Pharmacy Technician Diploma

The UMA Pharmacy Technician diploma program offers a career-focused curriculum that can help you acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence to support licensed pharmacists by assisting them with counter dispensing operations and prescription preparation at retail pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. You can learn how to:

• Stock and inventory prescriptive and over-the-counter medications.
• Maintain written or computerized patient medication records.
• Count or pour medications into dispensing containers.
• Manage the cash register/or billing
• Assemble a 24-hour supply of medication for each patient.
• Re-package medications
• Prepare commercially unavailable medications.
• Deliver medications to patient rooms.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles.
• Prepare insurance claim forms.
• Approximately 10 months