Advance your Pharmacy Career while you work with UF’s

Online Degree Programs

In today’s quickly evolving pharmacy industry, education is crucial to remaining a competitive, relevant, and effective pharmacist.

The University Of Florida offers two exciting ways to take your pharmacy career to the next level – the online Master’s in Medication Therapy Management and the Working Professional Doctor of Pharmacy.

Our programs are flexible and designed to fit your life – so you can continue to work while earning your degree from the top-ranked and prestigious University of Florida College of Pharmacy.

Which program will take your practice to the next level?

MS in Pharmacy

Medication Therapy Management – Online

Become a leader in patient care, advance the pharmacist-patient relationship, and lead your organization in the emerging field of MTM.

• Study Online - Graduate in less than 2 years
• Deliver a higher standard of care and impact the treatment of each patient
• Discover advanced medication management of complex diseases
• Explore the leadership, business, and communication skills you’ll need to implement MTM into your practice
• Learn to effectively collaborate with patients and prescribers to resolve and analyze medication and complications and interactions
• Earn the first and only specialized Master’s in this groundbreaking field
• Study with the prestigious, fully accredited, and top-ranked University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Pharm.D.

Working Professional Doctor of Pharmacy – Distance-Learning

In today's competitive marketplace, many positions require you to have a Pharm.D. to even apply. With this flexible program, you can become an innovative leader in pharmaceutical care and retain the competitive advantage you've earned throughout your career.

• Distance-Learning – Graduate in 3 years
• Complete your Pharm.D. while you work – no need to take time off to complete clinical requirements
• Earn the industry-standard level of education and stay competitive
• Upgrade your clinical skills to become an expert clinician
• Master advanced pharmacotherapy of complex diseases
• Apply new knowledge daily to improve your practice
• Study with the prestigious, fully accredited, and top-ranked University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Ready to take the next important step in your career?

Request information below or call 1-800-431-6687 to speak with your Enrollment Advisor

RXinsider’s Pharmacy Technician Training & Orientation is a no-nonsense training program for anyone interested in a career within the pharmacy profession. The program focuses on basic skills and understanding while minimizing training burdens on the existing pharmacy staff. RXinsider’s Pharmacy Technician Training & Orientation is the perfect starting point for cross-training front store pharmacy personnel, training new pharmacy staff or self-directed training for individuals interested in becoming a pharmacy technician.

Program Features:

• Four comprehensive and relevant modules
• Unlimited online access 24/7
• Assessment quiz & certificate of completion
• Web-based
• Affordable investment

Program Objectives:
By completing the training program, trainee should:

• have an idea of what a typical Pharmacy Technician's duties will entail.
• gain general and basic knowledge of a typical retail pharmacy and its operations.
• feel less overwhelmed and stressed during the first few weeks of employment.
• prove to future employers their commitment to becoming part of the pharmacy team.
• grain an edge on any other applicants for a particular pharmacy position.
• save time and frustration during the in-store training process.
• determine whether a career in pharmacy may be the right fit.
• NOTE: This program is NOT intended as a study guide for the PTCB Exam.

Program Modules:

1. General Pharmacy Information
2. Sig Codes/Abbreviations
3. Brand-Generic Name Recognition
4. Prescriber Handwriting Recognition + Day’s Supply Calculations
5. Self-Assessment Quiz

Price:

$39.00

Medisca® Network is a provider of continuing education, formula-related technical support, and consultancy services geared toward the practice of pharmacy compounding. We place quality above all else. We provide a broad range of continuing education activities and venues across North America for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and allied health professionals.

Our accredited continuing education practice-based activities are in the areas of non-sterile and sterile compounding, the specialty niche markets of pain management and hormone replacement, and business, marketing and sales development. Our continuing education portfolio provides the strongest of foundations needed to build a successful compounding practice.

Our technical support and consultancy services are provided by expert internal pharmacists and formulation chemists, and a team of external consultants in the areas of regulatory compliance, standards of practice, pain management, hormone replacement, business, marketing, sales, finance, facility design, and more.

