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Start with the program closest to your current role, then add the ones your next role asks for. Each entry below lists who the program is written for and the skills you leave with, so you can compare them side by side.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Pharmacotherapy (BCPS) exam, including PGY1-trained pharmacists and clinical pharmacists seeking board certification.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the current public BCPS content outline/framework and use it to organize study priorities without assuming unpublished domain weights.
- Master high-yield adult pharmacotherapy concepts, definitions, therapeutic rules, monitoring principles, and safety signals across major BCPS-relevant disease states.
- Apply pharmacist-level clinical reasoning in exam-style cases: identify the task, extract key patient-specific facts, determine the therapeutic goal or governing rule, compare options, select the best answer, and verify safety, efficacy, and monitoring.
- Perform and interpret common BCPS-relevant calculations when applicable, including dosing, renal/hepatic adjustment concepts, pharmacokinetic interpretation, infusion logic, biostatistics, and evidence interpretation; show steps clearly and avoid shortcuts that hide reasoning.
- Distinguish common distractors, contraindications, interactions, adverse effect patterns, monitoring traps, and boundary cases that make answer choices look plausible.
- Integrate evidence, guidelines, and patient-specific factors to recommend appropriate medication selection, optimization, monitoring, follow-up, de-escalation, escalation, or discontinuation within pharmacist scope.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise tables, comparison charts, monitoring checklists, algorithms, and spaced-review summaries.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Ambulatory Care Pharmacy (BCACP) exam, including ambulatory care clinicians, PGY2 residents and pharmacists moving into ambulatory care.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the current publicly available BPS BCACP content outline/framework, including major competency domains and any published weighting information without inventing unpublished blueprint details.
- Master the high-yield ambulatory care concepts, definitions, treatment principles, monitoring parameters, preventive care recommendations, and practice-management concepts tested within the BCACP scope.
- Apply ambulatory care pharmacotherapy knowledge in realistic, exam-style outpatient cases involving chronic disease management, medication optimization, transitions of care, population health, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Perform relevant outpatient clinical calculations and interpretation tasks accurately when applicable, showing steps and linking results to therapeutic decisions, safety, and follow-up.
- Distinguish common distractors in BCACP-style questions, including guideline misapplication, unsafe monitoring plans, failure to individualize therapy, overlooking adherence/access barriers, and confusion between inpatient and ambulatory standards.
- Use a consistent ambulatory care problem-solving framework: identify the task → extract key patient-specific factors → determine the most relevant guideline/rule/evidence → choose the best intervention or recommendation → verify safety, feasibility, monitoring, and follow-up.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise comparison tables, treatment algorithms, monitoring checklists, care-gap frameworks, and spaced review summaries.
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Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Critical Care Pharmacy (BCCCP) exam, including PGY2 critical care residents and practicing ICU pharmacists.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the major competency areas relevant to BCCCP preparation and organize study using explicit competency tags, while confirming current BPS candidate materials for exact exam structure when needed.
- Master high-yield adult critical care pharmacotherapy concepts, definitions, therapeutic targets, adverse effects, monitoring parameters, and dosing principles commonly tested in board-style ICU scenarios.
- Apply pharmacist-level reasoning to realistic adult ICU cases involving hemodynamics and shock, sepsis/infectious diseases, sedation/analgesia/delirium, neurologic emergencies, cardiovascular critical illness, toxicology, renal/hepatic dysfunction, fluids/electrolytes/acid-base disorders, hematology
- Solve calculation and interpretation tasks accurately when applicable, including weight-based dosing, infusion rates, renal dose adjustment logic, therapeutic drug monitoring/kinetics reasoning, electrolyte replacement logic, and nutrition-related calculations; show steps and clinical interpretation
- Distinguish common board-style distractors in critical care pharmacy, including contraindications, timing/sequence errors, monitoring priority mistakes, organ dysfunction constraints, and reasonable-seeming but suboptimal ICU alternatives.
