gphc pre reg exam 2014 Schedule

Period	Plan
September to October	Acclimatise to your new environment, get to know the patients and the different clinicians that you will be working with. Learn where the different surgeries are and all the different services provided by your new pharmacy. You should be past this point at the moment, however if you do not feel fully confident in this area do not neglect it! The GPhC Exam has become more and more patient focused so make sure you know how to deal with customers! Browse through the BNF, Tariff, MEP and get a good minor ailments book.
October to November	Once you have gained a little more confidence in your abilities, use them. Try counselling patients under the supervision of the pharmacist and get as much feedback as you can about your performance. If you are criticised, take note and improve on these areas. Make sure you are revising regularly. Your pre-reg tutor is essentially paid by the government to tutor you effectively if you are not happy complain to the GPhC. Know you drugs, at this point you should know every drug which you use.
November to December	Concentrate on the competencies, there is no recommended amount that you should complete. You need to show that you are competent in all the aspects of the syllabus. On average students complete 200-300 competencies every year. This may not be useful for you, however it needs to be done as it provides a legal paper trail that the pharmacist has tutored you. At this point you should have read thoroughly the first 4 BNF chapters.
December to February	At this stage it is best to increase the intensity of your revision, learn something from it and then utilise it in practice. This way you will have an incidence in mind as a reference which will help you remember the information better. Remember your pre-reg year is not just about learning to pass the exam, think further, the skills you learn in this year will enable you to become the best pharmacist you can be. Think to yourself will I be able to do this job once I am a pharmacist? At this point you should have finished annotating and tagging BNF/Tariff.
February to April	Complete your competencies so that you can concentrate on revision in the following months. This is also a good time to start practising calculations. Prepare to finish all competencies and aim to finish two full exam papers.
April to May	By this time all your competencies should be complete and you should almost be ready to be signed off by your tutor. Make sure you are enrolled correctly for the exam and you know which exam centre you will attend. Send off you competencies to the governing body.
May to June	Students usually reserve 2-4 weeks of holiday time for just before their exam to swot up. Make sure before the exam that you have completed as many exam questions as possible (ie all on the PCPA website) and you feel confident in calculations. Keep in mind the GPhC Exam has significantly changed in the past couple of years (this is why the pass rate has dramatically fallen) people use past GPhC exam and expect the same this year, this is not so. Join Pharmacycpa.com for questions which have been written from the NEW syllabus and get access to a dedicated online tutor! Do all questions you can and start INTENSIVELY revising!