APhA Complete Review - which chapters were useless?

[retro]

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Hello all, I'm currently studying for my NAPLEX, with about a month left until the test date. I'm using the orange APhA Complete Review for Pharmacy, and I find it very detailed. I was wondering if you guys could point out which chapters to focus on and what not.

So, the chapters I was NOT going to bother reading were...

Federal Pharmacy Law, Dosage Forms/Drug Delivery, Compounding, Sterile Products, PK/Metabolism, Biotech/Pharmacogenomics, Drug Info, Clinical Trial Design, Women's Health, Immunization, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Tox/bioterrorism, solid organ transplant


From the above, am I skipping certain chapters that'll significantly reflect on the actual exam?

Or are there additional chapters which I should skip?

I know all knowledge is great, but I'm talking about testing/passing purposes...and I'm under time constraint, so any word of advice would be appreciated.

 

[mustang sally]

That looks like a pretty good list. I did read solid organ transplant and women's health, however, as those are therapeutic topics and not necessarily my strongest areas.

 

[bacillus1]

The writer of RxPrep told us that experimental design shows up on the test, and encouraged us to know it.

 

[retro]

Shoot, looks like I have three more chapters to skim through. Thanks a lot for the input guys, I really appreciate it...any other thoughts from anyone else?

 

[neopharma]

Compounding + clinical trial design + immunization are the top 3 out of the list you mentioned that were heavy hitters in my experience

 

[nerdswagg88]

Include drug info and vaccinations, I got asked questions on vaccines and about which volume of usp contained certain info... Don't skip geriatrics unless you know Alzheimer's and Parkinson's well.... Def skip pk and bioterrorism lol, compounding eh... You may get by 🙂 brush up on stats, that hurt me...

 

[NYPharmRes]

Include drug info and vaccinations, I got asked questions on vaccines and about which volume of usp contained certain info... Don't skip geriatrics unless you know Alzheimer's and Parkinson's well.... Def skip pk and bioterrorism lol, compounding eh... You may get by 🙂 brush up on stats, that hurt me...

hey! Stats isn't my strongest subject. What would you suggest I look over, and what resources do a good job of explaining it? Thanks for the input!!

 

[KKHeal]

hey! Stats isn't my strongest subject. What would you suggest I look over, and what resources do a good job of explaining it? Thanks for the input!!

If you can borrow or get your hands on "How to report statitics in medicine by Thomas lang, you will be golden with statistics
http://www.amazon.com/How-Report-St...keywords=how+to+report+statistics+in+medicine

However for naplex, ensure to know stuff like ARR, NNT, statistical significance, T-test and meta-analysis etc. I dont think the questions were very complex

 

[Hopeful in NJ]

I don't recommend leaving out women's health...I had a few questions on that topic on my naplex

 

[retro]

If you can borrow or get your hands on "How to report statitics in medicine by Thomas lang, you will be golden with statistics
http://www.amazon.com/How-Report-St...keywords=how+to+report+statistics+in+medicine

However for naplex, ensure to know stuff like ARR, NNT, statistical significance, T-test and meta-analysis etc. I dont think the questions were very complex

Once again, thanks for the advice everyone. Between, I was going through the Biostat chapter of the APhA book today, but it didn't seem to cover the topics you mentioned (ARR, NNT, meta-analysis). Do you know where I can read up on that? (without buying any more books, if possible...)

 

[PharmDnewb]

I actually had a bunch of questions on compounding materials & equipment, drug info resources, and immunizations (allergy and who is eligible). I tried finding where the RR, RRR, ARR, and NNT calculations are in the Apha book but couldn't find it. But also make sure you know how to analyze data from journal articles (ie. what a significant p-value is and what a significant confidence interval is). Good luck!

 

[nerdswagg88]

If you can borrow or get your hands on "How to report statitics in medicine by Thomas lang, you will be golden with statistics
http://www.amazon.com/How-Report-St...keywords=how+to+report+statistics+in+medicine

However for naplex, ensure to know stuff like ARR, NNT, statistical significance, T-test and meta-analysis etc. I dont think the questions were very complex

I agree! Those were the questions I had to totally guess on and I guess the computer picked up on that because I got them again ... And again... But hey i still passed with a pretty nice score so if you don't get to it, so be it. And of course the test is differnrt for everyone... I got maybe 1 compounding question.

 

[Hic]

hey! Stats isn't my strongest subject. What would you suggest I look over, and what resources do a good job of explaining it? Thanks for the input!!

the pharmacist's letter has an article that covers pharmacy stats very well