Our CE Program Portfolio for 2012:

• Non-sterile compounding training
• Non-sterile skills lab training
• Sterile compounding training
• Aseptic techniques training
• Business development, marketing and sales for the compounding pharmacist
• Compounded pharmacotherapeutic options for pain management
• Compounded pharmacotherapeutic options for hormone replacement

Our Style of Program Delivery:

Our programs employ contemporary instructional design concepts, creating a dynamic, energetic and interactive environment conducive to, and resulting in, significantly higher levels of learning. The recall, retention, and recognition of information and practical applications learned in the program are significantly enhanced by our teaching / facilitation style. Core central concepts and program themes are readily applicable to your day-to-day practice.

Our Technical Support Services Department:

We recognize the need for compounded medications to be administered through alternative routes of delivery and delivery systems. These extemporaneously prepared medications must be chemically stable, physiologically suitable and result in a positive therapeutic outcome.

Our Technical Support Services Department, its expert compounding pharmacists and formulation chemists, are dedicated to providing leading-edge patient-specific formulas that will meet the demands of today’s pharmacy and medical communities. We have an obligation to provide the best possible service to ensure the safety and security of the patient population.

Our Consultancy Services and Consultation Team:

Our team of consultants provides you with an array of experts made up of academia and practicing professionals within retail pharmacy, hospital and hospice care. Further, our team members are highly successful compounding pharmacists in their own right and are themselves pharmacy owners. While highly skilled in specialty niche markets, many members of our team are responsible for creating our industry’s current standards of practice and serve as Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB) auditors.

Placing the interest of pharmacists, physicians, and patients first, we are...
THE NEW DIMENSION IN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDING®

Spanish Training for Pharmacists

About the Program:
Developing Spanish counseling skills will help increase patient compliance and build customer loyalty while setting your pharmacy’s level of customer service apart from competitors. Spanish for Pharmacists is a comprehensive, 52-page book enabling pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to learn the basics of Spanish for effective patient counseling. Spanish for Pharmacists was written by practicing pharmacists specifically for the retail pharmacy community and contains more than 250 pharmacy-specific phrases and 1000 pharmacy-relevant vocabulary words.

Program Objectives:
Upon completion of this program, the pharmacist or pharmacy technician should be able to:

• Translate basic questions regarding prescription and OTC medications from Spanish into English.
• Ask questions pertaining to a patient’s medical condition in Spanish.
• Explain side effects of prescription and OTC medication in Spanish.
• Explain drug dosage regimens in Spanish.
• Translate the Spanish alphabet.
• Discuss how, where, and when to use medications in Spanish.
• Translate body parts and organs in Spanish.
• Translate medical symptom terminology from Spanish to English.
• Translate days of the week, months of the year, and numbers in Spanish.
• Demonstrate the ability to tell time and determine dates in Spanish.
• Convey the location of products, items, and parts of the store in Spanish.
• Translate certain foods and store products in Spanish.
• Demonstrate proper pronunciation of Spanish letters and words.
• Translate key Spanish question words.
• Translate key sentences used in prescription processing and counseling.

Testimonials:
The Spanish for Pharmacists program is an excellent tool for providing customer service and patient counseling to the growing niche market of our Hispanic customers. It is practical, useful and simple."
- David Gagnon R.Ph.

"This program is exactly what I have been looking for! I wanted a program to help teach me the useful "pharmacy Spanish" needed to help our customers but I didn't want to waste my time learning irrelevant information. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to effectively counsel their Spanish speaking customers."
- Sheryl ShemTov B.S. M.S. CPhT

"I think the Spanish for Pharmacists program is fantastic. It allows many technicians to learn a unique skill that can be applied in many pharmacies. Whenever I train in a particular store in which I feel the program may be of use, I let the staff know about it. I especially like how the program is straight forward and reader friendly."
- Michelle Ellinwood CPhT

Price:

$49.00

PCCA Training, CE & Student Compounding Boot Camps

C.E Programs
Through seminars and training, PCCA provides an organized, professional forum for compounding pharmacists to obtain practical information, earn C. E. credits, and receive valuable hands-on experience. In addition to seminars, PCCA offers pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students and professors, in-house training in our state-of-the-art compounding facilities in Houston.

