Targeted level of study
BAC +2
ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Pharmacy
Language(s) of instruction
French
Presentation
The aim of the DEUST training is to allow the qualified pharmacy assistants arriving on the job market to be a more efficient support for the pharmacist and to constitute real collaborators accompanying him in the evolution of the missions.
To achieve this level of requirement, a level 5 diploma such as a DEUST is very much in demand by all the partners in the pharmacy sector, since it will provide a real 2-year higher education level, while possibly allowing students to enroll in a professional license with a hospital, pharmacy or technical focus.
Objectives
The pharmacy technician carries out his or her missions in a pharmacy, mutualist pharmacy and mine rescue.
He/she works under the responsibility and effective control of a Pharmacist.
The objective of the training is for the pharmacy technician to be able to carry out the following missions:
- Analysis of the prescription or request for health, dietary, cosmetic and personal hygiene products.
- Dispensing requested health products and counseling patients/clients.
- Inventory management.
- Participation in prevention, information and vigilance of patients/clients.
- Reception of the public and sale.
- Administrative functions necessary for the reimbursement of drugs and materials.
- Participation in the quality assurance process.
- Preparations, packaging, labeling and pricing.
Know-how and skills
- Manage the request for pharmaceutical products and accompany the person in his or her management.
- Work in a multi-professional team and process information related to pharmaceutical activities.
- Take action on prevention.
- Manage the flow of pharmaceutical products.
- Position yourself as a health care professional.
- Act responsibly within a professional organization.
Organization
Open in alternation
Type of contract | Apprenticeship contract, Professionalization contract |
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2 days on the training site and 3 days on the learning field.
Alternation methods
Students alternate attendance at their training site and their learning field during the week (2 days/3 days).
Internships, tutored projects
Internship | Mandatory |
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Program
The DEUST training program will be organized on a work-study basis (apprenticeship or professionalization contract). Most of the teaching will be provided by instructors from the partner CFAs (Greta-CFA Montpellier Littoral, Purple Campus CCI Occitanie, Lycée Maillol Pyrénées-Orientales), on site at the partner establishments. However, some of the teaching may be carried out remotely, synchronously or asynchronously, when teachers from the Faculty of Pharmacy are mobilized.
Pedagogical principles:
- Training of CFA trainers by subject referents identified by name within the Montpellier Faculty of Pharmacy.
- Common teaching based on a co-constructed reference framework based on the skill blocks of the DEUST Preparateur / Technicien en pharmacie RNCP sheet.
- Development of inter-professional teaching (pharmacists, doctors of pharmacy, holders of scientific masters).
- Simulation teaching (bank of "clinical cases" and "counter situations" in a simulation room).
- Teaching in professional simulation: co-acquisition of knowledge and skills in the training center and in the place of learning according to defined themes. The progress of the acquisitions is monitored in close collaboration with the apprenticeship master by evaluating the objectives to be reached, defined jointly by the training organizations and the professionals (methodology and evaluation).
- Semester-long evaluation of students through exams at the end of each semester.
Student support can take several forms:
- A minimum of 4 visits to companies over the two years of the DEUST. The first one will take place at the beginning of the first year and will be followed by a follow-up visit in the first and second years.
- Students with disabilities can take advantage of all the resources available at the University and in the training centers (Service Handiversité, disability advisors, etc.).
- Orientation and social support for any student who encounters problems or has questions about social aspects.
Select a program
DEUST PREPARATEUR-TECHNICIEN EN PHARMACIE - 1st year
Management
From molecule to cell: Biochemistry§Cell biology
3.5 creditsBotany
1.5 creditsMolecule to cell Chemistry
4 creditsApprenticeship semester 1
10 creditsGeneral pharmacology
3 creditsPhysiology of large systems and apparatus
5 credits
Apprenticeship semester 2
10 creditsDrug ethics, regulation and legislation
3 creditsTreatment of disorders of the cardiovascular system
3 creditsCommunication, English, office automation
3 creditsImmunology and general infectiology
4 creditsNatural substances
1.5 creditsMetabolic biochemistry and nutrition
1.5 creditsPharmacotechnie 1
4 credits
DEUST PREPARATEUR-TECHNICIEN EN PHARMACIE - 2nd year
Apprenticeship semester 1
10 creditsPharmacotechnie 2
6 creditsTreatment of cardiovascular disorders
3 creditsTreatment of infectious diseases: antibiotic therapy,
3.5 creditsTreatment of inflammatory and rheumatological diseases
2.5 creditsOther regulated healthcare products
2 creditsCommunication, English, office automation
3 credits
Compendial medical devices
2 creditsTreatment of dermatological/allergic/ophthalmic conditions
2.5 creditsTreatment of endocrine and digestive system disorders
3 creditsLabour legislation
2 creditsApprenticeship semester 2
10 creditsPublic Health
1 creditsCancer management
2 creditsTreatment of nervous system disorders
3.5 creditsTreatment of urological and gynaecological disorders,
2 creditsToxicology & drug addiction
2 credits
Admission
Conditions of access
Access DEUST 1
- Selection via ParcourSup
The program is open to all new graduates of the ST2S (Health and Social Sciences and Technologies) and STL (Laboratory Sciences and Technologies) general and technological baccalaureates. Graduates from other technological and vocational baccalaureates may also apply, subject to validation of their applications.
Students who have completed a year of L1 and have not validated 60 ECTS credits, and who wish to re-orient themselves, can also apply.
- Selection outside ParcourSup
- reorienting students,
- students from other post-baccalaureate courses,
- candidates undergoing professional retraining.
Applications will be examined by a pedagogical committee chaired by an academic from Montpellier's Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences UFR. Particular attention will be paid to the academic quality of the application, and in particular to the acquisition of prerequisites that seem essential for the student to be able to follow the DEUST courses as comfortably as possible, and to succeed in their studies. These aspects, as well as the candidate's motivation, will be assessed by means of a placement test and an interview if the candidate's application is selected.
To be able to access the training, the student must have signed an apprenticeship contract or a professionalization contract.
Access DEUST 2
- Students holding the DFGSP2 diploma, on the recommendation of the pedagogical committee chaired by an academic.
- DFGSP3 graduates: direct entry.
In order to access the training, the student must have signed an apprenticeship contract.
Access by VAE
Holders of the Brevet Professionnel de préparateur en pharmacie can obtain the DEUST Préparateur/Technicien en pharmacie diploma by validating their experience (VAE) from September 2024.
Necessary pre-requisites
The student must have a base of scientific and/or technological knowledge. He/she must be autonomous in his/her work, have good interpersonal skills and adaptability, as well as an ability to invest and get involved in the work requested. These skills will be the key to success in this training.
Recommended prerequisites
- Attraction to the healthcare professions
- Empathy
- Sense of teamwork
- Rigor
- Sense of contact
- Curiosity
And then
Further studies
- Professional degree (L3)
- Training for Hospital Pharmacy Preparers