2007-03-05 11:10:02 · 12 answers · asked by amby_20052006 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
A pharmacy technician does not have to have any formal education. In many states, on the job training is enough. They are only suppose to do technical pharmacy, jobs which don't require any clinical judgement. It is illegal for them to give any advice on drugs.
A pharmacist has gone to college, and has either a B.S. in Pharmacy or a doctorate in pharmacy. All recent pharmacy graduates have to have a doctorate in pharmacy. A pharmacist has been educated in pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, medicinal chemistry, etc. A pharmacist can give advice, and do many things a pharmacy tech cannot.
A pharmacist makes about 100k, and a pharmacy tech makes about 25k per year.
2007-03-05 11:49:35 · answer #1 · answered by Lea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend that is a "pharmacy tech"..she came about this as just starting out when she was about 16 working after school etc..with a pharmacist...and has been there for years...she learned/learns and knows meds etc...but would never FILL a prescription without the pharmacist at hand..she is just his "assistant"....That may not be the correct definition..but that is what it is around here...where I am from.
2007-03-05 11:15:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Pharmacist has been to college for 4 years, minimum and has a BS/Pharmacy. Pharmacy tech in some states, is an on the job trained position and just waits on the customers....doesn't dispense medications or read prescriptions. In other states there are pharmacy tech career schools of various lengths...usually about 7-8 months.(this is usually expensive...but required in those states)
2007-03-05 11:15:03 · answer #3 · answered by bflogal77 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A pharmacist has a four year pharmacology degree, and understands how drugs work in the body and what drugs are like at the molecular level, as in chemistry, as well as being able to count out meds and prepare solutions and stuff. Pharmacy techs just do the busy work of counting meds and drawing up IV solutions, and stocking medications. The course usually takes about ten months to complete.
2007-03-05 11:15:09 · answer #4 · answered by hermione_speaks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of school for the pharmacist.
Minimal training for the pharmacy tech.
2007-03-05 11:14:22 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ T O N I ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pharmacist either has a masters or a pharmD degree, must be licensed, and are knowledgeable about the uses and effects of medicines. A tech just helps dispense meds and has training but not education. And the difference in salary $60-80,000.
2007-03-05 11:24:28 · answer #6 · answered by professorc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the tech has to go to school for 2 years and stocks shelves in the pharmacy and counts pills while the pharmacist goes to school for 4-6 years and has to know the common and generic medications, what they do, and the dosage. +they make more
2007-03-05 11:15:54 · answer #7 · answered by ashlee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a pharmacist went to medical school and is a licensed pharmacist in whatever state he or she works, a tech is hired to work at the pharmacy to perhaps count pills.
2007-03-05 11:14:46 · answer #8 · answered by katie d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about $60,000 a year
the pharmacist has the degree and can run a pharmacy
the tech works under the pharmacist, but cannot run a pharmacy
2007-03-05 11:12:26 · answer #9 · answered by tomkat1528 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pharmacist has gone to school more, and I think does more hard stuff, and pharmacy tech does less difficult stuff. my mom is a pharm. tech.
2007-03-05 11:17:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