CPA offers 14 week pharmacy technician training courses through 12 community colleges across the state of Connecticut. These courses aim to prepare students to take the PTCB exam, which will nationally credential them as a “Certified Pharmacy Technician.”
Call your nearest community college for the latest schedule:
| Asnuntuck Community College | (860) 253-3091 |
| Capital Community College | (860) 906-5028 |
| ​Housatonic Community College | ​(203) 332-5000 |
| Gateway Community College | (203) 285-2302 |
| Manchester Community College | (860) 512-3232 |
| Middlesex Community College | (860) 343-5865 |
| Naugatuck Valley Community College | (203) 596-8711 |
| Northwestern Community College | (860) 738-6418 |
| Norwalk Community College | (203) 857-7080 |
| Quinebaug Valley Community College | (860) 932-4140 |
| Three Rivers Community College | ​(860) 885-2339 |
| Tunxis Community College | (860) 773-1453 |
PLEASE NOTE
The Connecticut Pharmacist Association’s Pharmacy Technician Program is a PTCB-Recognized Education/Training Program.
Although you do not have to be nationally certified to work as a technician in Connecticut, the advantage to passing the PTCB exam is that you will have a higher level of proven knowledge and are recognized by the state as nationally certified. This state recognition allows you (by law) to be a third technician on a shift with a pharmacist. (Normally that ratio is two technicians to one pharmacist.)
To sign up for the next PTCB exam, to order study guides and manuals, or for more information on national certification, please visit: www.ptcb.org