Foundation trainees
This collection of resources has been created to support your preparation for the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration assessment as you take the final step towards your future pharmacy career.
You can access advice on how to plan and structure revision time effectively or practice the different types of pharmacy calculations that will feature in the exam.
To help you revise the learning outcomes related to therapeutic approaches, links have been provided to our clinical condition ‘hub’ pages where you can access expert authored content on a range of different topic.
Exam preparation
Preparing for the GPhC registration exams: how to approach learning outcomes relating to professional practice
Preparing for the GPhC registration exams: how to revise learning outcomes relating to clinical knowledge and therapeutic approaches
Calculations
Preparing for the GPhC pharmaceutical calculations assessment
Medication maths: estimations of kidney function
Medication maths: using a resource or artefact when calculating doses and dose regimen
Medication maths: displacement volumes and values
Medication maths: dilutions
Medication maths: calculations involving molecular weight
Medication maths: infusion rates
Medication maths: using provided formula
Medication maths: how to solve dose and dosage calculations (video)
Medication maths: how to solve infusion calculations (video)
Medication maths: quantities to supply and using provided formulae calculations (video)
Medication maths: how to solve pharmacy calculations — concentrations, dilutions and health economics (video)
A guide to rounding for pharmacy students and trainees
Paediatrics
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‘Stark lack of government response’ on valproate redress, patient safety commissioner says
Advances in the pharmacological management of psychotic disorders
Single national formulary pilot sites announced
Female Pharmacy Leaders Network: we posted on LinkedIn and had no idea what would happen next
Prescribing
Developing scope of practice guidance for new prescribers
Staying safe with online pharmacies: what patients and providers need to know about weight-loss prescribing
Case-based learning: sedating medicines, breastfeeding and safe sleeping advice
Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when prescribing anticoagulation in an older patient with falls risk
Prescribing unlicensed and off-label medicines
Principles of effective prescription writing for pharmacist prescribers
Prescribing dilemma: high-cost biologics in moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis
Latest Learning & CPD
Acne vulgaris: recognition and management
Imposter phenomenon in pharmacy: why capable professionals doubt themselves and how to move forward
In vitro fertilisation: eligibility, processes and technologies
Hepatic encephalopathy: diagnosis and management
Oral hormonal contraception: a practical guide
Restarting psychotropics after a treatment break: patient considerations and the pragmatic approach