Revision guides for trainee pharmacists
Short guides on the topics trainees search for while revising for the registration assessment. Each one lists the sources it was written from.
Not affiliated with the General Pharmaceutical Council. These guides are for revision only. They are not clinical or legal advice, and their worked examples use invented numbers. Check a current source before you rely on any point.
Start here
- How to revise for the registration assessment. A revision plan, built on the regulator's published documents.
- How to use PharmRevise. How the practice, review and progress tools work.
Calculations
- Pharmacy calculations: nine worked examples. One worked example for each calculation type.
- Displacement values. Reconstituting powder injections.
- Infusion rates and drip rates. mL/hour, drops/minute and dose rates.
- Percentage and ratio strengths, and dilutions. w/v, w/w, v/v and 1 in x.
- Doses by body weight and body surface area. mg/kg and mg/m2, divided doses and caps.
Clinical and law
- Controlled drug schedules and record-keeping. What the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 say.
- How to read an SmPC quickly. Which section answers which question.
- Pregnancy prevention programmes. Valproate and topiramate.
- Sick day rules. Which medicines to pause, and why.
Study method
- Extended matching questions. A method, plus a practice set.
- A revision timetable around foundation training. A worked hours budget.
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