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Pharmacy Technician Workbook & Certification Review

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This new book offers you an excellent choice for your home study or classroom use. This book will give you all the information you need to pass the national certification examination offered by; The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board; PTCB. Joe Medina has done excellent and you will benefit. This is the companion book to; "The Pharmacy Technician" by Morton Publishing 1999.

This is an excellent workbook for the PTCB exam. The examples are clear and they don't expect you to already know medical terminology. The vocabulary is clearly explained. There could have been more practice math problems, though. However, be aware that it is not a comprehensive textbook. You'll also need to purchase the textbook that goes with it, The Pharmacy Technician by Shrewabury, Medina, Cordiale et al. They're both excellent books. Together, they make a complete and understandable review guide to the PTCB exam.

This book is really helpful for a preparation for the National Examination given by the Pharmacy Technicians Certification Board. It provides over 800 exercises and problems for self testing,and hundreds of key concepts and terms. Answers are included in the back of the book.It also contains a practice exam at the back of the book in the same "choose the best answer" format of the National Examination for certification.I had several of those exactly the same problems on my Exam, and I got a certificate !

I've been using The Pharmacy Technician (2nd edition) and this workbook for self-study over the past 2.5 months. I read the text book cover to cover and I've been casually quizzing myself with this book.

I agree with another one of the reviewers: Unless you have a textbook to go along with this book, it can be hard to use. I would HIGHLY recommend getting BOTH!! The workbook does not really explain any of the answers, which can make it hard to grasp a concept if you don't have something more detailed to refer to. Sometimes, I'll miss a question in the workbook and REALLY have to dig for it in the text book. It would be nice if, in the answer key, they could either include explanations or at least tell you where to look.

The layout of the book is simple & helpful. Each chapter is basically a detailed vocabulary list. At the end of each chapter, there are fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple choice, true/false, and open-ended questions to check understanding. The questions are challenging and will prepare you well, but again, GET THE TEXTBOOK WITH IT. Great book for reviewing, though. It also has a handy list in the back of the top 200 drugs that makes for easy index card making.

(If you're looking for a good math study book, APhA's Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician is REALLY good! Really prepares you well for the math part. I took the practice test in the Workbook & Cert. Review and got EVERY SINGLE math question right.)

No matter which books you get, you need to put in the time or none of them will help! If you haven't taken any courses, I'd recommend at LEAST 2 months (2-3 hrs/day) with the books I mentioned.

It is a good practice book for problem solving n stuff. Would recommend using it, instead of going to some expensive classes, given that you are willing to put your own effort in learning, otherwise go ahead and spend a lot of money for certification classes (which is not really worth the money).

This book would probably be a good review IF and only IF you have a hard text that goes along with it or you have attended a school for pharm tech for 2 yrs. This is a workbook ONLY and it doesn't explain the answers and some of the questions involve things that is I have never heard of and there was no way to figure it out without another source to go to. So IF you buy this book, make sure that you have the text book that goes along with it (and I don't know what that is) because if you are studying pharm tech on your own and you haven't gone to school for this, you will be disappointed because it is not a teaching book for review.

I studied for my PTCB national certification exam using this workbook and the textbook "The Pharmacy Technician, 3rd ed" by Morton Publishing. Although the textbook was helpful, this workbook offered many additional study problems that complemented the textbook. The workbook offers a variety of problems, presented in a slew of different ways so you can verify your understanding of the various subjects. Types of different questions include true/false, fill in the blank, matching problems, mathematical conversion exercises and more.

I think if you purchased just the workbook, some of the concepts might be confusing if you'd never been exposed to them before. However, as a supplement to the textbook, it is very effective. These books definitely helped me pass my exam on the first try and I highly recommend this workbook.

The book is an excellent guide to obtaining a CPhT, it really does review all the pharmacy technician work and is repetitive enough to be informational but not repetitive enough to be annoying. I would recommend this workbook to anyone.

this has been a really great book to study with. I recomend this book to everyone.

I need the answers key for the book: The Pharmacy Technician Workbook And Certification Review (2nd edition) By Prespective Press. If anyone can help me out, i would appreciate it... I brought the book at Amazon but it missing the answer keys... I can return the book but i decide to keep it cause i have to spend more money to resend it back to the seller.... Thanks alot... If you can help me....