Current Size: 100%
Program Code: 07731
Program Availability
Contact Information:
Sharon Lee,
program co-ordinator
416.675.6622 ext. 4221
sharon.lee@humber.ca
Four semesters, beginning in September
Humber's Pharmacy Technician diploma prepares graduates for various careers in pharmacy, including community hospital and institutional/long-term care settings.
Enjoy hands-on learning in simulated labs with low student-teacher ratios (12:1) and expert faculty who are active in the pharmacy field, ensuring you are learning key industry trends. In addition, learn from guest speakers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesale distributors and hospitals, and attend conferences.
The curriculum is designed with industry collaboration, ensuring you learn current and relevant information. Courses focus on relevant legislation, physiology, pharmacotherapeutics, customer care, health-care ethics, hospital and retail software systems, inventory management, hospital practice and infection control. Students apply what they learn in lectures in the simulated labs and during placements, providing valuable real-life experience.
Begin a career where you play a critical role in contributing to patient care as a pharmacy technician.
Humber Pharmacy Technician graduates are in demand with numerous opportunities to contribute to the health and well-being of all Canadians. According to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, the need for pharmacy technicians "has been strong, due to rising needs associated with population aging, increases in government funding for health care and a high number of retirements of existing workers."
Pharmacy technicians perform many tasks, including filling and final release of prescriptions, compounding medications and managing day-to-day operations.
Pursue opportunities in various settings, such as in community/retail and hospital pharmacies, long-term care facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturers, third-party insurance companies, computer software companies and government agencies. You will also have options in related fields, including as a narcotic destruction technician, pharmacy events co-ordinator, software specialist and medication reconciliation technician.
A fully equipped dispensing lab provides students with hands-on experience dispensing, compounding pharmaceuticals developing aseptic techniques and managing inventory. In addition, students practice on equipment and technology commonly found in the workplace.
Students will complete two unpaid four-week work placements under the supervision of a pharmacist/technician after semester four: one in a retail/community pharmacy and one in a hospital pharmacy setting, likely in the Greater Toronto Area. Students, with faculty guidance, decide on a community placement in a location/city of the student’s choosing. The program co-ordinator arranges the hospital pharmacy placement. The placements provide important workplace experience and industry contacts.
For further information, visit healthsciences.humber.ca/resources/pre-placement-requirements/fieldclinical-placement.
Qualified graduates of this program may be eligible to apply their academic credits toward further study at many postsecondary institutions. For detailed information, visit humber.ca/transferguide.
Graduates from the Pharmacy Technician program at Humber College must be registered with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP) to practice as pharmacy technicians in the province of Ontario. For more information, click here.
Note: For more information, refer to Selection Procedures.
Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission to the program.
The 2013/2014 fee for two semesters is
Amounts listed are the total of tuition, lab and material fees, student service and auxiliary fees for the first two semesters of the 2013/2014 academic year. Fees are subject to change. For more information, refer to Fees and Financial Assistance.
$2,500 for textbooks and supplies.
| Course Code | Course Name |
|---|---|
| GNED 101 | An Introduction to Arts and Science |
| PHRM 145 | Dispensing Lab |
| PHRM 146 | Pharmacy Math 1 |
| PHRM 147 | Community Pharmacy Practices |
| PHRM 148 | Dispensing Theory |
| PHRM 149 | Basic Physiology and Pharmacotherapeutics 1 |
| WRIT 100 | College Reading and Writing Skills |
| Course Code | Course Name |
|---|---|
| GNED | General Education Elective |
| PHRM 189 | Computer Prescriptions 1 |
| PHRM 195 | Self Medication |
| PHRM 196 | Pharmacy Management/Inventory Control |
| PHRM 197 | Pharmacy Science - Theory |
| PHRM 198 | Compounding Lab |
| PHRM 199 | Basic Physiology and Pharmacotherapeutics 2 |
| WRIT 211 | Professional Communications - Pharmacy Technician |
| Course Code | Course Name |
|---|---|
| GNED | General Education Elective |
| PHRM 239 | Computer Prescriptions 2 |
| PHRM 245 | Hospital Pharmacy Dispensing |
| PHRM 246 | Ethics and Professionalism |
| PHRM 247 | Pharmacy Math 2 |
| PHRM 248 | Hospital Practice and Infection Control |
| PHRM 249 | Basic Physiology and Pharmacotherapeutics 3 |
| Course Code | Course Name |
|---|---|
| PHRM 289 | Sterile Compounding Lab |
| PHRM 295 | Customer Care in Pharmacy |
| PHRM 296 | Institutional Computer Prescriptions |
| PHRM 297 | Basic Physiology and Pharmacotherapeutics 4 |
| PHRM 298 | Community Pharmacy Work Experience |
| PHRM 299 | Hospital Pharmacy Work Experience |
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