Community Pharmacy Assistant Diploma

A community pharmacist assistant helps patients and the public, assessing their conditions and making decisions about which medicines they may take. The job also involves dispensing medicines and offering advice and practical help on keeping healthy.

Our Community Pharmacy Assistant training program consists of 640 program hours + 16 hours of First Aid/CPR Training

Full-time Day Training Schedule- 28 Weeks
Theory Training: 22 Weeks
Monday to Friday from 8:30 am – 1pm
Clinical Training: 5 weeks
Monday to Friday from 8:30 am – 1pm

Modules are as follows:

  • Profession of Community Pharmacy Assistants
  • Pharmacy Calculations and Dosages Preparations
  • Community Pharmacy
  • Hospital Pharmacy
  • Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Classifications of drugs
  • Practicum

Lab Demos Include:

  • Practice calculating and preparing prescription dosages
  • Practice the preparation of prescriptions, including important points to remember for this role, prescription labels, patient profiles, billing, and maintenance of inventory, etc - Includes Computers!
  • Clinical Placement - On Site - Follows up prior to 100 hours and issue a 2nd Mid-Way Evaluation (follow up with sufficient time to prep evaluation)
  • Practices skills, policies, and routines that are hospital specific, or different than the role of a retail pharmacy, etc

Tuition fees include

  • Tuition
  • Standard First Aid/CPR AED ‘C’ Training and Certification
  • Textbooks and Course Materials
  • Clinical Labcoat
  • Clinical I.D Badge

Minimum Program Requirements

  • International Applicants over the age of 18 years old.
  • A Foreign credential that is assessed for Grade 12 equivalency by a recognized organization - (many individuals use educational assessment services such as WES)

English Language Proficiency Test Requirements:

  • IELTS (International English Language Testing Services) – Minimum average score of 6.0 with no subject test score lower than 5.5.
  • TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet based test (IBT) – over 80, with the minimum of each component: Reading 20; Listening 20; Speaking 20; Writing 20.