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MO MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Missouri Pharmacy Practice Act, Board of Pharmacy rules, and scope of practice

  • Outline the structure of the Missouri Pharmacy Practice Act (statutory chapters governing pharmacy) into a one-page skeleton: licensing, scope, discipline, and enforcement.

  • Map each major Board of Pharmacy rule chapter to the practice area it controls (facility standards, personnel, dispensing, records).

  • Write plain-language definitions for pharmacist, pharmacy technician, pharmacy intern, and pharmacy, and note where each term's authority lives.

  • List the grounds for Board discipline and the sequence of a complaint from filing to final order.

  • Recite the scope-of-practice boundaries for technician and intern tasks without referring to notes.

Your checkpoint

A single-page annotated outline of the Practice Act and Board rule chapters, plus a closed-book self-quiz scored at 80% or better on scope-of-practice items.

Week 2

Missouri Pharmacy Practice Act, Board of Pharmacy rules, and scope of practice & Federal Controlled Substances Act and Missouri controlled substance requirements

  • Diagram the workflow for new prescriptions, refills, transfers, and partial fills under Missouri rules, noting where pharmacist verification is legally required.

  • Explain Missouri requirements for collaborative practice agreements, immunizations, and other expanded pharmacist authorities, and note which require additional certification or Board notification.

  • Build a schedule-by-schedule table of controlled substances under the federal Controlled Substances Act, listing examples and the corresponding dispensing constraints.

  • Compare federal and Missouri controlled substance scheduling and identify where Missouri imposes stricter requirements than federal law.

  • Draft a checklist of Missouri controlled substance prescription content requirements that must appear on a face-valid prescription.

Your checkpoint

A two-column comparison table (federal vs. Missouri) covering scheduling and controlled substance prescription content, reviewed against course notes with every discrepancy corrected.

Week 3

Federal Controlled Substances Act and Missouri controlled substance requirements

  • Recite Missouri rules on controlled substance recordkeeping, biennial inventory, and the timeframe for submitting dispensing data to the state prescription monitoring program.

  • Explain who must register with and query the Missouri prescription monitoring program, and describe permitted and required disclosures of monitoring data.

  • List the reporting obligations that apply when a pharmacy discovers a loss, theft, or significant discrepancy in controlled substances.

  • Distinguish the prescription validity limits for Schedule II, III, IV, and V drugs under Missouri law, including refill and expiration rules.

  • Apply federal and Missouri controlled substance rules to ten short fact patterns and justify each answer in one sentence.

Your checkpoint

A written answer key to ten controlled substance fact patterns showing the statutory or rule basis for each answer, scoring at least 8 of 10.

Week 4

Prescription requirements, dispensing, labeling, and prescription transfers

  • Tabulate the elements required on a Missouri prescription label and the elements required on the original prescription record.

  • Explain the rules for generic substitution, patient notification, and the prescriber's role in prohibiting substitution.

  • Describe the requirements and limits for transferring prescriptions between pharmacies, including controlled substance transfer rules and documentation.

  • Outline the process for handling prescription errors, corrections, and prescriber clarification requests so that each step is auditable.

  • Practice writing compliant labels and prescription records for five sample orders, then self-grade against the rule text.

Your checkpoint

Five fully written sample prescription records and labels with a self-graded rubric showing correct handling of substitution and transfer fields.

Week 5

Prescription requirements, dispensing, labeling, and prescription transfers & Pharmacist and pharmacy licensure, registration, and renewal

  • Explain the licensure pathway and renewal cycle for pharmacists, including continuing education hour requirements and deadlines.

  • Describe pharmacy facility registration, change-of-ownership, relocation, and closure notification requirements.

  • List the conditions under which a license may be denied, suspended, or placed on probation, and describe the reinstatement process.

  • Demonstrate the correct handling of a prescription transfer scenario from intake to final documentation, including a controlled substance transfer.

  • Identify the recordkeeping obligations tied to personnel licensure, such as verifying and documenting current licensure status.

Your checkpoint

A written transfer-of-care packet: one completed non-controlled and one completed controlled substance transfer, each with a step-by-step rationale and required documentation.

Week 6

Pharmacist and pharmacy licensure, registration, and renewal & Drug distribution, recordkeeping, and inventory management

  • Draft a compliance calendar covering license renewals, continuing education deadlines, and facility registration dates for one pharmacy year.

  • Explain the record retention periods and storage requirements applicable to prescription, purchasing, and inventory records.

  • Describe the requirements for receiving, documenting, and returning drug product from wholesalers and reverse distributors.

  • Outline the pedigree and drug supply chain documentation expectations for prescription drug purchases.

  • Build an inventory procedure for initial, biennial, and change-of-ownership counts, including which items must be counted and how discrepancies are resolved.

Your checkpoint

A one-page compliance calendar plus a written inventory standard operating procedure covering initial, biennial, and ownership-change counts.

Week 7

Patient counseling and pharmaceutical care responsibilities & Compounding and drug product standards

  • Explain the pharmacist's counseling obligation under Missouri law, including when counseling may be declined and how that is documented.

  • Describe the documentation expected for pharmaceutical care activities, medication therapy review, and follow-up communication with prescribers.

  • Outline the standards that apply to sterile and nonsterile compounding, including facility, equipment, and personnel requirements.

  • List the labeling, beyond-use dating, and stability documentation requirements for compounded preparations.

  • Identify the requirements for compounding from bulk substances and for documenting a compounded preparation's formula and lot traceability.

Your checkpoint

Two completed counseling-and-care documentation forms (one new prescription, one follow-up intervention) plus a compounding checklist covering facility, labeling, and beyond-use date requirements.

Week 8

Missouri Pharmacy Practice Act, Board of Pharmacy rules, and scope of practice & Federal Controlled Substances Act and Missouri controlled substance requirements & Prescription requirements, dispensing, labeling, and prescription transfers & Pharmacist and pharmacy licensure, registration, and renewal & Drug distribution, recordkeeping, and inventory management & Patient counseling and pharmaceutical care responsibilities & Compounding and drug product standards

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams under test-day conditions and score each one before reviewing any answers.

  • Log every missed or guessed item into an error log tagged by domain and by root cause (unknown rule, misread question, or guessing).

  • Re-study only the two lowest-scoring domains from the practice exams, rewriting the relevant rule summaries in your own words.

  • Recite the ten highest-frequency Missouri-specific numbers from memory: retention periods, renewal cycles, continuing education hours, monitoring submission timelines, and transfer limits.

  • Rehearse a two-minute verbal summary of Missouri controlled substance dispensing duties to test retrieval without notes.

Your checkpoint

Two scored full-length practice exams with a completed error log and a one-page 'numbers and deadlines' recall sheet written from memory.

Milestones

Week 2: Closed-book quiz of 25 items on the Practice Act, Board rules, and scope of practice scored at 80% or better, with every missed item rewritten as a correct rule statement.

Week 4: Complete a mixed 50-item set spanning domains 1 through 3 in 60 minutes and score at least 80%, showing the federal-versus-Missouri comparison table is fully corrected.

Week 6: Produce the compliance calendar and inventory procedure, then pass a 20-item quiz on licensure, renewal, recordkeeping, and distribution at 85% or better.

Week 8: Score 75% or higher on each of the two timed full-length practice exams and demonstrate a filled error log with a re-study plan for any domain still below 70%.