- Use a consistent problem-solving framework: identify the syndrome or decision point → extract unstable features and patient-specific variables → define therapeutic goals and constraints → select the best pharmacologic or monitoring action → verify safety and reassessment plan.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise comparison tables, escalation/de-escalation algorithms, checklists, and spaced review summaries tailored to adult ICU pharmacotherapy.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Cardiology Pharmacy (BCCP) exam, including PGY2 cardiology residents and clinical pharmacists who care for patients with cardiovascular disease.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the current BCCP exam framework/content outline at a high level and organize study by mapped domains, objectives, and teachable subskills; if official wording or weighting is not available in source materials, use transparent inferred study groupings and confirm against current BPS materials
- Master high-yield adult critical care pharmacotherapy concepts relevant to BCCP preparation, including syndrome-based medication selection, dosing, contraindications, monitoring, adverse effects, and reassessment.
- Apply concepts in realistic BCCP-style patient cases focused on pharmacist-centered decision making: identify the medication-related problem, extract key ICU facts, select the governing therapeutic principle, recommend the best plan, and verify safety/monitoring.
- Solve common critical care pharmacy calculations accurately when applicable, including weight-based dosing, infusion rates, concentration math, renal/hepatic dose adjustment, and pharmacokinetic interpretation; show steps and verify units.
- Distinguish closely related ICU therapies, common distractors, misconceptions, and edge cases, especially when multiple options appear reasonable but differ by organ dysfunction fit, monitoring burden, timing, stewardship principles, or adverse-effect profile.
- Use a consistent pharmacist problem-solving framework: identify the task -> extract key patient-specific factors -> determine the relevant syndrome/state -> select the governing evidence-informed rule -> execute the medication plan -> verify efficacy, safety, and monitoring.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise comparison tables, drug grids, monitoring checklists, therapeutic algorithms, and spaced-review summaries tailored to adult critical care pharmacotherapy.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Emergency Medicine Pharmacy (BCEMP) exam, including PGY2 emergency medicine residents and practicing emergency department pharmacists.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BPS BCEMP exam scope/framework and how course topics map to published BCEMP domains, objectives, and pharmacist emergency medicine subskills.
- Master high-yield emergency medicine pharmacotherapy concepts relevant to BCEMP, including resuscitation, toxicology/antidotes, neurologic emergencies, cardiovascular emergencies, infectious diseases in emergency care, trauma/bleeding, pain/agitation/sedation, medication safety/operations, transitio
- Apply concepts in realistic BCEMP-style scenarios that require prioritization under time pressure, medication selection, dose/route/timing decisions, monitoring, contraindication recognition, and follow-up within the pharmacist scope of practice.
- Solve common emergency medicine pharmacist calculations accurately when applicable, including weight-based dosing, renal/hepatic adjustment, infusion/concentration logic, preparation interpretation, and antidote-related calculations, showing steps clearly.
- Distinguish common distractors, misconceptions, and boundary cases frequently tested in emergency medicine pharmacy, such as mistimed therapies, wrong route/preparation, failure to account for organ dysfunction or contraindications, and confusion between similar acute care pathways.
- Use a consistent problem-solving framework: identify the task -> extract key clinical facts -> determine immediate threats/priorities -> select the governing guideline, rule, or principle -> choose the best medication-related action -> verify safety, monitoring, and disposition implications.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise tables, antidote charts, resuscitation algorithms, checklists, and spaced review summaries.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Geriatric Pharmacy (BCGP) exam, including pharmacists who care for older adults in clinics, long-term care and community settings.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the major competency areas relevant to BCGP preparation and how to organize study by domain, without relying on invented or unofficial blueprint weightings.
- Apply core geriatric pharmacy principles to medication-related decision-making in older adults, including age-related pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic changes, multimorbidity, frailty, cognition, function, prognosis, and goals of care.
- Perform comprehensive medication review to identify inappropriate therapy, duplicate therapy, prescribing cascades, adherence barriers, regimen complexity, and deprescribing opportunities.
- Select, adjust, monitor, and when appropriate deprescribe pharmacotherapy for common conditions in older adults while prioritizing safety, function, quality of life, and patient-centered outcomes.
- Recognize and manage high-yield medication safety issues in geriatrics, including adverse drug events, drug-drug and drug-disease interactions, falls, delirium, bleeding, orthostasis, hypoglycemia, constipation, urinary retention, and sedation.
- Apply medication reconciliation, transitions-of-care, and medication-use-system principles to reduce discrepancies, administration problems, and preventable harm across settings.
