Certification Review for Pharmacy Technicians

by Noah Reifman

Book Overview

Certification Review for Pharmacy Technicians has been recognized as the best review text for the PTCB's National Certification Exam by pharmacy technicians nationwide. But don't take our word for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091437348X
• ISBN13: 9780914373483
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Certification Review
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

essential book to add to your library!

I took the PTCB exam on September 17, 2005 in Chicago. I currently work at CVS Pharmacy and ONLY used Noah Reifman's book to prepare for the exam. I passed the exam easily and earned my "CPhT" designation using this text. It's well-written and easy to read. The several sample exams are exactly what you will find on the exam itself. I prepped for less than a week using this text and am glad it was recommended to me. This text makes self-studying simple.

THE BEST BOOK for your REVIEW!!

I bought this book for my studies of the PTCB test that took place in March 2005 & PASSED the test!!! This book has IDENTIICAL questions from the PTCB test itself!!! Trust me... I bought the book and took the test!!! ONE KEY THING... DO NOT PURCHASE the latest edition (7th). It has the EXACT same questions, pages, etc. If you can find the 6th edition or maybe a used one... then go for it. I wish you all the best!!! Carla Luna, CPhT as of April 19th, 2005.

Very Helpful!!!

This book was extremely helpful. I was very pleased that I bought this book because when I took the test there were some of the exact same questions on the test as there were in the book. All I recommend is that you should take all of the practice tests (all 4) and review the questions that you missed. I did this and only studied about a month ahead and I scored about 780 (you have to score 650 to pass), and I only had a little bit of pharmacy experience (volunteered in a pharmacy). KNOW YOUR CONVERSIONS. Know every single conversion, there was a lot of math. Don't worry too much about the drug names. Just the different Schedules- like Narcotics... those are important. Good LUCK!

Helpful study guide!

I have no pharmacy experience and want to obtain a part-time position as a technician to gain experience prior to applying for pharmacy school next year. In TX, certification is required, so I took the exam on Nov. 15, 03. This is the only book that I studied, and I passed w/ a scaled score of 837 (scale is from 300-900; 650 is passing score). As another reviewer stated, this is a great prep for the math questions. I felt confident in each math question I answered on the exam b/c of this book. I highly recommend it!

Easy read and best math prep for PTCB Certification

I'm med student (looking for summer job to help me learn my meds for next year) & had no knowledge of the profession. I studied Noah's book as part of a pharm tech class and got it in 1st week of February 2003 and easily scored a 790 (out of 300-900 scale) on March 30th 2003, without knowing ANY of the meds on the PTCB because I was able to know each and every math question through his book. His formulas are excellent and he teaches alligations which only pharmacists are familiar with but make calculations an absolute breeze. He has several practice exams which simulate the PTCB test better then the PTCB's own practice test on their website, (PTCB's practice test was harder) and some of the exact questions I swear showed up on the board test with a slight change of word or number inserted. If you do all of his practice exams their is no way you can fail. You need to know all of your class I-V schedule drugs, not inside and out, just to be able to identify them in their category. Medical terminology/abreviations for reading prescriptions is excellent don't worry about any abbreviations not in his text. Also, if you are familiar with dimensional analysis used in high school chemistry you can easily do conversions a whole lot easier. (e.g. 5ml=1teaspoon). Know your conversions! I think Noah even sits on the board to make up the questions for the PTCB so if you don't buy this book you'll be taking that exam again. I met professional pharmacy students at the test site who were their to sit for it again. You don't want to be one of them, the exam cost [$$$] each time you sit for it. The only good things about the exam is that they give you plenty of time and you can bring a calculater. Just have a study schedule, discipline and this book and don't waste money on a pharm tech course.