Studying for pharmacy technician EXCPT exam

Captain Action

Any advice anyone?

I'm rock solid on the math parts and law. But I'm struggling with the multitudes of brand/generic drug names. Are there any online study aides?

Feral

I've never studied for this exam, but when I've needed to cross reference drugs and brand names for work, I use a copy of Mosby's Drug Consult. They don't have the online service anymore unfortunately but the print copy is $40.

How many drugs do you need to know? Could you just make flash cards?

The_Glad_Hatter

if you've got enough time 'till the exam, do flashcards. Even add mnemonics to the cards if they work for you.

Captain Action

I haven't signed up for the test yet. So it looks like flash cards then.

On a side note, when you put "excpt pharmacy technicians" into google the 5th result is this thread!

Aphostile

I had the benefit of working in a pharmacy for some time before I took the exam, so I picked up on a lot of the brand/generic names.

Make sure to know the major ones. That's the ones they care about.

Captain Action

Sorry to necro-post but I figured I had something to post about.

I passed!

I didn't I would but the studying the key letters in the drug names worked very well for me.

Stuff like :

-mycin
-cod
-cillin

That saved my ass. 407 out of 500!

Now I got to volunteer at the local free clinic because no pharmacy will hire without any experience. (Some kinda of training phobia)

Fats

Congratulations.

stawk

woot