Lebanon Pharmacy Colloquium study plan

Map the 20% pharmacology weight against the calendar and split the domain into receptor pharmacology, autonomic drugs, CNS drugs, cardiovascular drugs, antimicrobials, and endocrine drugs

Explain agonist/antagonist, partial agonism, inverse agonism, and dose-response curve shifts aloud without notes

Build a one-page drug-class table for autonomic agents listing receptor selectivity, main therapeutic use, and the single most dangerous adverse effect for each class

Solve 25 autonomic and receptor-pharmacology vignettes and tag every wrong answer by failure mode (mechanism, dose, contraindication, or interaction)

Compare pharmacokinetic parameters (bioavailability, volume of distribution, clearance, half-life) and predict how hepatic or renal impairment changes dosing

Contrast immediate-release, extended-release, enteric-coated, and osmotic oral dosage forms in terms of release mechanism and counseling points

Explain first-pass metabolism and identify five drugs whose oral bioavailability is markedly reduced by it

Answer 30 mixed pharmacology and pharmaceutics items and record the reasoning chain for each correct answer

Apply the pharmaceutical care process (assessment, care plan, follow-up) to hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and asthma cases

Draft counseling scripts for metered-dose inhaler technique, insulin pen use, and warfarin initiation using plain language

Identify drug-related problems in five written patient vignettes and rank them by urgency

Demonstrate how to check for interactions and duplications in a polypharmacy list of eight or more medicines

Summarize Lebanese pharmacy practice rules on dispensing, prescription requirements, controlled substances, and pharmacy ownership/management

Distinguish the roles of the Lebanese Order of Pharmacists and the Ministry of Health in licensing, inspection, and professional discipline

Apply an ethical decision framework to conflicts such as dispensing without a prescription, substitution, and refusal to dispense

Calculate retail price, margin, and markup on a dispensed item and explain the difference between markup on cost and margin on price

Relate functional groups to physicochemical behavior: ionization, logP, solubility, and stability liabilities

Explain prodrug design and identify why a given prodrug improves absorption or reduces gastrointestinal irritation

Classify major natural-product classes (alkaloids, glycosides, terpenoids, flavonoids) by biosynthetic origin and typical pharmacological activity

Match ten well-known plant-derived drugs to their source plant, active constituent class, and principal clinical use

Classify adverse drug reactions by mechanism (Type A to D) and distinguish them from excipient reactions and medication errors

Outline the initial management of acute poisoning by organophosphate, paracetamol, benzodiazepine, and iron overdose, including antidote where one exists

Describe the pharmacovigilance reporting pathway in Lebanon, including what constitutes a serious adverse event and expected reporting timelines

Interpret incidence, prevalence, relative risk, and number needed to treat in a short epidemiological scenario

Explain manufacturing and quality concepts: good manufacturing practice basics, stability testing, and why storage conditions matter for dispensed products

Compare bioavailability and bioequivalence criteria and explain what a generic product must demonstrate

Perform a basic pharmacoeconomic comparison using cost-minimization and cost-effectiveness logic on two treatment options

Evaluate inventory decisions using ABC analysis and reorder-point reasoning for a community pharmacy

Complete two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and record raw scores by domain

Re-teach the five weakest concepts from the mock exams in writing, each in under 150 words

Rehearse rapid recall of high-yield lists: antidotes, CYP inhibitors and inducers, pregnancy contraindications, and Lebanese dispensing rules

Finalize a one-page pre-exam summary sheet limited to facts you repeatedly missed