- Use patient-centered communication and shared decision-making strategies that appropriately incorporate caregivers, surrogate decision-makers, treatment burden, and individualized goals of care.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Infectious Diseases Pharmacy (BCIDP) exam, including PGY2 infectious diseases residents and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacists.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BCIDP exam content domains/competency areas and how each lesson maps to them, without relying on unpublished weighting or hidden blueprint details.
- Master high-yield infectious diseases pharmacotherapy concepts across antimicrobial agents, microbiology/diagnostics, syndrome-based management, stewardship, monitoring, prevention, and special populations.
- Apply pharmacist-centered clinical reasoning in realistic exam-style scenarios: identify the task, extract key patient and microbiology facts, select the governing pharmacotherapy or stewardship principle, choose the best regimen or modification, and verify efficacy, safety, feasibility, and steward
- Interpret microbiology, culture, susceptibility, rapid diagnostic, and biomarker data to distinguish colonization vs infection, contamination vs true pathogen, empiric vs targeted therapy needs, and clinically meaningful resistance implications.
- Design and optimize patient-specific antimicrobial regimens using explicit stepwise reasoning, including drug selection, dose, interval, route, duration, renal/hepatic adjustment when relevant, PK/PD-informed considerations, IV-to-PO transition, de-escalation, and monitoring.
- Distinguish common exam distractors and boundary cases, including drug-bug mismatch, unnecessary spectrum, duplicate coverage, inappropriate duration, failure to account for organ function or host factors, and omission of key safety monitoring.
- Use concise comparison tables, checklists, algorithms, and spaced-review summaries to build retrieval-ready memory for high-yield BCIDP content.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Nuclear Pharmacy (BCNP) exam, including pharmacists working with radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear pharmacies and hospitals.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BCNP exam scope, competency domains, and topic coverage using official blueprint language when available; when blueprint wording is broad or limited, translate it into teachable subskills using consistent tags in the format 'DOMAIN: Objective -> Subskill' without inventing unpublished we
- Master high-yield nuclear pharmacy concepts, definitions, mechanisms, workflow principles, and decision rules relevant to radiopharmaceutical procurement, preparation, compounding/dispensing, handling, storage, administration support, and post-preparation considerations within pharmacist exam scope.
- Apply radiopharmaceutical science and pharmacist-level clinical reasoning in realistic, exam-style scenarios, including product selection, indication differentiation, patient- and procedure-linked considerations, timing decisions, operational judgment, and safest/most appropriate next-step questions
- Perform common BCNP-relevant calculations accurately and transparently, including radioactive decay, half-life, activity at calibration and administration times, concentration and dilution, volume-to-draw, timing adjustments, generator/elution-related logic when applicable, quality control interpret
- Interpret quality assurance and quality control findings and determine appropriate release, hold, reject, investigate, or corrective-action decisions based on governing principles, acceptance logic, and patient safety.
- Apply radiation safety principles and compliance-aware reasoning to routine and exception scenarios, including exposure minimization, contamination control, handling and disposal concepts, documentation expectations, and responses to unsafe or noncompliant situations within board-preparation scope.
- Distinguish common distractors, misconceptions, and boundary cases frequently tested in nuclear pharmacy, such as look-alike radiopharmaceutical uses, incorrect calibration timing, unsafe storage/handling assumptions, regulatory overgeneralization, and confusion between acceptable QC release criteri
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Nutrition Support Pharmacy (BCNSP) exam, including pharmacists who manage parenteral and enteral nutrition.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BCNSP exam competency areas and use a domain-based study plan without relying on unofficial weighting claims.
- Master high-yield foundational nutrition support concepts, terminology, and patient-centered principles related to enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, macronutrients, micronutrients, fluids, and electrolytes.
- Apply nutrition assessment principles to determine indications for nutrition support, estimate patient-specific requirements, and identify appropriate nutrition support strategies.
- Select appropriate enteral and parenteral nutrition formulations, routes, administration methods, and access considerations based on patient-specific clinical factors.
- Interpret laboratory, clinical, and monitoring data to identify nutrition support problems, adjust therapy, and choose the most appropriate next step.
- Apply sterile compounding, compatibility, stability, labeling, storage, and workflow principles in realistic exam-style nutrition support pharmacy scenarios.
