceutical wholesalers, pharmacy software vendors, third-party insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers.
Licensing as a Pharmacy Technician
The Ontario College of Pharmacists is responsible for regulating the profession of pharmacy in Ontario which includes the issuance of certificates of registration for pharmacy students, interns, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians.