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Download the Career Guide (PDF)What you'll learn, chapter by chapter.
Twenty-four chapters in seven parts, built on the APA digital textbook and organized around the four PTCE domains. You learn the exam and the job at the same time.
Seven parts. Twenty-four chapters.
What a technician does, your scope of practice, where you'll work, and how to communicate and protect patient privacy.
Terminology, sig codes, and reading prescriptions, then pharmacy math from conversions through dosing, dilutions, and IV flow rates.
Generic and brand names, drug classes and name stems, the Top 200, the major body-system drug groups, and how drugs are stored.
Why medication errors happen and how to prevent them, high-alert and look-alike drugs, event reporting, and infection control.
The agencies and landmark laws, controlled substances and the DEA, REMS programs, recalls, track-and-trace, and hazardous drugs.
The dispensing workflow from intake to sale, insurance adjudication, inventory and the NDC, and the equipment you use every day.
The PTCE blueprint and its four domains, a study plan, test-taking strategy, and what to expect on exam day.
Top 200 Drugs · Common Conversions · Sig Codes & Error-Prone Abbreviations · Controlled-Substance Schedules · Common Lab Values · Glossary
Each chapter ends with a multiple-choice exam, taken online and graded automatically. The passing score is 70 percent. If you do not pass, you review the material and retake the exam. Pass all 24 chapter exams and the final exam, and you receive your certificate of completion and your PTCE exam voucher.