The oral assessment is designed to evaluate your ability to assess a patient, systematically create a comprehensive pharmacy care plan and present your findings and recommendations to qualified examiners. The assessment focuses primarily on process, but relevant pathophysiologic, pharmacologic, and therapeutic knowledge will be required to successfully complete it.

The assessment has two parts.

Part 1:

Data gathering, analysis, problem identification & plan

You will be assigned an active patient within your organization (unless previously instructed otherwise) and given 2 hours to independently review the patient’s medical records (chart, Pharmanet, etc), gather information, interview the patient, discuss any issues with any available health care providers, conduct any research (e.g., literature search, etc) you may need in order to resolve the patient’s drug-related problems and prepare your pharmacy care plan. The patient will be chosen on the basis of having a variety of conditions requiring pharmacotherapy that you are expected to be proficient in managing.

Part 2:

Presentation of clinical case, pharmacy care plan and justification

You will meet with at least one qualified examiner for approximately 45 minutes to present the case, identify all the patient’s DRPs and then focus on the two most important ones (including justification for each identified problem), discuss your pharmacy care plan (therapeutic recommendations and monitoring) and answer any questions pertinent to the case posed by the examiner(s). Important: You will be asked to comprehensively present your assessment of the primary DTP and your therapeutic plan. You may be asked to present your assessment and/or plan, or some portion thereof, for your secondary DTP as time permits.