Description
BCCP Prep Course (BCCP)
Pharmacists preparing for the Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCP) exam, including PGY2 critical care pharmacy residents, practicing clinical pharmacists transitioning into critical care, and prior test-takers seeking a structured review. Key goals: 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..
Exam: Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCP) · Organization: Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
Includes: Lessons + Flashcards + QBank
Audience: Pharmacists preparing for the Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCP) exam, including PGY2 critical care pharmacy residents, practicing clinical pharmacists transitioning into critical care, and prior test-takers seeking a structured review.
Goals:
- 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.
- Demonstrate readiness through self-check questions and mini-assessments mapped to each domain/objective/subskill across hemodynamics/resuscitation, system-based ICU pharmacotherapy, medication safety, PK/PD, organ dysfunction dosing, and applied calculations.
- Coverage & Blueprint Mapping Requirements:
- Every chapter/section/subsection/topic must map to at least one BCCP domain/objective/subskill tag.
- Use official current BPS BCCP blueprint/content outline language when available.
- If official blueprint language is broad, limited, or absent in the provided materials, translate it into explicit teachable subskills using a consistent format such as DOMAIN: Objective -> Subskill.
- Ensure complete coverage so that no exam domain/objective is left unmapped.
- When exact official blueprint details or weights are uncertain, do not invent them; instead provide learner-safe guidance such as: Official wording/weighting may vary by exam cycle; confirm with current BPS materials.
- Keep content within the pharmacist candidate role and adult critical care medication-management scope; when local protocols or formularies vary, state that they may differ by institution.
Access is granted immediately after purchase.