International Seminars
The International Seminars provide compounding pharmacists as well as their compounding staff and guests with the latest information available in pharmacy compounding. At each International Seminar attendees will experience:

The Consultants Corner:
A panel from the Dr. M. George Webber Pharmacy Consulting Department shares information and compounding ideas discovered during their daily consultations and research. Topics include unavailable or discontinued manufactured products, compounding techniques, equipment and devices, unique dosage forms, marketing ideas as well as other aspects of a compounding pharmacy practice.

Compounding Pearls:
A panel of practicing compounding pharmacists shares formulas and tips they have found beneficial to their practice. Panel participants rotate with each seminar.

Quality Control:
IACP presents this program to deal with issues involving various aspects of quality control in pharmacy, especially compounding. Experts in the field cover various topics concerning proper procedures for establishing quality control mechanisms in the compounding lab.

Workshops:
Featured speakers, consultants or pharmacists lead instructional and networking sessions that include the main topic of the seminar as well as other popular compounding subjects. Attendees are given the choice of several workshops in order to pursue the areas of most interest to them.

Pharmacy Practitioner Sharing:
Member pharmacists present their experiences in their compounding practices including: formulas, marketing ideas, anecdotal reports and practices associated with compounding.

Equipment Table:
PCCA team members demonstrate and explain the vast selection of equipment, devices and supplies available to the member pharmacist. Included is a new product table to display the very latest in equipment added to the selections.

Legal Update:
Presented by the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacy, pharmacists are made aware of the latest developments concerning compounding pharmacy, including legal requirements and regulatory issues.

Primary and Aseptic Compounding Training Classes
In addition to seminars and symposiums, PCCA members have the opportunity to attend training classes in the PCCA's state-of-the-art compounding laboratory in Houston. Each year PCCA trains licensed pharmacists, as well as pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students and pharmacy professors. The compounding classes are accredited by ACPE and are offered throughout the year.

Primary Compounding Training:
The four day Primary Compounding Training, awarding 30 hours of continuing pharmaceutical education credit, provides hands-on training in practical compounding procedures, such as solutions, gels, creams, lotions, sticks, suppositories, troches, encapsulations, minor aseptic, unit dose compounding, enteric coating and lollipops. The class also provides instruction in compounding equipment, discusses legal issues and the importance of quality control, and covers helpful marketing techniques.

Aseptic Compounding Training:
The second course offered by PCCA is Aseptic Compounding Training. Pharmacists in attendance receive 40 hours (4.0 CEUs) of continuing education credit, including 24 hours prerequisite course work and 16 hours hands-on lab practice (includes 1 hour [.1 CEU] of law). The two-day course is an intensive hands-on experience and covers the latest USP and ASHP guidelines and standards. Focus is placed upon quality assurance of the compounding environment, equipment, end-product and the personnel involved. Click here for the 2005 Aseptic Compounding Training schedule.

Training Facilities:
The hands-on portion of the training course for our member pharmacists, pharmacy students and technicians is conducted in our compounding laboratory. The lab is equipped with 81 compounding workstations, a closed circuit television system to facilitate demonstrations by the instructor, and a classroom for lectures and slide presentations. Our training program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and is presented by our staff pharmacists, technicians and Ph.D.s.

PCCA Institute Pharmacy Boot Camp
Current pharmacy students may utilize PCCA's expertise and training through this course. The intent of Boot Camp is to introduce students to the unique and novel dosage forms utilized by today’s compounding pharmacists; to enlighten them as to the reality and feasibility of opening their own compounding pharmacy; and to inspire them to think of compounding as a viable, rewarding, and fulfilling career pathway.

Two full days of lecture and hands-on laboratory work provide a basic understanding of the skills, tools and equipment used in Contemporary Compounding. Students complete eleven dosage forms they take home with them, focusing on dosage forms such as lollipops, lip balms, troches, and transdermal delivery systems. Demonstrations of modern compounding equipment include the Ointment Mill, Electro Mortar-Pestle, Homogenizer, and Heat Sealer. Lectures on various contemporary compounding topics, compounding as a career path, and patient case studies are also on the agenda. http://www.pccainstitute.com/en/default.cfm