MCQs in Pharmacy Practice, 2nd Edition

465 Pages·2009·2.4 MB·English

by  Lilian M. Azzopardi

MCQs in Pharmacy Practice

MCQs in Pharmacy Practice
Second edition
Edited by
Lilian M Azzopardi
BPharm (Hons), MPhil, PhD, MRPharmS
Associate Professor and Head of Department
Department of Pharmacy
University of Malta
Msida, Malta
London●Chicago
Published by the Pharmaceutical Press
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First published 2004
Second edition 2009
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ISBN 978 0 85369 839 5
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Contents
Foreword to the second edition by C Anderson vii
Foreword to the first edition by HR Manasse Jr ix
Preface to the second edition xiii
Preface to the first edition xv
Introduction xvii
Acknowledgements xxi
About the editor xxiii
Contributors xxv
How to use this book xxvii
Section 1 Open-book Questions 1
Test 1 Questions 3
Answers 27
Test 2 Questions 45
Answers 67
Test 3 Questions 89
Answers 111
Test 4 Questions 133
Answers 151
Section 2 Closed-book Questions 173
Test 5 Questions 175
Answers 201
Test 6 Questions 219
Answers 243
vi Contents
Test 7 Questions 261
Answers 287
Test 8 Questions 305
Answers 325
Bibliography 343
Appendix A Proprietary (trade) names and
equivalent generic names 345
Appendix B Definitions of conditions 353
Appendix C Abbreviations and acronyms 359
Appendix D Performance statistics 361
Proprietary names index 385
Generic names index 389
Conditions index 397
Subject index 407
Foreword to the second edition
The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has stated:
‘Maintaining competence throughout a career during which
new and challenging professional responsibilities will be
encountered is a fundamental ethical requirement for all
health professionals. Patients have a right to be confident that
professionals providing health care remain competent through-
out their working lives.’ (Statement of Professional Standards
on Continuing Professional Development. The Hague: FIP,
2002.)
To become competent and effective pharmacists, there is a
need for preregistration trainees and practising pharmacists to
have a strong background knowledge as well as the ability to
retrieve, to evaluate critically and to apply that knowledge in
decision making. It is also important that, as part of the con-
tinuing professional development (CPD) process, pharmacists
keep informed and continuously revise and assess their knowl-
edge. Furthermore, during their career many pharmacists move
from one sector of the profession to another or change their
role within a particular sector. Pharmacists will need to update
their knowledge in order to become competent and skilled
practitioners in new areas.
Multiple choice questions are increasingly used to test
knowledge and understanding objectively at an undergraduate
level and in licensing exams. They can be formative as self-
assessment exercises with feedback and are particularly useful
for revision purposes and as a means of identifying an area for
further study.
viii Foreword to the second edition
This book provides the reader with a variety of practice
MCQs, which can be used to assess essential pharmacy practice
knowledge in a number of areas, including drug action, uses,
clinical pharmacology, adverse effects, pharmaceutical care,
counselling points, product selection and pharmaceutical
calculations. It will be a very useful text both for pharmacy
preregistration examination candidates and for practising
pharmacists.
Professor Claire Anderson
School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, University of
Nottingham, United Kingdom
April 2009
Foreword to the first edition
To practise pharmacy effectively and accountably, it is critical
for practitioners to have a sound, contemporary and compre-
hensive database. In addition to the many good references in
textbooks and the periodical literature, there is a certain
amount of knowledge that we have to keep current in our mem-
ory and daily dialogue. An appropriate balance must be struck
by our reliance on memory and our capacity to find, analyse
and apply useful knowledge to effective clinical decision mak-
ing. Much discussion is currently ongoing around the world of
the ideas captured in the phrase ‘continuing professional devel-
opment’ (CPD). Simply put, CPD reflects the fact that, for
pharmacy professionals to practise with responsibility and
accountability, each one must structure a plan and implement
mechanisms by which they can maintain their individual com-
petence. It also indicates a willingness of the individual practi-
tioner to build a portfolio of formal and informal educational
processes in which they are continuously engaged to ensure
competence. They are also willing to have this portfolio
reviewed by their peers and perhaps, regulatory bodies, to
establish a formal recognition of competence by external par-
ties. Our profession will be examining these precepts over the
coming years as a necessary evolution of our thinking around
continuing education, public accountability and personal pro-
fessional development.
Engaging in review of important developments in the field
of pharmacy and the disciplines that support its knowledge