It is time to decide.  High school students have to make decisions that will impact the rest of their lives.  Plans, careers and income will depend on decisions made during high school years that create opportunities. RCB provides students with what they need to enter the best job market in Arizona and the United States with our Pharmacy Technician and other medical programs.

Why do we teach medical?  Because with the certifications that we prepare students to receive, a good job is practically guaranteed.  While not all students are interested in medical, ALL should be interested in financial opportunity and having jobs that make a difference.

In community colleges and private and public colleges, the programs that we offer for FREE to our High School Students would cost them hundreds, even thousands of dollars.  These programs are for jobs that are in high demand, and so the classes in these colleges have long waiting lists.  At RCB, we believe in giving our students opportunities: the only price we ask is that our students be DEDICATED.

Committed students who have completed our program are involved in post-secondary medical education, have high-paying, high-opportunity jobs in nursing facilities and pharmacies.  These students and their weekly paychecks are proof that RCB Medical Arts Academy is having an impact on the lives of teens and young adults, as well as the medical community.

Overview of Current Program

LEVEL I

* Prerequisite courses for Pharmacy Technician and other programs.

Medical Careers – This course involves health career exploration and job preparation and placement skills.

Medical Terminology 1 & 2 – This course reviews basic anatomy and medical terminology used as language of the health professional both written and oral.  It is a pre-requisite for any college medical career course as well.

LEVEL II

* Co-requisite courses for Pharmacy Technician and other programs

HOSA – This course is designed to prepare students for professional competition and includes CPR certification, personal and community health issues and communication.

Medical Math

Basic medical math including how to read prescriptions, how to convert doctor’s instructions into the proper dosage and quantity of medicine, calculating pricing and percentage solutions and preparations.

Any student wishing to enter a Level III class without appropriate Level I completion must interview with the instructor and have instructor permission in writing. In addition, all Level III students are required to be a member in HOSA as an integral part of professional organization and leadership.

LEVEL III

Pharmacy Technician Track

Individuals are eligible for employment as a Pharmacy Technician upon attainment of their high school diploma and a passing score on the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam. This exam is computer based and can be taken at various locations within the Phoenix area.

PHM 101-Fundamentals of Pharmacy Technician

An introduction to the role of the pharmacy tech. and related fields of Pharmacology, patient information, documentation and corrections, file and inventory

PHM 102-Pharmacy Technician II

Competency areas include preparation and distribution of medication, differentiation between drug classifications, use of inventory control, documentation. Pharmacy Law and ethics

PHM103- Pharmacy Technician III

Prepares students to meet the criteria for their national certification exam. This includes work onsite and offsite with mentors and extensive experience and preparation for meeting the final standards of Pharmacy Technicians.

We need to be preparing young people for growingjob markets.  And the largest area of job growth in the United States is in the medical fields.  This is why RCB Medical Arts Academy focuses on medical careers and offers courses in medical terminology, medical mathematics, Pharmacy 1-3, occupational health systems, CNA and HOSA.

Students in our Pharmacy Support Services Program are prepared to take the National Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination that is given by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. RCB pays for the exam for students who complete our course of studies.  The course of studies provides one and a half credits in Pharmacy and experience in a medical assisting environment, and are designed to teach students how to assist Pharmacists in serving patients, how to maintain medication and inventory control systems and the administration of pharmacy practice.  Such certification is a basic requirement to work in this expanding industry.

For more information about certification, please go to www.ptcb.org.

Jobs are becoming harder to keep in America.  For teens, jobs were hard to get before the current economic crisis.  Studies indicate most employers do not wish to hire high school students because, for the most part, they lack the basic skills that are required of a good employee, the "soft skills" that make employees valuable to a company.

At RCB Medical Arts Academy, we believe that great employees make great students and vice-versa!  Based on what business and industry have demanded, "soft-skills," we have developed a system of educating students based on workplace expectations, and eight skill-set areas for which students are evaluated as “employees.”

COMMITMENT TO QUALITY
SELF-MOTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT
ADAPTABILITY
PREPAREDNESS
SOCIAL SKILLS
TEAM WORK
ATTENDANCE
PUNCTUALITY

Please take a look at our Employability Rubric to see our expectations.  This rubric was not designed by educators, but the marks of a good employee were developed by members of the business community.

 Employability Rubric

Young people "employed" as students at RCB receive an employee evaluation every three weeks to measure their improvement in skills that will make them assets in any workplace.

 Employee Evaluation

If students do something in class that would not fly in the workplace they receive a receprimand or a Notice of Termination.  When a student is removed from class, here is the Notice he or she will receive, based on the rubric above:

 Notice of Termination