The Community Pharmacy Assistant program provides an avenue into the pharmacy profession for those interested in the specialized retail business fundamentals and customer relations within the field of human health and wellness promotion. Traditional in-class instruction is enhanced through teamwork, role-playing activities, guest speakers and innovative lessons in a fully-equipped retail pharmacy simulated lab. Experience ingenuity within the field as you formulate common products in a retail pharmacy setting, and specialty products such as medicinal lozenges, powders, creams, tablets, capsules and suppositories. Students also experience up to 80 hours of field placement in a community pharmacy. Graduate with a firm understanding of pharmacology, inventory practices, and modern pharmacy software programs and a demonstrated ability to provide clerical and technical support to a Registered Pharmacist and Registered Pharmacy Technician in a retail pharmacy environment.

Community Pharmacy Assistants function in a support role for both the pharmacist and for pharmacy technicians by compounding, packaging and labelling pharmaceutical products as well as maintaining prescription records and inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products. Graduates of this program may seek employment with: retail/community pharmacies, long-term care specialty pharmacies, compounding pharmacies and methadone dispensing specialty pharmacies.