- Use regulations-, standards-, and compliance-aware reasoning for documentation, compounding, dispensing, and operational decisions while recognizing when local/state/federal or site-specific requirements may vary.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Oncology Pharmacy (BCOP) exam, including PGY2 oncology residents and practicing oncology pharmacists.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BCOP exam-relevant competency areas and how course topics map to those areas without assuming unpublished blueprint detail or fabricating weightings.
- Apply a consistent oncology pharmacy problem-solving framework to exam-style cases: identify the task → extract cancer type/stage/biomarker/line-of-therapy and patient-specific factors → select the governing treatment or supportive care principle → execute → verify safety, appropriateness, and monit
- Master high-yield oncology pharmacy concepts across foundational oncology principles, disease-state therapeutics, supportive care, toxicities, pharmacology, calculations, monitoring, and medication safety.
- Select, compare, and verify antineoplastic and supportive care regimens in realistic patient scenarios, including line-of-therapy distinctions, biomarker-directed treatment logic, contraindications, organ function issues, and common near-miss distractors.
- Recognize, prevent, grade, and manage treatment-related toxicities, including cytotoxic, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy adverse effects, using pharmacist-appropriate triage and follow-up reasoning.
- Perform dosing and verification tasks accurately when applicable, including BSA-based, weight-based, and organ function-informed dose assessment; show steps and include unit checks and safety checks.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise regimen grids, mechanism-to-toxicity links, supportive care checklists, monitoring tables, and spaced-review summaries.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Pain Management Pharmacy (BCPMP) exam, including pharmacists who manage acute and chronic pain and opioid therapy.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the publicly supportable BCPMP exam framework and the course’s instructional competency mapping approach; if official blueprint detail or weighting is limited, identify the major pharmacist competency areas and how topics are mapped to them without assuming unpublished percentages.
- Master the high-yield concepts, definitions, therapeutic principles, and pharmacist decision rules relevant to comprehensive pharmacotherapy management.
- Apply patient-specific clinical reasoning in realistic exam-style cases: identify the pharmacist task, extract key facts, recognize drug-related problems, select or optimize evidence-based therapy, and verify safety, monitoring, and follow-up.
- Perform common pharmacotherapy calculations and logic tasks accurately when applicable, including renal function interpretation, dose individualization, weight-based dosing, concentration/rate logic, and monitoring threshold interpretation; show steps and avoid shortcuts that hide reasoning.
- Distinguish common distractors, misconceptions, and boundary cases, especially options that are generally reasonable but wrong for the specific patient because of comorbidities, organ function, interactions, contraindications, timing, adherence, or care-setting context.
- Use a consistent pharmacist problem-solving framework: identify the clinical task → extract decisive patient-specific data → classify the drug-therapy problem → select the governing rule/guideline principle → choose or adjust therapy → verify safety, counseling, monitoring, and continuity-of-care ne
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise comparison tables, checklists, algorithms, monitoring grids, adverse-effect summaries, and spaced review notes.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Psychiatric Pharmacy (BCPP) exam, including PGY2 psychiatric residents and pharmacists in mental health practice.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the current BCPP exam framework/competency areas and how major psychiatric pharmacy topics are organized for study; use official BPS blueprint language and weights only when explicitly confirmed.
- Master the high-yield concepts, definitions, medication facts, monitoring parameters, contraindications, interactions, and therapeutic principles most relevant to psychiatric pharmacy board-style questions.
- Apply psychiatric pharmacotherapy concepts in realistic pharmacist-facing exam scenarios, including medication selection, optimization, adverse-effect management, monitoring interpretation, transitions of care, and collaborative recommendations within pharmacist scope.
- Solve common calculation and interpretation tasks accurately when applicable, including dose/regimen calculations, conversions, titrations, therapeutic drug monitoring interpretation, and lab/vital/clinical-parameter use; show steps and avoid shortcuts that hide reasoning.
- Distinguish common distractors, misconceptions, overlapping syndromes, look-alike treatment options, and boundary cases frequently tested in psychopharmacology and psychiatric pharmacy practice.
- Use a consistent clinical reasoning framework: identify the task → extract key patient-specific facts → select the governing pharmacotherapy principle/guideline-informed rule → execute the recommendation or calculation → verify safety, efficacy, and monitoring.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise tables, checklists, treatment comparisons, monitoring grids, adverse-effect differentiation tools, and spaced review summaries.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Pediatric Pharmacy (BCPPS) exam, including PGY2 pediatric residents and practicing pediatric clinical pharmacists.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BCPPS content outline/domain structure and use it to organize study priorities without assuming unpublished weighting.
