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MS MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Mississippi Pharmacy Practice Act, Board of Pharmacy rules, and state board authority

  • Outline the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy's statutory authority, composition, officer roles, and rulemaking, inspection, and subpoena powers from the Practice Act text.

  • Diagram the disciplinary process from complaint intake through board order and appeal, labeling each statutory step and deadline.

  • Build a comparison table of pharmacy permit categories (community, institutional, nonresident, specialty) with their distinct requirements.

  • Write 40 original recall questions on Board authority and score at least 85% without notes.

Your checkpoint

One-page annotated Board-authority and discipline flowchart plus a scored 40-question self-quiz (target >=85%).

Week 2

Mississippi Pharmacy Practice Act, Board of Pharmacy rules, and state board authority & Licensure, registration, and personnel qualifications for pharmacists, technicians, and pharmacies

  • Differentiate pharmacist licensure, technician registration, and pharmacy permitting by education, exam, fee, and renewal cycle.

  • List Mississippi continuing education hour requirements and acceptable CE categories for each credential type.

  • Map technician scope-of-practice and supervision/ratio rules onto specific daily pharmacy tasks.

  • Compare statutory grounds for license denial versus grounds for discipline and revocation.

Your checkpoint

Credential comparison matrix (requirements, CE, renewal, fees, discipline triggers) plus 25 flashcards covering scope-of-practice limits.

Week 3

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and FDA drug approval, labeling, and marketing requirements

  • Trace each FDA marketing pathway (NDA, ANDA, 505(b)(2), OTC monograph, EUA) and identify the evidence standard for each.

  • Distinguish required prescription and OTC label elements, including 'Rx only', Medication Guides, and patient package inserts.

  • Explain advertising and promotion limits, REMS obligations, and the 503A versus 503B compounding boundary.

  • Sequence DSCSA transaction and traceability duties across manufacturer, wholesaler, and dispenser.

Your checkpoint

Two-page decision tree answering 'may this product be lawfully marketed and dispensed in this form?' plus a 20-item pathway quiz.

Week 4

Controlled substances law: federal CSA scheduling and recordkeeping plus Mississippi controlled substance provisions

  • Apply CSA schedule criteria to place substances in Schedules II through V and identify the corresponding handling rules.

  • Reconstruct federal recordkeeping duties: registration, DEA Form 222/CSOS, biennial inventory, and destruction documentation.

  • Contrast federal and Mississippi controlled substance rules on prescription validity, refills, partial fills, and emergency oral orders.

  • Detail Mississippi PDMP query and reporting obligations, including who must report, what data, and within what timeframe.

Your checkpoint

Side-by-side federal-versus-Mississippi controlled substance table plus a 30-question self-test scored at >=80%.

Week 5

Controlled substances law: federal CSA scheduling and recordkeeping plus Mississippi controlled substance provisions & Prescribing, dispensing, compounding, and drug distribution requirements

  • Identify every required element of a valid controlled substance prescription in Mississippi and flag common defects.

  • Explain corresponding responsibility and document the red-flag resolution steps a pharmacist must take before dispensing.

  • Outline Mississippi opioid quantity and prescribing limits, naloxone-related provisions, and any mandatory-query triggers.

  • Describe lawful distribution channels: wholesaler licensing, pedigrees, returns, and transfers between registrants.

Your checkpoint

50-item mixed prescribing-and-dispensing exam scored at >=80%, with every miss written into a domain-tagged error log.

Week 6

Prescribing, dispensing, compounding, and drug distribution requirements

  • Compare USP <795>, <797>, and <800> requirements for nonsterile, sterile, and hazardous compounding and apply them to a sample formula.

  • List Mississippi rules for prescription transfers, refill authorization, generic substitution, and patient records at transfer.

  • Draft corrective actions for dispensing-error scenarios involving look-alike/sound-alike drugs, LASA storage, and verification steps.

  • Distinguish institutional distribution models (unit dose, floor stock, automated devices) and their recordkeeping duties.

Your checkpoint

Compounding compliance checklist organized by USP chapter plus five written scenario responses scored against a self-built rubric.

Week 7

Pharmacy operations: records retention, inventory, security, reporting, and patient counseling

  • Construct a retention timeline showing how long each record class (prescriptions, controlled substance records, inventories, counseling documentation) must be kept.

  • Specify inventory, security, and theft/loss reporting duties, including which agency is notified and when.

  • Write out Mississippi patient counseling requirements: when counseling is mandated, who may counsel, and permissible exceptions.

  • Audit a sample pharmacy workflow for security gaps in access control, alarm, and perpetual inventory practices.

Your checkpoint

One-page records-retention and reporting timeline table plus a counseling compliance script with exception checklist.

Week 8

Mississippi Pharmacy Practice Act, Board of Pharmacy rules, and state board authority & Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and FDA drug approval, labeling, and marketing requirements & Controlled substances law: federal CSA scheduling and recordkeeping plus Mississippi controlled substance provisions & Prescribing, dispensing, compounding, and drug distribution requirements & Licensure, registration, and personnel qualifications for pharmacists, technicians, and pharmacies & Pharmacy operations: records retention, inventory, security, reporting, and patient counseling

  • Complete a timed 120-item cumulative mock exam under exam conditions without references.

  • Re-teach the three weakest domains identified by the error log, writing a one-page summary for each.

  • Re-drill all previously missed items until every one is answered correctly twice.

  • Finalize a one-page rapid-review sheet of Mississippi-specific numbers (deadlines, CE hours, retention periods, quantity limits).

Your checkpoint

Completed 120-item mock exam scored at >=75% plus a domain-tagged error log showing all recurring misses resolved.

Milestones

Week 2: Score >=85% on a 40-item closed-book quiz covering Board authority and credentialing without consulting notes.

Week 3: Correctly classify 20 mixed products into their FDA marketing pathway with no more than one error.

Week 4: Score >=80% on the federal-versus-Mississippi controlled substance self-test and state two rule differences aloud without notes.

Week 6: Complete the compounding checklist and all five scenario responses, with at least four of five meeting every rubric criterion.

Week 7: Reproduce the full retention and reporting timeline from memory with all timeframes correct.

Week 8: Score >=75% on the timed 120-item cumulative mock exam, with no domain below 65%.