The main areas you need to concentrate on as a pre-registration student are calculations, this should be your priority at the moment make sure you practice as much as possible with the PCPA resources and past GPhC exams. If you use GPhC Pharmacy exams remember that the exam has significantly changed in the past few years, they have made it more pragmatically focused, meaning they will give you more scenarios about pharmacy practice, think of more questions like a patient comes into your pharmacy and asks for… and you will be on the right track.
Also at this point of the year you need to fully review the BNF make sure you know all the different sections. I should be able to ask you about ferric conversion, ions in secretions, morphine conversions, steroid cream recommendations and you should know what Im talking about and be able to refer to the correct section of the BNF.
Furthermore, you should be familiar with the legalities of prescriptions. The GPhC have recently taken off the MEP as a reference source for the open book exam, however, this does not make it irrelevant for the rest of the exam. You should know the parameters as to which makes a legal prescriptions. Here are a few spot checks, i.e. questions that the may ask during the GPhC Exam...
- Is age necessary on a prescription for it to be legal?
- Is the patients address necessary? What if the patient has "NFA" (No fixed abode) is this a legal prescription?
- Does the doctors signature have to match the printed doctors name on the prescription?
- Is the counterpart section on a MDA form a legal requirement to be filled in?
- Can an independent pharmacist prescriber, prescribe controlled drugs?
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