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Are you a detail-oriented person who loves working behind the scenes? Do you want to play a critical role in health care, supporting both patients and health care providers? In less than one year you can learn how to be a pharmacy technician. FRCC's hands-on training prepares you to join the pharmacy team in this important role. You'll get the skills, training and support you need to help pharmacists ensure the health and safety of patients.
Why Study to be a Pharmacy Technician at Front Range Community College?
We'll prepare you to work in community and institutional pharmacy settings and include you in our extensive health care network that will help you make important career connections.
Our one-year program prepares you to perform pharmacy-related functions, generally working under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist. Our training includes both classroom and simulated components along with a hands-on experience.
Our program also prepares you to take the Pharmacy Technician National Examination. After passing the test, you can register an apply for a licensure to practice in Colorado.
You can enter the program in either the fall or spring semester.
We offer an apprenticeship pathway in addition to our traditional pharmacy technician program. Apprentices get paid for on-the-job training while working on site at the employer’s facility. As an apprentice, you will earn while you learn. Apprenticeships also provide you a competitive advantage in the workforce, as well as wage increases and opportunities for career advancement.
Zero-Cost Certificate Program
Complete FRCC's sterile pharmacy technician program — at no cost to you. Thanks to
the Care Forward Colorado grant program, you can have your tuition, fees and course
materials completely covered. All you have to do to receive the scholarship money
is apply for financial aid. Whatever isn’t covered by financial aid will be covered
by Care Forward dollars through May 2025. Learn more about the scholarship.
Certificate Details
Advanced Pharmacy Technician Training
Program Locations: Westminster
Total Credits: 26 credits (2 semesters)
The program prepares you to assist in the preparation of prescribed medications, including retrieve, count, pour, weigh, measure and mix medications. You'll be qualified to work as a pharmacy technician in a retail pharmacy, hospital, nursing home, assisted living facilities or mail-order pharmacy.
During the first semester you'll attend classes at the Westminster Campus. During the second semester you'll complete experiential modules in a both a hospital and a community pharmacy setting.
This program prepares you to sit to take the Pharmacy Technician National Examination.
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Your certificate can open doors for a career in a variety of health care facilities.
What makes FRCC's Pharmacy Technician program special?
Hear what FRCC has to offer from students, faculty and alumni of the pharmacy technician program.