Hebes123

Hi, I studied two books for the WA MPJE. One was by Dr. Fassett (Washington Pharmacy Law a User Guide) and Guide to Federal Pharmacy Law. I don't have the books with me but I got them on Amazon.

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I wish to take back what I said above. I didn't know what I was saying. The owner of the pharmacy is a very nice man who helped me a lot in getting my license and my internship done. If it wasn't for his generosity I wouldn't have been able to complete my requirements so easily and quickly. I wish to thank him and also the man who helped me get a place there because if it wasn't for them I would still be looking for an internship. It was a positive experience and I learned a lot by working there. I hope everyone here who is still searching for an internship gets as lucky as I did.

Hi all, I did my MPJE yesterday. I found it to be actually pretty straightforward and not difficult :). The questions were not confusing or weird. I was very surprised. I think the prempje.com tests that I purchased were very helpful. I also used the links I posted above from the university of Washington and WSU. The U of W had some good questions and answers that helped me understand state law. Please, KNOW the difference between record keeping requirements for the SLCP's and the C-V drugs. I got confused and I couldn't remember which one you had to send to BOP monthly. Also, there were a lot of question on legend drugs on my exam, more than narcotics. They asked me a lot of dispensing questions like how much can I dispense. They asked who exactly can prescribe, administer and dispense in the DATA program. Other questions were about basic stuff like who can write prescriptions for CS, if you can accept prescriptions out of state, how to transfer prescriptions....easy stuff. I did'nt know all the answers because I didn't have enough time to read and study all of the washington laws. I used Barry Reiss for the federal law and prempje.com. I think reading the laws off the DOH website is very boring and you can easily overlook what's important, so doing the question exercises from the universities is a good way of understanding the law. I don't recall any questions asking me which drug belongs in which schedule. by far most of the questions were on legend drugs anyway. I will post my score as soon as I find out.:rolleyes: Hebes

Hi, Thank you!! I hope everyone here passes their naplex! Pharmgirlwa: I used Wikipedia for stastics. But really there's no point in studying biostats , the exam questions were just too hard. You need to take a course or read a book, not use online websites.

Thanks..mpje tomorrow, so worried!

I PASSED!! Got an email from WA BOP, I got 106!! Praise God!:grad:

Hi John, I had to do that too. Simple, I just copied pharmacist duties from some official source online, either the american occupation handbook or the wa law, I don't remember. An intern can do anything the pharmacist does, except counsel in some states. Don't forget all the counting and pouring involved. ;)

Oooohhh :( I hope you passed Isa! You really studied a lot! Mine is next week, thank you for the advice.

Hi, Thanks a lot everybody for your kind words and encouragement. I still don't know my score. WindsorPharm: I did my pre-Naplex back in Febuary and I got 82, and I also did the free chase quizzes the night before. I did pretty well on the chase quizzes. The stat questions were long case studies, one was comparing placebo, Vit E and Vit C in reducing CV stroke. And then they give you SEM's (whatever that is) and probabilites comparing the success for each drug, and how many people dropped out, and the relative risk, and some other stuff in 2 tables. Then they asked me which numbers represented what which I didn't know. Hope that helps.

Congratulations Rivaldo! May we all join you soon.

UPDATE! I found out I passed today!! Yaaaaaayyy!!! The WA bop sent an email, what wonderful people! [goodjob] I got 106. Hi! I just did my Naplex today . It was exhausting :crazy:. I was very disappointed that my extensive preparation did not prepare me very well :grumpy:. I truly hope I passed , and I am hoping I did because there were lots of math questions and I am good at math. However, the patient profiles were really ugly. The typical profile had 5-10 diseases, 10-15 drugs, lab results for everyday of the week, a paragraph of pharmacist's notes, and sometimes even long charts about different TPN orders. It was very tiring for my eyes to skim through all that information so in the end I started reading the questions only and if it was necessary I would look at the profile. My favorite and easiest questions on the test were the ones with no math, and no profiles. These were usually easy to answer. But math questions took me a long time each, and involved lots of steps. They are also worded in a confusing manner :confused:. Like for example they say, How much of NS do you need to add to x drug (concentration is 10 mg / ml in a 30 ml vial) 750 mg for a 0.25% concentration? I got so confused. Also some math questions had wrong answers! This sounds wierd I know but really, I double and triple checked my answer but it wasn't close to anything they posted, and it wasn't a hard question. Anyway, I could not have prepared myself more for this exam. The profile questions were strange, some diseases and drugs I didn't recognize. Also there was heavy emphasis on lab results. And nothing was ever told direct, they would say something like, Which drug would correct the abnormal lab values on this date? And then you look at the lab values and there are lots of abnormalities, and the drugs are for different labs, so you have to decide by yourself which one specifically they are referring to. I think the naplex people ran out of easy questions a looooong time ago and they are scrabbling at the bottom of the barrel and coming up with all these odd questions. The break in the exam came when I only had 30 questions left, and I decided to continue and not take the break. I wish the break was scheduled sooner. I can't think of any way I could've prepared myself better - except maybe to take a biostatistics course. Oh yes there were lots of bio stats questions. I had studied stats by reading stuff online. What a joke my efforts were. Their stats questions are very long, involve tons of numbers and charts, and the questions are straight out of a statistics textbook for graduate students. There was heavy emphasis on: - which drugs produce nephrotoxicity - stability of various solutions - dosage forms - which drugs are okay with food Conclusion: I guessed a lot in this exam and I was always happy to see math questions because they're my friends! Resources I used: Apha, CPR (nothing was OTC in the exam though), DIH (Drug information handbook), Lange q and a, Pharmacy and Federal Drug Law Review, various online websites. Advice: Just keep studying the way you are :luck2:! There's no book out there that can help, EXCEPT maybe that Mary Koda Kimble book someone else mentioned, I think if you have lots of time it is a good idea to read it. Also, Apha does not provide enough details on Stability and dosage forms. Keep looking up that information (DIH is a good source). Just remember, DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE NAPLEX! This being WA I hope to know my results by Monday maximum. Thank you all for your help and support!:) Hebes (ps. I am going to take my MPJE preparation very, very seriously)

Thanks that was a good one.

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Definitly NOT compulsory to write MPJE within a week...it can be within months as long as your ATT is valid.