As Parcoursup opens this Wednesday, January 17, a new work-study diploma is being created in Nîmes

Pharmaciens, préparateurs en pharmacie et corps pédagogique se félicitaient de ce nouveau diplôme. Midi Libre – E. Be

A Deust work-study program as pharmacy technician technician will open at the start of the next school year at the Alzon Institute, in Nîmes, in partnership with the Montpellier Faculty of Pharmacy.

The diploma was already offered in Alès or Marguerittes and, from the next school year, in Nîmes, thanks to a partnership between the Alzon Institute and the Faculty of Pharmacy of Montpellier. With the Deust (Diploma of scientific and technical university studies) pharmacy technician preparer, around thirty work-study places will be accessible to neo-bachelors (general or technological baccalaureates), but also to Pass n' having not had access to health sectors or to candidates undergoing professional retraining.

Positions to fill

Varied profiles therefore, to train for a profession where listening and empathy are primary qualities. And where, for future graduates, the job market crisis does not exist. Because the twenty-five pharmacy representatives, present this Tuesday, January 16 at Alzon to discover the content of the diploma, agreed on one point: the difficulty of recruiting new pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

"Since Covid, where demand has exploded, we are still in tight flow in our profession, confided Clotilde Lebarazer. Faced with the lack of general practitioners, we are having more and more transfers of skills, such as vaccination or patient monitoring." The Nîmes pharmacist does not hide the strong social dimension of the profession. 

A lack of attractiveness of the sector noted

"How are you going to motivate people who are 16-17 years old to become pharmacy technicians when some customers consider us as supermarket cashiers who scan boxes& ;nbsp;?", launched this professional, in the face of faculty representatives who recognized a "lack of positive publicity around this profession", "but we are also lacking pharmacists, the entire sector is experiencing a loss of attractiveness", added Florence Bichon, educational manager. 

More generally, while the always very delicate Parcoursup opens this Wednesday, January 17, Yvan Lachaud noted that "education has changed, we must adapt to demand. The general director, whose institute was asked to set up this new diploma, recalling the importance, on work-study training, of field feedback to "stick as closely as possible to your expectations".