Fort Worth Pharmacy Technician Training
As a student in our Fort Worth Pharmacy Tech program, your mock pharmacy training begins during the first module. Within the first two weeks of class, you’ll begin studying the reference materials, and from there you’ll start practicing how to count pills and create prescriptions.
Later in your studies, you’ll get to practice compounding and filling prescriptions, and you’ll make at least two items most days in class.
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Pharmacy Tech Classrooms and Equipment in Fort Worth
At our Fort Worth Campus, the Pharmacy Tech program has one combined lab/classroom and two additional labs dedicated to it. The average class size is about 15 to 20 students.
While enrolled in the program, you’ll get to work with chemicals and compounding agents to create items like ointments, creams, lotions, gels, lip balms, bath salts, facial scrubs, lip gloss, foot scrubs, muscle rub, and more as part of your training.
What better way to practice valuable pharmacy technician career skills like compounding than by creating compound formulas as a regular part of your in-class labs!(1)
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Connected to the Fort Worth Pharmaceutical Community
Our Pharmacy Technician school also includes an externship, which lets you apply your skills in real world settings, working side by side with professionals who are actually doing the job. A variety of externship sites – from retail to long-term care, oncology, oncology research, hospitals, and home infusion businesses – work with our students.(2)
Here are just some of the employers who’ve been part of our Pharmacy Technician externship program and have gone on to hire our graduates in the past:(1)(2)
- Pharmerica
- National Pharmacy
- Pharmacy Concepts
- Express Scripts
- Walgreens Pharmacy
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Fort Worth In-Class and Community Activities
Some recent guest speakers in our Fort Worth Pharmacy Technician school program have included representatives from:
- Express Scripts.
- The Sickle Cell Association.
- CVS.
- Prime Therapeutics.
Our students have also taken field trips to locations and events such as “The Body Exhibit” at Fair Park in Dallas and a local Walgreens pharmacy.
Fort Worth-area employers also meet with our Pharmacy Tech instructor team twice a year to contribute their knowledge and help make sure that the program is in tune with employer and industry needs. Their feedback has allowed us to produce graduates who can be valuable assets in the field as pharmacy technicians.(1)
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Fort Worth Pharmacy Tech Instructors
Our Fort Worth Pharmacy Technician program offers a hands-on approach to learning, and our instructors have decades of collective experience that enables them to provide a wealth of knowledge to students.
Even more importantly, our instructor team offers you continual support and mentoring throughout your program of study, because they are dedicated to helping you succeed.
Our instructors’ work experience in the field includes roles in:
- Retail pharmacies.
- Mail order pharmacies.
- Home infusion pharmacies.
- Long-term care (servicing nursing homes and group homes).
- Hospital pharmacies.
Our Pharmacy Tech instructors are registered pharmacists in the state of Texas, and their training and certifications include:
- IV certification.
- PTCB certification.
- CPR instructor certification.
- Chemotherapy certification.
Want to know more about our Pharmacy Technician school in Fort Worth and how you may be able to move closer to your career goals as a certified pharmacy technician?(1) Call or visit our Fort Worth college today.
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(1)Employment upon graduation is not guaranteed. Additional requirements for licensure and/or certification may apply.
(2)Must meet minimum GPA requirements to qualify for externship.