The GPhC has published a framework for the assessment that candidates should use as a foundation for revision. Trainees should ensure that they have made notes on and revised each and every outcome within the framework. The assessment is not independent from material covered in the MPharm degree course so candidates should ensure that they refer to and build on their previous learning when revising. Is your product defective and the manual offers no solution? Go to a Repair Café for free repair services.

All outcomes mentioned in the GPhC framework may be tested in this paper. The GPhC has given a clear indication on the weighting of key therapeutic areas to focus on for the assessment (see ‘Table 2: Weighting of therapeutic areas’). Table 2: Weighting of therapeutic areas Therapeutic area Candidates should think about how the information in this section could be used in the assessment — for example, assessing understanding and application of law or ethics. This is a description of the active ingredients and their corresponding quantities. Clinical particulars I love the fact the equals button is the last button on the bottom-right. When doing speed calculations (yes, I am capable of that), it is instinctive to find this button due to its considered placement

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Around 20% of questions in the assessment will relate to paediatric patients so it is important this is not overlooked. The BNFC is a good resource for this. This section forms the main body of an SPC and includes information about therapeutic indications, dosage regimen and method of administration, contraindications, special warnings and precautions for use, information collated on known interactions, effects on fertility, pregnancy and lactation, effects on ability to drive and use machines, undesirable effects and overdose. Each assessment is likely to include at least one calculation question involving each of the following: If you drop your phone, there is a sudden rush of panic as you know it is going to cost a fortune to replace the screen. Ha, that’s not the case with this calculator. I bet this calculator could be on a Virgin Galactic flight with Richard Branson and it would still return in one piece. It was designed for me On the reverse, the moulded plastic has grips. Yes, grips. No slippy-slidey on the desk. The display

Calculations are all about practice so it is recommended that candidates attempt some every day during the revision period. Candidates should refer to their undergraduate notes for a refresher on how to manipulate pharmaceutical calculations. There are many books published by Pharmaceutical Press, part of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, that can be useful learning and practice tools. There are also a range of pharmaceutical calculation apps that can be accessed on smart devices for extra practice. So ask yourself ‘does my user need the equivalent to the Aurora DT210 percentage button’ when you work on your next project. Start your revision in good time. Last minute cramming is not effective for this assessment — it is about understanding and deep learning. At Scaramanga, we are a bit strange. We see beauty in things others would simply gloss over and we apply this deep thinking to every project we undertake. If you want to work with a team that sees beauty in a humble calculator and gets excited by its accessibility, then we are your guys and girls. Apple, Dyson and Audi are some of the brands that are typically associated with great product design, but they were not responsible for this marvel. Neither was Dieter Rams or Jony Ive. It was a Taiwanese company called Aurora and they, along with the original designer, deserve the same accolade as these big companies for this amazing calculator. It has outlasted all my mobile phone and still going strong.Additional Functions: Four Key Memory, Square Root, Mark Up Key, Sign Change Key, Constants Function For those with colour blindness, there is very little to get mixed up. No red/green confusion with this user interface. Just a single red button for the power on button (which doubles up as the clear function) making it extremely easy to locate. Cleverly, red is the colour universally associated with a warning which is perfect for the clear function. The only other colour used by this design is blue for the memory buttons that help identify them, but does not overpower the dark grey colour It is important that candidates do not learn by rote but rather have a deeper understanding of why certain treatments or practices occur so that they are able to make informed decisions based on individual patient cases. Trainees should be prepared to answer complex case questions that are linked to more than one therapeutic condition — for example, a patient with cardiovascular disease suffering with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

As part of their revision, candidates could review SPCs for the most common drugs that the assessment framework has highlighted as ‘high weighting’. If candidates are already familiar with these SPCs, they will feel more confident if they are assessed on them.

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Printing calculators for hard copy numbers as you crunch. Ribbon, ink, ink roller and thermal printing. The second paper is made up of 120 multiple choice questions, including 90 single best answer questions and 30 extended matching questions. This is an example of a single best answer question: Stay up to date with pharmacy law and ethics. This is an important aspect of being a qualified pharmacist and should not be neglected. The more observant will have noticed the spacing between buttons. There is enough to avoid the accidental pressing of the adjacent button. This is touchscreen interaction design, done decades before touchscreens were a thing

The assessment is broken down into two papers. The first contains calculations and the second is multiple choice questions. Bendroflumethazide, bumetanide and indapamide are all diuretics that commonly cause hypokalaemia as a side effect. These would not be an appropriate choice for this patient because hypokalaemia may potentiate digitalis toxicity. Lisinopril may cause hyperkalaemia as a side effect but would not be the most suitable choice for this patient, because they need diuretic therapy. Amiloride is a potassium sparing diuretic that may be used to manage the hypokalaemia, which is causing the possible toxicity. Link everything you are revising together. For example, if you are revising about opioids, consider the law, how to prescribe, store and dispense the medicines, the World Health Organization’s analgesic ladder, pharmaceutical aspects etc. I was never good at mathematics. Working out a percentage, although simple, was strangely a challenge for me. Divide what you have by what it is, times 100 or something like that. No need with this calculator as it has a percentage button. How good is that! It is so simple, even my grandma would understand how to use it

In paper 2 you will be provided with an extract booklet containing additional artefacts. This could have extracts from the British National Formulary (BNF), BNF for Children, medication charts, patient medication records and summaries of product characteristics (SPCs). Such extracts are helpful when assessing candidates’ application of science to practice. Which of the following medicines would be the most suitable to prescribe for Mrs RT to help reduce the risk of toxicity? It has great affordance (affordances are properties of objects which show users the actions they can take). Simply put, you know they are buttons that need pushing. Practical, accessible design Scientific calculators for advanced calculations involving list-based statistics, logarithms, regression models, trigonometric functions, factorials, randomisation, statistical tests (correlation, etc.) and functions (standard deviation, mean, etc.), polynomial and simultaneous equations, calculus (integration, derivatives). Essential for maths and applied maths and science students. The information contained in this section may be of particular importance if the question requires candidates to select the most appropriate dose or regimen for a patient with hepatic or renal insufficiency or is deficient in a particular liver enzyme, for example. Pharmaceutical particulars