There are several kinds of exams that pharmacy technicians must take. Some of them are nationally accredited and considered as a credible certified exam. Taking this exams will help increase your pharmacy technician salary expectations once you get hired.
The most recent certified exam is the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB). This exam is not held with basis of continuous testing and is just a one day test. The result for this exam will be given immediately after the end of exam. This exam is supported by several organizations of pharmacy experts, such as the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). In all, everyone of the 50 states have this exam and it is also administrated in Guam and Puerto Rico and other DANTES exam centers throughout the world.
The demand to be required to take this exam is increasing by employers, instructors and veteran technicians already working in pharmacies. For close to 14 years the data shows that this demand is increasing all the time so that there will be a more strict requirement for certified pharmacy techs. PTCB has granted CPhT to 330,425 pharmacy technician since 1995, in 2008 the candidates who follow the PTCB reached 50,000 technicians.
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