Technician membership
Stay connected and informed as part of your rapidly-growing community, with opportunities to share and pool your knowledge while supporting our advocacy for the growth of Pharmacy Technician and Assistant roles.
Technician membership fee: $245 (inc. GST)
Instalment fees: Half-yearly $130 • Quarterly $68 • Monthly $24
Eligibility: A pharmacy technician or assistant, qualified by training or experience, to carry out functions and activities that do not require professional judgement by a pharmacist in a hospital or other medical establishment. See AdPha's constitution for a full definition.
Technician membership benefits:
Free and discounted access to CPD
- $120 off registration to Medicines Management, AdPha's annual conference
- 20% saving on all national seminars
- Free registration for Branch webinars
- Discounted registration for Branch symposia
- Free access to self-paced education via Online CPD
- Contribute to local learning and networking through AdPha Branch committees
Leadership + Innovation
- Discounted access to Executive Coaching
- Nominate for Branch Committee positions
Specialty Practice
- Join Specialty Practice Groups via Communities
- Apply to become a Verified Member in your chosen specialty or specialties
- Nominate for election to Leadership Committees
- Contribute to clinical education across 30+ specialty areas
- Build networks of peers via online communities
- Consult and share information with members, key stakeholders and government
- Real-time answers to clinical questions via discussion forums
- Opportunities to peer review research in JPPR
- Shape AdPha Standards of Practice, informing national delivery of specialty hospital pharmacy services
Policy + Advocacy
- Participate in special advisory projects
- Contribute to policy submissions
- Effect local-level change through AdPha Branch committees
- Centralised access to policy and medicines submissions
- Centralised access to position statements, practice updates and fact sheets
- Weekly notification of medicines shortages
Resources + Publications
- Free access to thousands of full-text journal articles via EBSCOhost
- Free access to high quality, evidence-based information via DynaMed
- Free access to the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research (JPPR) and GRIT
- $35 off the Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook
- $50 off Don't Rush to Crush
- Free access to AdPha Standards of Practice through JPPR
Recognition + Reward
- AdPhaM postnominal (FAdPha or FSHP for Fellows)
- AdPha Award eligibility
- Branch Award eligibility
- Members' Award eligibility
- Award voting rights