Your certification will expire, and you will again need to pass the PTCB Exam to regain your certification. All fees and application materials must be sent to PTCB, postmarked on or before the last day of the 90-day extension. A new two-year period of certification begins, and the process is repeated. Although you may by written request be placed on inactive status at any time, you mut again sit for and pass the PTCB Examination to regain active certification. Chairperson of the Academy of Certified Pharmacy Technicians, Susan M. Thompson, CPhT Vice-Chairperson of the Academy of Certified Pharmacy Technicians, Susan M. Thompson, CPhT PTCB has added the Training Manual for Intravenous Admixture Personnel to the list of pharmacy technician resources to prepare for the examination.
Sites located in Pennsylvania are in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
There are established test centers in over 120 locations in the U.S.A. Alternate test dates are only available for candidates who have religious beliefs that prevent them from taking the examination on Saturday. Appropriate documentation is required to sit for alternate test dates. Thank you for those certified pharmacy technicians who attended the July meeting and your background knowledge in this profession. The above CE programs comply with the continuing education content criteria established by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. A certificate will be distributed to those technicians attending the program with the issued credits applied for each program.