GPhC Pre-Reg Exam Preparation Specialists
Here, we’ll look at a range of tips – moving from general through to more specific.Â
Let’s first consider a general tip for preparation. By now, you ought to be aware of your study style. However, it’s equally possible that you’ve made it through school and university without really pinning down what your study style is, and how you can therefore optimise your revision. Therefore, ensure that for this exam – which is challenging, although entirely manageable – you revise according to what works for you. Don’t just do what others you know are doing – for example, if you’re a visual learner, then create drawings, diagrams, and colourful notes that ensure you remember the content that you need to learn.
Ensure that you practise active learning. Try to avoid simply reading notes – instead, create notes yourself. Engage yourself as much as you can – this will help you to retain information. Ensure that you check back over content that you’ve learnt. Test yourself as you go, and use that testing to inform your further preparation. As part of this, you should get used to asking yourself why things are the way they are. Don’t just learn things by rote. Instead, learn the mechanisms that drive the answers. Learn the reasons for the answers that you will give! This will provide a far more fulfilling experience, give you more confidence, and make you a better pharmacist.
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Continuing this theme of active learning and asking questions, you must prepare yourself through studying complex cases. Remember that the exam is now based very much on patient cases – it’s a clinical exam, rather than a theoretical one. If you’re faced with a case in which the patient has multiple conditions and comorbidities, you’ll need to truly understand how the different medications being used work, and how the different facets of the patients case might interact with one another or affect the medicines in the question. If you know the mechanism of action of drugs in detail, you know all the adverse effects and interactions – and ideally even why these might happen, as far as is realistic – then you will be in a much better position to succeed in this exam than if you simply revise using theoretical questions and learning facts.
The framework should be seen as your revision Bible. You should work through the GPhC framework, make notes on it and highlight it, and then revise each outcome within it. Remember that all the outcomes in the framework can be tested in the exam – the assessment framework is a specific group of outcomes designed to be tested in the exam.Â
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Remember that you’ll be required to use the extract booklet in paper 2. This features BNF extracts, graphs, patient records, and SPCs. SPCs are particularly relevant for your revision as you may be less used to them – think through which areas of the references are likely to confuse you or be harder for you to analyse, and practise analysing them. Practising with a colleague would be sensible – as an example, you could get them to ask you questions about specific medicines, while you have a copy of the BNF or an SPC in front of you.
