Cambodia Pharmacy Exit Exam study plan

Map all major drug classes to receptor targets, mechanisms, and hallmark adverse effects using a self-built one-page table per class.

Explain dose-response curves, potency versus efficacy, therapeutic index, and agonist/antagonist terminology without notes.

Derive first-line therapy choices for hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and uncomplicated pneumonia, stating the guideline logic behind each choice.

Solve 40 applied pharmacology scenarios (drug selection, contraindications, interactions) and log every wrong answer with the reason.

Apply pharmacokinetic parameters (volume of distribution, clearance, half-life, bioavailability) to calculate loading and maintenance doses for 10 worked cases.

Construct monitoring plans for narrow-therapeutic-index drugs covering which parameter to measure, when, and the action threshold.

Classify 25 adverse drug reactions by mechanism and severity and propose a management step for each.

Practice a structured pharmaceutical care plan (assessment, problem list, goals, interventions, follow-up) for 5 patient vignettes.

Compare tablets, capsules, suspensions, emulsions, suppositories, and sterile products by formulation rationale, excipient roles, and typical failure modes.

Explain the manufacturing quality chain from raw material testing through in-process controls to finished-product release and stability testing.

Calculate compounding quantities, percentage concentrations, dilution and alligation problems, and isotonicity adjustments for 20 practice items.

Interpret a stability data set to assign a shelf life and justify storage conditions.

Interpret UV-Vis, IR, HPLC, GC, and titration outputs, identifying which technique answers which quality question.

Assign identification tests and impurity limits for five active pharmaceutical ingredients based on pharmacopoeial logic.

Explain the medicinal chemistry rationale linking functional groups to solubility, ionization, metabolism, and receptor binding for common drug families.

Distinguish validation parameters (accuracy, precision, specificity, linearity, limit of detection and quantitation) and apply them to a method-validation scenario.

Process 15 mock prescriptions end to end: verify legality, screen for interactions and dosing errors, label correctly, and document the intervention.

Draft a patient counselling script for five high-risk situations (new anticoagulant, inhaler technique, antibiotic adherence, paediatric dosing, pregnancy caution).

Summarize Cambodian requirements for licensing, prescription retention, controlled-substance handling, and prohibited advertising, citing the responsible authority.

Resolve six ethics vignettes (confidentiality, dispensing error disclosure, conflict of interest, refusal to dispense) with a defensible reasoning chain.

Build a min-max inventory model for a 20-item pharmacy and calculate reorder points, safety stock, and order quantities.

Compare procurement options on lead time, price, quality assurance, and stockout risk, and select one with written justification.

Compute cost-effectiveness and cost-minimization values for two treatment alternatives and state the decision implication.

Profile ten medicinal plants used in Cambodian practice by active constituents, evidence level, and safety cautions.

Map Cambodia's priority national health programmes to the pharmacist's specific role in each.

Design a health-education session for a defined community audience with measurable learning objectives and evaluation method.

Critically appraise one published study: identify design, bias risk, effect size, confidence interval, and applicability to local practice.

Explain sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and number needed to treat using a worked screening example.

Complete two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score each domain separately.

Re-teach every missed concept from the mock exams in writing, then re-test those items after 48 hours.

Consolidate all domain summaries into a single rapid-review sheet limited to high-yield facts and decision rules.

Rehearse counselling, dispensing-error, and law-ethics scenarios aloud to build fluent, structured verbal responses.