Pharmacy Technician Program Microcredential

Program Overview

Program Description: 19-week Program, 20 learners per class

This is a 19-week, 420-hour Binghamton University Microcredential (noncredit)
entry-level pharmacy technician training program that will prepare the graduate to confidently start their career in an expanding healthcare field.

Pharmacy Technicians play a crucial role in assisting pharmacists in various tasks related to medication dispensing and patient care. If you like working in a team with others to care for patients and enjoy customer service, this job may be for you. A job as a pharmacy technician also helps you explore other careers in the healthcare field, such as pharmacist.

Pharmacy technicians are essential healthcare professionals who ensure the safety of our medication use system. In addition to dispensing new prescriptions and refilling prescription orders, packing and labeling prescriptions, preparing sterile and nonsterile compounded medications, tracking medication inventory, and processing insurance claims, the role of the pharmacy technician under the supervision of a pharmacist has been expanded in recent years to include medication reconciliation, screening for medication allergies and immunization administration.

Entry-Level Pharmacy Technician is also now a microcredential at Binghamton University, awarding this distinction to each student who completes all of the requirements of the program. 

Our Mission

To help build an educated healthcare workforce in the Binghamton/Broome County area. To prepare the learner to be practice-ready for a healthcare career at the time of graduation. To graduate pharmacy technician learners equipped with the knowledge to pass the national pharmacy technician certification exam. Our program graduates will be highly sought after with a goal of 100% job placement.

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Why Choose Binghamton University:

• Learn from faculty and staff trained in pharmacist education at an accredited school of pharmacy.
• A 4-month online self-paced, live classroom and laboratory curriculum coupled with 4 weeks of clinical rotations that prepares you to take and pass the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) CPhT certification exam included https://www.ptcb.org/credentials/certified-pharmacy-technician
• Learn in state-of-the-art school of pharmacy patient care and pharmaceutical sterile and nonsterile compounding simulation labs
• Clinical rotations offered at local hospitals and pharmacies with experienced preceptors

Program Highlights

• Flexible rotations focused on a student's career path including field experiences in hospital and community pharmacy practice
• Complimentary use of a computer tablet to complete coursework
• Partnering with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the leading pharmacy technician education professional organization, through their program PharmTech® Ready to deliver core classroom and simulation education. https://www.ashp.org/products-and-services/pharmtech-ready?loginreturnUrl=SSOCheckOnly
• A voucher for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) CPhT certification exam is included https://www.ptcb.org/credentials/certified-pharmacy-technician
• Complimentary one-year membership in ASHP and ASHP’s Pharmacy Technician Society (PTS) https://www.pharmtechsociety.org/
• Complete American Heart Association Basic Life Support training
• Complete Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act training
• Complete Blood Borne Pathogens training

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Accreditation Information

The Entry-Level Pharmacy Technician Program Microcredential at Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is a basic-level pharmacy technician program.

In 2024, we are in the Pre-accreditation phase and are working towards full accreditation by the following organizations:

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
4500 East West Highway #900
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: (866) 279-0681

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
190 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 664-3575

In addition, the Entry-Level Pharmacy Technician Program Microcredential is a Pharmacy Technician Certification Board-recognized education/training program.

Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB)
2215 Constitution Avenue NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC 20037

Binghamton is a PTCB-Recognized Education/Training Program.