Foundations & terminology
Pharmacy practice fundamentals, core terminology and professional communication.
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Learn the foundations. Practise safely. Build confidence.
A four-week program structured around online learning, live instruction, supervised community-pharmacy training, guided activities and academic assessment.
4 weeks26 approximate planned learning hours70% overall standard
How you learn
A balanced academic learning experience.
OPAA has 6 h 24 min of published video lessons, approximately 6 hours 30 minutes for planning. All four Week 4 Kroll tutorials are also required and included in the guided study allocation below. Live classes may run longer for questions and discussion.
Approx. 6.5h OPAA video lessons (exact runtime: 6 h 23 min 44 s)
6h planned Live pharmacist-led classes, with flexible Q&A time
11.5h planned Guided study, mandatory Kroll video viewing, assignments & assessments
2h Supervised community-pharmacy training
Program curriculum
Your week-by-week journey.
Drug products & prescriptions
Drug-product awareness, prescription workflow and safe communication.
Schedules, calculations, privacy & safety
Practice calculations, privacy-aware conduct and safe operational habits.
Workflow & final competency
Pharmacy workflow, software awareness, medication safety and final competency.
Assessment & certificate
Progress is built on competence and safe practice.
To complete the program, students meet the required academic components, achieve the final competency standard, complete the Community Pharmacy Observation Project and demonstrate safety-critical competencies.
When the program conditions are satisfied, OPAA reviews completion and issues a digital certificate.
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Tuition: CAD $1,400 before tax. OPAA currently charges 13% HST ($182), for a total of CAD $1,582. Review the complete price and tax before paying.
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