NAPLEX 2014

[jerry898]

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Hi, how does it take to prepare for the naplex?
Also I m looking for study partner, anyone ready?

 

[pharmacy7424]

A lot of how long it takes to prep depends on how much you paid attention in school

 

[BenJammin]

One month of studying is all you need if you paid attention in school. It's a minimum competency exam. If you can't pass it the first time, I gotta wonder...

 

[jerry898]

how many hrs per day for the 1 month?

 

[rxgolfer]

Last year, my school's 100% record for years and years was tarnished by a guy who thought he could he could pass with a month of studying. He had a good GPA too. Don't be that guy. If you have time, do you really want to risk $60,000 in salary if you dont pass the first time? You know yourself best. There will be tons of people who only study for a month, and there will be others like me who have already started.

 

[owlegrad]

"Only one month?"

What did we go to pharmacy school for if we can't pass a minimum competency exam?

 

[rxgolfer]

"Only one month?"

What did we go to pharmacy school for if we can't pass a minimum competency exam?

If thats the case, why study for it at all right? We should know everything by now. Especially with the new multiple-multiple choice format that gives you all-or-nothing credit that boards like to use these days.

 

[trailerpark]

I don't remember crap from my classes. I use RxPrep and it started to come back nicely. I started it with my first APPE to look up questions and I used it for all my assignments. It's a great review book.

 

[zelman]

It depends on your strengths. If you had hardcore compounding, natural medicine, oncology, HIV and transplant rotations totaling 40 weeks of your P4 year, and you paid a lot of attention, and learned everything backwards and forwards, you are in trouble. This will account for 3-6% of your exam. You need to study for 1-4 hours daily for 6-12 weeks.

If you had an intense Am Care rotation dealing with the most common disease states in the country, you can probably pass as is. I'd identify your 2-3 weakest areas and spend some time brushing up on them for as long as it takes to get your ATT and schedule the exam (6 weeks or so).

 

[trailerpark]

I was always told there's an obnoxious amount of oncology and HIV... Maybe because if you get them wrong they keep asking, that whole computer adaptive...

 

[pharmacy7424]

So lets collectively brainstorm on the most important things to study.

Calculations (obviously)
Drug interactions
then what...
HTN
Diabetes
Asthma/COPD
Depression
Then what?

I have also heard onco/hiv is minimal.

ID is something I am not sure about. The ID chapter in rxprep is massive and I'm not sure if all these hospital drugs will come up on the exam.

 

[owlegrad]

If thats the case, why study for it at all right?

Pretty much yes.

You can study for confidence and to identify specific areas of weakness but studying for a month or more should be overkill for anyone who spent four years studying the material.

 

[owlegrad]

I was always told there's an obnoxious amount of oncology and HIV... Maybe because if you get them wrong they keep asking, that whole computer adaptive...

Does the website still give a breakdown by topic?

 

[TLAD123]

I don't remember crap from my classes. I use RxPrep and it started to come back nicely. I started it with my first APPE to look up questions and I used it for all my assignments. It's a great review book.

1. Same sentence, multiple verb tenses...ahhh!
2. If you didn't remember anything from your classes, how could it possibly "come back nicely" 😕

 

[TLAD123]

Hi, how does it take to prepare for the naplex?
Also I m looking for study partner, anyone ready?

From the multiple sources I've asked, I've gained the following general information: 2-4 weeks of study from a comprehensive review book (APhA, RxPrep, etc.) depending on the amount of time you have to invest (3-4 hours/day most days for 3 weeks average, which amounts to approximately 2-3 chapters with review questions). You don't want to overload too much, but also do not want to do a chapter a day...unless you don't want to repeat any chapters at all.

Law: depending on the state -- ~3-5 days studying review notes/review questions (read through notes twice, answer review questions twice. For Ohio, we have a guy who publishes a nice review note set with like 300+ questions, which I plan on going through twice as outlined previously).

We have a resident this month at our institution who passed NAPLEX without studying. All of the residents said it was easy, just know calculations as described above by other posters.

(And I've heard 2-3 questions from Onc and possibly a few more than that HIV. But take that with a grain of salt because it isn't the same for everyone).

 

[pharmacy7424]

So the ID part of RxPrep has a ton of pages on treatment guidelines, ie what to use if you have endocarditis, UTI, candida, etc.

I am wondering if treatment guidelines are a focus of NAPLEX, or this information is more for CPJE prep? I don't want to waste time memorizing guidelines if they aren't really tested on NAPLEX

 

[BenJammin]

I was always told there's an obnoxious amount of oncology and HIV... Maybe because if you get them wrong they keep asking, that whole computer adaptive...

When I took the exam awhile back, I didn't have a single question over HIV or cancer. A buddy of mine said the majority of his exam was HIV and oncology. I don't think there is a clear response to your statement.

 

[TLAD123]

So the ID part of RxPrep has a ton of pages on treatment guidelines, ie what to use if you have endocarditis, UTI, candida, etc.

I am wondering if treatment guidelines are a focus of NAPLEX, or this information is more for CPJE prep? I don't want to waste time memorizing guidelines if they aren't really tested on NAPLEX

... if a question is about what your choice of therapy should be, then I would say your answer would need to be guideline driven as this is what the guidelines are for... but if it is about side effects or interactions, then obviously not guidelines...