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NM MPJE · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Controlled substances: federal Controlled Substances Act and New Mexico Controlled Substances Act requirements

  • Map federal CSA schedules I–V against New Mexico's schedule placements and flag every point where state rules are stricter or add requirements.

  • Reconstruct DEA registration, renewal, security, and power-of-attorney requirements for pharmacies and practitioners on a blank sheet without notes.

  • Trace the recordkeeping chain for Schedule II ordering and dispensing (order forms/CSOS, biennial inventory, invoices, dispensing records) and list each required retention period.

  • Draft the notification sequence for a controlled-substance loss or theft, naming whom to notify, in what order, and within what timeframe.

  • Answer 25 mixed federal/New Mexico controlled-substance practice items and log every miss with the rule it tested.

Your checkpoint

A one-page federal-versus-New Mexico controlled-substance comparison sheet plus an error log from the 25-item set, scored at 80% or better.

Week 2

Controlled substances: federal Controlled Substances Act and New Mexico Controlled Substances Act requirements & New Mexico Pharmacy Practice Act and Board of Pharmacy regulatory framework

  • Build a decision tree for what makes a controlled-substance prescription valid in New Mexico, covering who may prescribe, required elements, refill limits, and emergency dispensing.

  • Summarize prescription monitoring program duties: who must query, when, what gets reported, and what the pharmacist must do with the data.

  • Outline the Board of Pharmacy's regulatory framework: composition, rulemaking authority, and how to locate the Practice Act versus the administrative rules.

  • Distinguish statutory definitions and terms of art from their practical consequences at the counter.

  • Re-answer all week 1 missed items closed-book and confirm each rule from a primary source.

Your checkpoint

A controlled-substance prescription decision tree plus a 15-item prescription monitoring self-quiz scored at 90% or better.

Week 3

New Mexico Pharmacy Practice Act and Board of Pharmacy regulatory framework & Prescription requirements, dispensing, labeling, and prescription transfer rules

  • Convert prescription content and labeling requirements, federal and New Mexico, into a single audit checklist a technician could follow.

  • Differentiate refill limits, refill authorization, generic substitution, and patient-requested substitution obligations.

  • Identify New Mexico dispensing requirements that exceed the federal baseline and cite where each appears.

  • Assemble the timeline and content requirements for patient records created at dispensing.

  • Complete 30 prescription-requirements items and rewrite any missed item as a corrected rule statement.

Your checkpoint

A prescription-and-labeling audit checklist applied to 10 practice prescriptions, plus a 30-item quiz scored at 85% or better.

Week 4

Prescription requirements, dispensing, labeling, and prescription transfer rules

  • Reconstruct the prescription transfer procedure step by step, including what must be documented, who may transfer, and what may never be transferred.

  • Compare federal and New Mexico handling of partial fills, transfers of controlled-substance prescriptions, and refill authorizations.

  • Resolve five intake scenarios involving omissions, alterations, forgeries, and out-of-state prescribers, writing the correct action for each.

  • Rehearse verbal explanations of transfer and partial-fill rules as you would give them to an inspector.

Your checkpoint

A timed 40-item mixed Domain 3 and Domain 4 quiz scored at 85% or better, with a written correction for every wrong answer.

Week 5

Licensure, registration, renewal, and disciplinary processes for pharmacists, interns, technicians, and pharmacy sites & Pharmacy operations, recordkeeping, inspections, and federal compliance (FDCA, DSCSA, HIPAA)

  • Chart every New Mexico credential type-pharmacist, intern, technician, and pharmacy site-with its qualifications, renewal cycle, continuing education, and supervision requirements.

  • Outline the disciplinary process from complaint through investigation to board action, including the licensee's procedural rights.

  • Build a master records-retention table that spans licensure, controlled substances, prescriptions, and dispensing records.

  • List inspection-readiness items a pharmacy manager should verify before a board or DEA visit.

  • Cross-check DSCSA transaction documentation duties against what the pharmacy actually retains.

Your checkpoint

A one-page credential and records-retention master table plus a 25-item licensure and recordkeeping quiz scored at 80% or better.

Week 6

Drug distribution, administration, and collaborative/scope-of-practice arrangements & Pharmacy operations, recordkeeping, inspections, and federal compliance (FDCA, DSCSA, HIPAA)

  • Differentiate wholesale distribution, hospital drug distribution, and drug administration pathways and the compliance duties attached to each.

  • Map New Mexico scope-of-practice authorities for pharmacists, including collaborative practice agreements, prescriptive authority, and vaccine administration, with the conditions attached to each.

  • Specify the elements of a complete drug administration record and the conditions under which a pharmacist may administer.

  • Summarize HIPAA privacy and security duties as they surface in daily pharmacy workflow and permitted disclosures.

  • Write a plain-language explanation of DSCSA transaction requirements suitable for training a new technician.

Your checkpoint

A one-page drug distribution pathway diagram plus a 20-item Domain 6 quiz scored at 85% or better.

Week 7

Patient counseling, pharmaceutical care, and professional standards of practice & Compounding, sterile and non-sterile preparation, and quality assurance

  • Script and rehearse a patient counseling encounter that satisfies counseling content, documentation, and offer-to-counsel requirements.

  • List pharmaceutical care documentation elements and identify when New Mexico requires counseling versus when it may be declined.

  • Outline non-sterile and sterile compounding requirements: procedures, environmental monitoring, beyond-use dating, personnel training, and the designated responsible person's duties.

  • Build a beyond-use date reference card covering common non-sterile and sterile preparation categories.

  • Answer 30 combined counseling and compounding items and convert each miss into a flashcard.

Your checkpoint

A counseling script, a beyond-use date reference card, and a 30-item combined Domain 5 and Domain 7 quiz scored at 85% or better.

Week 8

Controlled substances: federal Controlled Substances Act and New Mexico Controlled Substances Act requirements & New Mexico Pharmacy Practice Act and Board of Pharmacy regulatory framework & Prescription requirements, dispensing, labeling, and prescription transfer rules & Licensure, registration, renewal, and disciplinary processes for pharmacists, interns, technicians, and pharmacy sites & Drug distribution, administration, and collaborative/scope-of-practice arrangements & Pharmacy operations, recordkeeping, inspections, and federal compliance (FDCA, DSCSA, HIPAA) & Patient counseling, pharmaceutical care, and professional standards of practice & Compounding, sterile and non-sterile preparation, and quality assurance

  • Sit a full-length timed mock exam across all eight domains and record a score for each domain separately.

  • Remediate the two lowest-scoring domains with targeted rule lookups and a closed-book re-test of 20 items each.

  • Recite from memory the controlled-substance prescription requirements, transfer rules, and every retention period in your master table.

  • Review the top 20 recurring misses in your error log and confirm each is now automatic.

  • Rehearse a ten-minute verbal walkthrough of a mock board inspection covering records, security, and labeling.

Your checkpoint

A full-length mock exam scored at 80% or better overall with no domain below 70%, plus a final one-page high-yield rules sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Closed-book 20-item quiz spanning Domains 3 and 1 scored at 80% or better, with zero unresolved factual gaps in the controlled-substance comparison sheet.

Week 4: Timed 40-item mixed Domain 3 and Domain 4 quiz scored at 85% or better, and every wrong answer rewritten as a correct rule statement.

Week 6: Half-length timed mock covering Domains 1 through 4, 6, and 8 scored at 80% overall with Domains 3 and 4 at 85% or better.

Week 8: Full-length timed mock exam scored at 80% or better overall with no single domain below 70%, and error log closed out.