PEBC study plan

Map the MCQ blueprint to your own knowledge gaps by scoring a 60-question mixed diagnostic and tagging every miss by therapeutic area and by competency (pharmacotherapy, pharmacology, pharmaceutical calculations, compounding, patient safety)

Build a spaced-repetition deck of 150 high-yield drug cards covering mechanism, key adverse effects, monitoring parameters, and counselling points for the top 30 drugs by prescription volume

Establish a daily 20-minute calculation drill routine covering dose conversion, creatinine clearance, ideal body weight, and infusion rate problems

Define your personal MCQ test-taking protocol (two-pass strategy, flagging rules, time budget of roughly 90 seconds per question) and log it in writing

Work through cardiovascular, endocrine, and anticoagulation pharmacotherapy by writing a one-page decision summary for each major guideline-driven scenario (heart failure, atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes, thyroid disorders)

Practise 80 calculation questions under timed conditions and record error type for each mistake (setup, unit, arithmetic, or interpretation)

Explain aloud, in under three minutes each, the mechanism and monitoring for 20 drugs you missed on the week 1 diagnostic

Review your week 1 flashcards to at least 85% recall before adding new cards

Cover infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship by drafting empiric-therapy and de-escalation notes for pneumonia, urinary tract infection, sepsis, and skin and soft tissue infection

Build a renal and hepatic dose-adjustment reference sheet for 25 commonly adjusted drugs and self-test on it twice

Complete 100 mixed MCQ practice questions in two 50-question timed blocks and review every explanation, including questions answered correctly

Identify and rewrite your three most frequent reasoning errors into short corrective rules you can apply during the exam

Consolidate central nervous system, psychiatric, and pain-management pharmacotherapy by writing counselling scripts for opioids, antidepressants, and antiepileptics

Drill compounding and sterile-preparation calculations, including dilution, percentage concentration, and aliquot problems, for 90 minutes across the week

Re-run the week 1 diagnostic question set and compare per-area scores to measure movement

Complete a full-length 150-question timed mock under exam conditions and record your pacing at the 50- and 100-question marks

Learn the OSCE station archetypes (medication history, patient counselling, prescriber interaction, interprofessional collaboration, ethical dilemma, and documentation) and write a one-page structural template for each

Rehearse five patient-counselling stations aloud with a timer, using a show-tell-show-back format for inhalers, insulin, and anticoagulants

Practise three prescriber-interaction stations in which you must recommend a therapy change and justify it with evidence

Record yourself on two stations and score your own performance against a checklist of opening, information gathering, recommendation, and closure

Rehearse ethical and professional scenarios (conflict of interest, impaired colleague, dispensing error disclosure, privacy breach) and draft a values-based response framework you can apply under pressure

Practise six stations with a study partner or recorded self-review, covering medication reconciliation, adverse drug reaction reporting, and refusal to fill a prescription

Write and time three documentation samples (pharmacist note, referral, and follow-up plan) in under five minutes each

Build a personal phrase bank of 20 clarifying and empathy statements to use in standardized-patient interactions

Run a second full-length timed MCQ mock and target any therapeutic area still below 65% with focused review

Complete a simulated five-station OSCE circuit back to back with strict timing to build stamina and transition discipline

Rehearse three stations that combine clinical content with communication, such as counselling a patient on a newly started high-risk drug

Review your accumulated error log and flashcard misses, and retire cards you now recall reliably

Review only high-yield summaries, error logs, and flashcards; add no new content

Rehearse your five weakest OSCE stations once more, focusing on structure and closure rather than new facts

Complete a short 40-question mixed set and a two-station mini-circuit to confirm readiness and timing

Finalise exam-day logistics: identification requirements, timing plan, and a written one-page pre-exam routine