BCCP Prep Course (BCCP)

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.