Certificate Training Programs

APhA's The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program: Program Details

APhA’s The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program will provide an educational experience designed to equip pharmacists with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to provide effective, evidence-based diabetes care. The program provides comprehensive instruction in current diabetes concepts and standards of care and incorporates case studies and hands-on skills training focused on the situations most likely to be encountered — as well as the services most needed — in community and ambulatory care practice settings. Participants will gain experience evaluating and adjusting drug therapy regimens for patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, counseling patients about lifestyle interventions, analyzing and interpreting self-monitoring of blood glucose results, and assessing the overall health status of patients to identify needed monitoring and interventions.

APhA's The Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care Certificate Training Program Brochure

Registration Fee:
OPA Member: $395
Non-member: $495   Join Now and Save!
PGY1 or PGY2 Resident: $325
Student Pharmacist: $225

Please note:  If you are unable to attend the upcoming Diabetes certificate training program and are interested in receiving a notification about future programming, please submit the following form:

Diabetes Care Training Program Interest Form

Pharmacist Training Program for Long-Acting Injectables: Program Details

OPA is pleased to announce its live training program on January 16, 2025 for pharmacists who plan to administer the following long-acting or extended-release dangerous drugs permitted by Ohio Revised Code 4729.45:

1. Opioid antagonist used for treatment of drug addiction or alcohol dependence and administered in long-acting or extended-release form;
2. Antipsychotic drug administered in long-acting or extended-release form;
3. Medroxyprogesterone acetate for non-pregnant women;
4. Cobalamin.

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Seating is limited. 

LAI Training Program for Long-Acting Injectables Brochure

The live training will be held at the OPA office in Columbus, and includes sessions on implementing administration of antipsychotic medications in pharmacy practice; naltrexone administration and the required testing; and sterile preparation and administration technique for administering these medications. The administration technique session will include SC injections in the upper arm and abdomen, and IM injections in the deltoid and gluteal muscles. Completion of the home-study lessons on LAI antipsychotics, naltrexone, and buprenorphine is required before attending the live session.

Home-study lessons on each of the four categories of dangerous drugs are available for purchase on the OPA website. These lessons meet the training requirements in Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) 4729:1-3-03(L). Pharmacists who have met the training requirements for administration of immunizations (OAC 4729:1-3-02) are not required to complete additional training in administration technique, if their previous training included the same injection techniques necessary to administer the dangerous drug.

Registration Fee:
OPA Member: $295
Non-member: $425 Join now & Save!
PGY1 or PGY2 Resident: $265

Please note:  If you are unable to attend the upcoming program and are interested in receiving a notification about future programming, please submit the following form:

Long-Acting Injectables Program Interest Form

Ohio Pharmacists Association, an APhA licensed partner, is offering APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians. This program was originally developed by Washington State University (WSU) and revised through a partnership between WSU and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). The Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians training program explores the expanding role of the pharmacy technician by providing additional skills training to administer immunizations.

This two-part program emphasizes a health care team collaboration between pharmacists and technicians which seeks to improve population health by increasing immunization rates in states that allow technicians to immunize. Composed of an online self-study component combined with a live seminar that teaches hands-on immunization techniques, this program will provide a total of six hours of continuing education for technicians.

Registration Fee:

OPA Technician Member $250

Technician Non-member $300

No training program is currently scheduled. To be notified when registration opens, use the link below. 

APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Administration by Pharmacy Technicians training program Interest Form