CT MPJE study plan
CT MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Connecticut Pharmacy Practice Act: licensure, registration, and scope of practice & Prescription requirements, dispensing, and labeling
Map Connecticut pharmacist licensure, technician registration, and pharmacy permit requirements, including renewal cycles and CE hour obligations, into a single comparison table.
Differentiate prescriptive authority and dispensing limits by practitioner type (physician, APRN, PA, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian) under Connecticut law.
Draft the complete list of required prescription elements for a Connecticut prescription and mark which elements are federal baseline versus state additions.
Outline refill, transfer, and emergency-supply rules and annotate each entry with the authority that establishes it.
Your checkpoint
A two-page annotated chart of licensure pathways plus a citation-backed prescription-element checklist, self-graded against the statute with no more than two gaps.
Prescription requirements, dispensing, and labeling & Controlled substances: federal CSA and Connecticut requirements, prescription monitoring program
Apply Connecticut substitution and labeling requirements to ten written sample prescription scenarios and record the correct label content for each.
Classify 60 drug names into CSA schedules and flag every instance where Connecticut placement or handling diverges from the federal schedule.
Compute valid refill and partial-fill outcomes for Schedule II through V prescriptions under both federal and Connecticut rules, stating which rule controls in each case.
List prescription monitoring program query, reporting, and delegation requirements alongside the timeframe attached to each.
Your checkpoint
A 25-item self-written quiz on labeling, substitution, and controlled substance scheduling, completed at 80% or better with a written explanation for every missed item.
Controlled substances: federal CSA and Connecticut requirements, prescription monitoring program
Build a sequential controlled substance dispensing workflow that captures prescriber verification, patient identification, quantity and supply limits, and PMP checkpoints.
Distinguish federal CSA thresholds from stricter Connecticut rules for each schedule and record every point where state law controls.
Identify red flags for forged, altered, or early controlled substance prescriptions and write the corresponding refusal and documentation steps.
Summarize PMP data access, delegate registration, and mandatory review triggers in a short written brief.
Your checkpoint
A one-page controlled substance decision tree plus a 15-case set of suspicious prescription scenarios scored at 100% on the refusal-and-documentation items.
Patient counseling, drug utilization review, and patient safety & Recordkeeping, documentation, and retention requirements
List the elements of a compliant counseling offer and the specific situations in which counseling may be omitted or declined.
Apply prospective drug utilization review steps to ten prescriptions containing interactions, dose errors, or therapeutic duplication, documenting the intervention for each.
Map retention periods for prescriptions, controlled substance records, compounding logs, and counseling documentation by record type.
Describe error-reporting and quality-improvement documentation obligations that apply to Connecticut pharmacies.
Your checkpoint
A one-page record-retention matrix (record type, retention period, authority) plus a ten-case DUR worksheet with each intervention documented in the correct format.
Compounding: sterile and nonsterile preparations & Recordkeeping, documentation, and retention requirements
Differentiate sterile versus nonsterile compounding requirements for facilities, personnel training, and environmental monitoring.
Outline the decision steps used to assign a beyond-use date for both compounded sterile preparations and nonsterile preparations.
Describe the documentation required for each compounded prescription or order, including master formula and compounding record content.
Identify Connecticut oversight and any additional licensure or registration triggers that apply to compounding pharmacies.
Your checkpoint
A two-column sterile versus nonsterile requirements checklist covering facility, garb, air quality, beyond-use dating, and documentation, with no missing rows against the governing standard.
Drug distribution in institutional, long-term care, and other licensed settings & Federal laws affecting pharmacy practice (FDCA, DSCSA, REMS, privacy)
Compare prescription transfer, labeling, and record requirements across community, institutional, and long-term care pharmacy settings.
Summarize automated dispensing system, unit-dose distribution, and emergency kit controls used in institutional practice.
Outline DSCSA transaction information requirements and the obligations of each trading partner through the dispensing endpoint.
Explain REMS elements and how pharmacy duties differ by REMS type, then outline HIPAA and Connecticut confidentiality limits on disclosing patient information.
Your checkpoint
A setting-by-setting comparison table of dispensing and record rules plus a 15-question quiz on DSCSA, REMS, and privacy scored at 80% or higher.
Connecticut Pharmacy Practice Act: licensure, registration, and scope of practice & Controlled substances: federal CSA and Connecticut requirements, prescription monitoring program
Recite Connecticut licensure, renewal, and CE requirements from memory without notes.
Re-solve every controlled substance item missed in weeks two and three and write the governing rule beside each correction.
Reconcile federal versus Connecticut conflicts into a single stricter-rule-controls reference sheet.
Complete 40 timed licensure and controlled substance questions at exam pacing to build speed and stamina.
Your checkpoint
A from-memory rebuilt cheat sheet for the licensure and controlled substance domains, cross-checked against the statute and showing no more than three corrections.
Connecticut Pharmacy Practice Act: licensure, registration, and scope of practice & Prescription requirements, dispensing, and labeling
Complete two full-length 100-question timed exams spanning all eight domains.
Convert every missed item into a one-line rule statement in a running error log.
Re-drill the highest-frequency error categories until repeat misses fall to zero.
Rehearse exam-day mechanics: target time per item, flag-and-return strategy, and a closing review pass.
Your checkpoint
Two completed full-length exams with a closed error log; the second score at least five points above the first and at least 75% overall.
Milestones
Week 2: Score 80% or higher on the week two self-written quiz and, without notes, list the required elements of a Connecticut prescription in the correct order.
Week 4: Complete a 50-question cumulative mini-exam covering domains one through three at 75% or better, and reproduce the record-retention matrix from memory with no more than three errors.
Week 6: Explain aloud, in under five minutes each, the differences among community, institutional, and long-term care dispensing rules and the full DSCSA transaction chain, with no factual gaps.
Week 8: Score at least 75% on the final full-length exam with the second attempt outperforming the first, and show an error log in which no rule was missed twice.