Great News!

Hotel rates of $159+tx have been held over!  

Registrations are still being accepted to attend the 20th Annual Pharmacy Technician Conference.  There are lots of great educational sessions including:  Medication Reconcilation, Challenge Two:  Jurisprudence, Compounding 101: Beyond Basics and many more. 

Please click here for more information or if you would like to register for this conference. 

1. to include pharmacy technicians, in anticipation of their becoming regulated health professionals,
2. to reflect practice changes that have occurred since the standards were introduced, and
3. in anticipation of practice changes that are just now being proposed or developed.

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For more information on the Pharmacy Technician Bridging Progams, please click on the links below. 

Red Deer College Continuing Education - Phamacy Technician Bridging Progams

Alberta College of Pharmacists

Bow Valley College - Pharmacy Technician Bridging Programs

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

The Alberta College of Pharmacists, Transition Times if devoted to helping pharmacists and pharmacy technicians navigate changes to the pharmacy profession in Alberta.  The current issue is devoted to providing an update and clarifying the details of the pharmacy technician regulation process.  Click here

to read more about these changes.

It's time to celebrate excellence in pharmacy!

The Pharmacy Practice and Drugstore Canada Commitment to Care & Service Awards is the only national awards program created to recognize, and reward, the many facets of pharmacy-- from patient care to health promotion; from disease management to business acumen; from interprofessional collaboration to charitable work.

The Commitment to Care & Service Awards recognizes pharmacists, pharmacy owners and managers, pharmacy teams, frontshop personnel and collaborative teams for their innovative contributions to pharmacy practice.

Award winners in (15) categories receive a cash prize and a trip to Toronto to accept their award at a fabulous gala banquet held at the historic Fairmont Royal York hotel. Winners are also profiled in Pharmacy Practice magazine.

Nominations are being accepted.  For more information about how to enter the 2010 Commitment to Care & Service Awards, click here.