- Master high-yield pediatric pharmacy principles across the age spectrum, including neonatal, infant, child, and adolescent distinctions in physiology, pharmacotherapy, monitoring, and medication-use safety.
- Apply pediatric pharmacist reasoning in realistic exam-style scenarios: identify the task → extract age/weight/developmental stage/organ function and key clinical facts → select the governing pediatric rule, guideline, or evidence-based principle → perform calculations or therapeutic decisions → ver
- Perform patient-specific pediatric calculations accurately when applicable, including weight-based and BSA-based dosing, renal/hepatic adjustment, concentration/dilution, infusion-rate, nutrition, and pharmacokinetic calculations; show steps and verify units, maximums, and safety bounds.
- Distinguish common pediatric exam distractors, misconceptions, and boundary cases, including age-related contraindications, formulation constraints, dosing pitfalls, concentration errors, and developmental differences that change the best answer.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise tables, developmental comparisons, checklists, treatment algorithms, and spaced review summaries tailored to pediatric pharmacy practice.
- Demonstrate readiness through self-check questions and mini-assessments mapped to each BCPPS domain/content area and translated subskill.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Sterile Compounding (BCSCP) exam, including pharmacists who prepare or oversee sterile and hazardous compounding.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BCSCP exam focus areas and organize study using blueprint-aligned sterile compounding domains and teachable subskills; do not assume unpublished weighting if not provided.
- Master high-yield sterile compounding concepts, definitions, standards-based principles, and safety rules across environmental quality, engineering controls, aseptic process design, hazardous drug handling, quality management, calculations, documentation, competency, and deviation response.
- Apply current compendial, regulatory, and institutional principles to realistic pharmacist-level sterile compounding scenarios, choosing the safest compliant action that best protects sterility, product quality, worker safety, and patient safety.
- Solve sterile compounding calculations accurately, including dose, concentration, dilution, reconstitution, volume, rate, quantity, yield, and unit-conversion problems; show setup, units, and verification steps.
- Distinguish commonly tested distractors and boundary cases, especially sterility vs stability vs compatibility, hazardous vs nonhazardous workflow requirements, environmental control decisions, garbing/aseptic technique errors, documentation gaps, and deviation-investigation priorities.
- Use a consistent pharmacist problem-solving framework: identify the task → extract key facts → determine the governing standard/principle → execute the safest compliant action → verify against sterility, quality, containment, and patient-safety priorities.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise tables, checklists, algorithms, process comparisons, environmental/workflow diagrams, and spaced review summaries.
Who it is for
Pharmacists preparing for the BPS Solid Organ Transplantation Pharmacy (BCTXP) exam, including PGY2 transplant residents and transplant pharmacists.
What you will learn
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the BCTXP exam competency structure and organize study by major transplant pharmacist practice areas, mapping each lesson to the applicable domain/objective or, when official blueprint language is broad, to explicit transplant pharmacotherapy subskills.
- Master high-yield medication management concepts across the solid organ transplant continuum, including pre-transplant evaluation considerations, perioperative and immediate post-transplant pharmacotherapy, longitudinal maintenance immunosuppression, rejection-related pharmacotherapy support, infect
- Apply transplant pharmacotherapy principles in realistic exam-style scenarios involving kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, and multi-organ contexts when the tested task is medication-related.
- Use a consistent pharmacist decision framework in board-style questions: identify the medication-related task → extract key clinical and pharmacokinetic facts → select the governing rule, protocol-informed principle, or therapeutic objective → recommend or adjust therapy → verify safety, monitoring,
- Accurately solve medication dosing, adjustment, and monitoring problems when applicable, including renal/hepatic dose considerations, therapeutic drug concentration interpretation, interaction management, prophylaxis selection, and regimen modification based on efficacy, toxicity, adherence, and gra
- Distinguish common distractors in transplant pharmacy questions, especially when answer choices mix rejection risk, infection risk, organ dysfunction, drug interaction effects, protocol variation, and out-of-scope actions from other transplant disciplines.
- Build retrieval-ready memory using concise tables, organ-by-organ comparisons, monitoring checklists, adverse-effect frameworks, and spaced-review summaries focused on high-yield testable discriminators.
