i want to go to college to become a pharmacist but what is the difference between a pharmacist and a pharmacist technician?
2007-11-27 03:00:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment ➔ Health Care
The schooling, supervision, job responsibilities (pharmacy tech is not allowed to give advice on meds) and salary.
US occupational outlook handbook has more info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and search 'pharmacist' or 'pharmacy technician'. If deciding to go for pharmacy tech, please steer clear from those $$$ private schools and instead look into the county vo-tech school or community college (perhaps non-credit course) providing that it's accredited in the industry.
For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ
2007-11-27 07:08:07 · answer #1 · answered by jannsody 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you are able to imagine of a Pharmacy Technician as an assistant to a pharmacist. He/she does no longer carry as many primary jobs as a pharmacist and is purely allowed a restricted quantity of responsibilities by regulation. In maximum states, you are able to receive a pharmacy technician license by basically passing the exam from the drugstore technician certification board. I stay in California, and that i received my %. license by basically passing the exam after interpreting for it for some days. A pharmacist, on the different hand, has lengthy surpassed by 3-4 years of professional college to receive his/her Pharm.D. Pharmacists have extra primary jobs and responsibilities than a tech. maximum applicants keep on with after receiving their bachelor's degree, yet some students were nicely-known by basically ending up the could haves. shifting into those courses is starting to be increasingly extra puzzling, and better and better GPAs and PCAT rankings are the norm at maximum faculties interior united statesa..
2016-10-25 03:13:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A difference is several years of schooling, and tens of thousands of dollars in salary.
The pharmacist has much more schooling, licensing, and responsibility. The tech is an assistant to the pharmacist, but the pharmacist must actually either fill the prescription or check it to be sure it is correct.
2007-11-27 03:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An education. A pharmacist technician cannot fill prescriptions unless the pharmacist is present.
2007-11-27 03:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