Greek Pharmacist License study guide
Greek Pharmacist License · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Greek pharmacist licence (άδεια άσκησης επαγγέλματος φαρμακοποιού) is the professional authorisation that lets a graduate in pharmacy practise in Greece - as a community or hospital pharmacist, in a laboratory, in industry or in the wider supply chain. It is issued through the competent Greek authority, and applicants normally hold a recognised pharmacy degree or an officially recognised equivalent qualification, together with the other documentation the authority requires. The Greek Pharmacist License study guide has 9 sections and about 6,082 words.
01Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
This domain tests whether you can move from a molecular structure or a physicochemical constant to a predicted behaviour in the body - ionisation, lipophilicity, stereochemistry, metabolism and the structural logic behind drug design. Items usually give a structure, a pKa, a logP or a metabolic pathway and ask for a quantitative or qualitative prediction.
568 words, about 3 min02Pharmacognosy and Natural Products
This domain examines crude drugs and herbal medicinal products: botanical source, active constituent class, identification reactions, standardisation and the European regulatory route for herbal products. Questions frequently pair a drug name with its plant family, its marker compound or its chemical class.
518 words, about 3 min03Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutics tests dosage-form design and the physicochemical principles that determine whether a drug is released, dissolved and absorbed as intended: solubility, dissolution, polymorphism, excipient function, stability and isotonicity. Expect numerical items on tonicity adjustment and stability kinetics.
543 words, about 3 min04Pharmaceutical Technology and Compounding
This domain covers industrial manufacture and extemporaneous compounding: unit operations, tablet and capsule technology, sterilisation, cleanroom classification, validation, and the rules and calculations used when a preparation is made in the pharmacy. Moist-heat sterilisation in an autoclave: 121 °C for 15 minutes at about 1 bar overpressure (15 psi); the cycle is validated by F₀ and biological indicators (Geobacillus stearothermophilus).
523 words, about 3 min05Pharmacology and Toxicology
Pharmacology and toxicology tests receptor theory, quantitative pharmacokinetics, drug interactions and the recognition and management of poisoning. Numerical items on loading dose, clearance and half-life are common, as are antidote-matching questions.
454 words, about 2 min06Pharmacotherapy and Clinical Pharmacy
This domain tests the application of guideline-based therapy to individual patients, with emphasis on treatment targets, drug selection, dose individualisation in renal and hepatic impairment, and monitoring. Questions are usually short clinical vignettes.
437 words, about 2 min07Pharmaceutical Care
Pharmaceutical care concerns the pharmacist's shared responsibility for a patient's drug therapy outcomes. It tests the care model, the classification of drug therapy problems, the tools used to assess and document therapy, and the practical services a Greek community pharmacy provides.
488 words, about 2 min08Dispensing and Patient Counselling
This domain tests the legal and technical act of dispensing a prescription and the communication that must accompany it. Items cover prescription validity and content, prescription-only classification, generic substitution and structured counselling for high-risk medicines.
533 words, about 3 min09Pharmacy Legislation, Ethics and Professional Practice in Greece
This domain tests the legal framework of pharmacy practice in Greece and the ethical duties that attach to the profession: licensing, ownership, the competences of the national regulator, advertising, controlled substances, confidentiality and professional conduct. European Union law sets the frame: Directive 2001/83/EC on medicinal products for human use, Regulation 726/2004 on the centralised procedure and the European Medicines Agency, Directive 2011/62/EU on falsified medicines, and the GMP and GDP guidelines.
2,018 words, about 10 min