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NHA asks for a high school diploma or its equivalent, or being within 60 days of finishing one, and then either a pharmacy technician training program from an accredited or state-recognized institution, military pharmacy training included, or 1,200 hours of supervised pharmacy work experience inside any one year of the past 3. PTCB runs the same 2 shapes with a shorter experience route at 500 hours.

Not without PTCB certification first. PTCB says plainly that it doesn't transfer credentials from other organizations, so its CSPT and its assessment-based certificates start with sitting the PTCE under one of PTCB's own routes. For someone already working in a pharmacy that's an exam to book, since the experience route asks 500 hours.

Check the board's own approved list before booking either one. Texas, for instance, writes the requirement without naming anybody: its rule asks for a pharmacy technician certification examination approved by the board (22 TAC 297.3(c)(1)(B)(i)), and the approved list is where PTCB's and NHA's exams appear or don't. That list is the board's to change, which is why it's worth reading it yourself rather than a school's summary of it.