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CT MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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.

Week 2

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.

Week 3

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.

Week 4

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.

Week 5

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.

Week 6

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.

Week 7

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.

Week 8

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.