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This complete review includes everything you need to study for and pass the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) and ExCPT exams! Review the content you'll see on the exam with handy outlines and helpful electronic flash cards, then prepare for the exam with a section on test-taking tips. Plus, you can test your knowledge with mock exams in the book and on the companion CD-ROM for even more practice.
- Tips and suggestions prepare you for test-taking success with helpful strategies and information on what to expect and how to prepare.
- A convenient outline format helps you to quickly review important information you'll see on the exam.
- Six printed mock exams feature the same format and content emphasis as the national exam.
- Ten practice exams on the Companion CD in both timed and untimed modes help you easily recognize important areas for study and identify your weaknesses.
- Over 600 electronic flash cards that cover the top 200 most prescribed pharmaceuticals, the top 50 herbals, abbreviations, and sound-alike drugs offer a quick practice tool for important information.
- Evolve Resources include everything from the Companion CD-ROM, plus appendices and internet resources, for more study opportunities.
- Mock exams have the same 100-question format used on the PTCB and ExCPT exams for a realistic test taking experience.
- The latest information on HIPPA and the Medicare Modernization Act, plus other recent pharmacy laws, keeps you up-to-date on important content featured on the PTCB exam.
- Discussions of the United States Pharmacopeia guidelines prepare you for updated material in the Compounding and Regulation sections.
- Internet resources feature links to pharmacy and PTCB and ExCPT-related web resources for access to more study tools.
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By Diem Nguyen
I passed with this book. It is a very useful study guide. There were many spelling errors and mistakes on the cd and in the book. If you know your information, you can catch this. I recommend using this.
By Kyle Joseph Mullin (Salt Lake City, Utah USA)
I bought this book after taking a class at a career college for a year, and seeing a copy of it on my pharmacy tech program director's desk. This book is also sold in Barnes and Noble, but I would recommend getting it off Amazon as it is much cheaper! Anyways, on to the review. I wasn't sure what to think of this book when I first got it. There just seemed to be so much information in there, that at times it was hard to know where to start. (Let me also just say that I took the ExCPT exam, not the PTCB as my state will recognize either one, and the ExCPT exam was cheaper and you got your results back right away, go to www.nationaltechexam.org for more info) So I started reading through the chapters one at a time. The book is split up into three sections, each focusing on a different area of the test, with Chapter review questions at the end of each Chapter. The book also contains seven practice exams, and comes with a CD-ROM that has ten more practice exams on it. I would suggest studying everything. I also liked that the practice test format was the same as on the national test, in other words there were 100 multiple choice questions on the practice tests, and 100 on the national test. I also found it helpful that on the CD-ROM there were over 600 flash cards covering brand/generic name drugs, abbreviations, supplement and vitamin information etc. Also the CD-ROM practice tests are good because there are two ways to study. You can either study by taking a timed practice test, which gives you an hour to complete the 100 questions, and you wait till the end of the test to get your feedback, or you can take an untimed test with 100 questions and get immediate feeback on whether your answer was right or wrong, as well as the rationale for why. This book covers everything you need to pass either exam, as long as you study. I also liked that the book itself had an entire section devoted to nothing but pharmacy calculations, as I thought this and the brand/generic name drugs were my weakest areas. It doesn't have the best explanations for how to solve the math problems, so I would probably get another book for that, such as the one used at my school, Calculations: The Pharmacy Technician Series as this other book is very well laid out and explains things in a logical manner. If you don't know how to convert from farenheight to celsius or your metric to household conversions and things like that before you buy the Mosby's book, then it won't help you much. I found the actual practice problems in this Mosby's book to be harder than the ones I got on the national test. The only reason for giving Mosby's four stars instead of five was because the way to solve the math problems was not explained well enough. I took my national test and passed on the first try, so if I can do it, anyone can do it. Overall, an excellent study guide. I studied during a three week break from classes, and still passed on the first attempt.
By David Aaron (North Carolina, USA)
I received almost all of my pharm tech "training" from this book, and it was excellent. I easily passed the exam, and most of the exam questions were exactly like the ones in Mosby's practice tests. It contains multiple, very useful practice exams and a bonus disc with flash cards and tests. I didn't read through the whole book (or learn all of the drug names), but I took the practice tests and reviewed what I realized I most needed to know. This is a great review tool!
By deborah l smith-sneddon (mentor, ohio, US)
The book is concise and covers only what you NEED to know. It does contain a few typos regarding abbreviations for grams and grains which can lead to confusion. The CD review is worth the money without the book; there are just short of 700 flash cards to sharpen your skills whenever you have 15 minutes to study. Great package, well presented. The CD-based tests give you instant feedback as to why the answer is wrong and improve your critical thinking skills.
By Synthesis (Roma, Italy)
Great for the law and pharmacology on the PTCE (Assisting the Pharmacist in Serving Patients). However, I would recommend a supplement to the math portion, and more practice tests'.
I used "MP Math for the Pharmacy Technician" (ISBN-10: 007729050X), and "National Exam Practice Questions with Rationale" (ASIN: B003C5RVVG), along with this book. I passed with little difficulty!!
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