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Study Routine for Phamacy Technician Certification Test

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Aman Agarwal
Study Routine for Phamacy Technician Certification Test

So far my study routine has been like this :

Study a few minutes with BYKI. I’ve completed making card sets for the Top 200 Drugs (brand name and generics), Common Greek and Latin Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes (not really necessary, but it helps me learn and memorize what conditions drugs are used for) and Sig Codes for prescriptions. I have a lot of other sets to make, and I put in a few minutes a night adding to new sets.

When I’m done with the online course, I’ll review with Mike Johnstons Fundamentals of Pharmacy Practice and take lots more practice questions and practice tests with the Q and A Review for the Pharmacy Technician.

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So far I haven’t had trouble with anything. Having a few months of on-the-job experienced has obviously helped a lot. I review things at work everyday, and the pharmacists are there to answer any questions I have. I’ve got my authorization to take the PTCE, I just need to schedule it.

I’ve decided on an online pharmacy technician certification course. I’ve bought a course with http://www.pharmacytrainer.com/ It’s about the same price (or less) than I would pay if I got (yet another) pharmacy technican study book.

It certainly can’t be much worse than others, and it might even be good enough. I’ve gone through the first 6 chapters easily enough. There’s not much there that I haven’t already learned from other sources, but I do like the presentation.

It’s simple and in plain English where it should be. Things appear to be laid out well. I’ll post updates as I go along and then eventually a full review.

After I had started working as a pharmacy technician, I began to look around for some study materials to begin studying for certification. The first thing I got was Q&A Review for the Pharmacy Technician (by Stoogenke and Le). This is basically just review questions and practice tests for pharmacy tecnician exams.

As I looked over these practice tests, I began to identify areas where my on-the-job-training wasn’t going to teach me what I need to pass the test. So, I looked for some other study materials.

Most of the books I found were not reviewed well on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. They all seemed to have some kind of problems or were lacking something, at least according to some of the reviewers.

I decided to get one other book - Fundamentals of Pharmacy Practice by Mike Johnston of the NPTA. I won’t do a full review until I read the whole thing, but it is clear that the book is just part of their Pharmacy Technician series, and you need the whole set to get the most out of it. Unfortunately, that would be expensive. I’m not looking to spend that much preparing for this test.

So, I’m looking for some other source to fill in the gaps in my training. I think an online training course might work well for me if I can find one reasonable in price and the promise of a good return on my money.

When I settle on something, I’ll post it with my thoughts on how it compares to other methods of preparing for the pharmacy technician certification test. And of course, full reviews of any other books or learning materials I get.

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