Based upon valuable feedback from our educational, employer and pharmacy partners, the Institute for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians (ICPT, now a member of the National Healthcareer Association, has made some significant changes to the 2010 edition of The National Pharmacy Technician Training Program manual.

Some of those changes include:

• Additional material as recommended in the model curriculum to assist programs interested in pursuing programmatic accreditation.
• More than 200 additional pages of information (nearly a 70-percent increase) divided into 18 logical, easy-to-follow chapters.
• Training at three levels to help candidates focus their studying: Introductory, Certification and Career Development.
• New chapters on common disease states, basic pharmacology and non-sterile compounding.
• Expanded chapters on basic medical terminology and basic anatomy and physiology that now cover additional organ systems, disease states and info on physiology and drugs.
• Expanded sections: patient interaction skills, destruction of controlled substances, most-abused prescription medications, controlled substances table, drug diversion, calculations and medication use in pregnancy.
• Revised chapters: patient communication, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology and sterile compounding.

The new The National Pharmacy Technician Training Program-7th Edition is available at www.nationaltechexam.org.