Description
BCGP Prep Course (BCGP)
Pharmacists preparing for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) examination, including first-time candidates and recertifying pharmacists seeking a structured, exam-focused review of geriatric pharmacy practice across care settings. Key goals: By the end of this course, learners will be able to:; Explain the major competency areas relevant to BCGP preparation and how to organize study by domain, without relying on invented or unofficial blueprint weightings..
Exam: Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) · Organization: Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
Includes: Lessons + Flashcards + QBank
Audience: Pharmacists preparing for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) examination, including first-time candidates and recertifying pharmacists seeking a structured, exam-focused review of geriatric pharmacy practice across care settings.
Goals:
- By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the major competency areas relevant to BCGP preparation and how to organize study by domain, without relying on invented or unofficial blueprint weightings.
- Apply core geriatric pharmacy principles to medication-related decision-making in older adults, including age-related pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic changes, multimorbidity, frailty, cognition, function, prognosis, and goals of care.
- Perform comprehensive medication review to identify inappropriate therapy, duplicate therapy, prescribing cascades, adherence barriers, regimen complexity, and deprescribing opportunities.
- Select, adjust, monitor, and when appropriate deprescribe pharmacotherapy for common conditions in older adults while prioritizing safety, function, quality of life, and patient-centered outcomes.
- Recognize and manage high-yield medication safety issues in geriatrics, including adverse drug events, drug-drug and drug-disease interactions, falls, delirium, bleeding, orthostasis, hypoglycemia, constipation, urinary retention, and sedation.
- Apply medication reconciliation, transitions-of-care, and medication-use-system principles to reduce discrepancies, administration problems, and preventable harm across settings.
- Use patient-centered communication and shared decision-making strategies that appropriately incorporate caregivers, surrogate decision-makers, treatment burden, and individualized goals of care.
- Solve relevant dosing and calculation tasks step by step, especially those involving renal function, dose adjustment, regimen feasibility, and clinical interpretation in older adults.
- Use a consistent exam-solving framework: identify the task → extract key geriatric risk factors and clinical facts → select the governing principle or therapeutic rule → execute → verify appropriateness, safety, and monitoring.
- Demonstrate readiness through self-checks and mini-assessments mapped to learner-facing competency tags in the format GERIATRIC CARE DOMAIN: Objective -> Subskill.
- Coverage & Blueprint Mapping Requirements:
- Every chapter, section, subsection, and topic must map to at least one learner-facing competency tag using the format: GERIATRIC CARE DOMAIN: Objective -> Subskill.
- Use balanced coverage across these course domains: Patient Assessment and Individualized Care of Older Adults; Comprehensive Medication Review, Optimization, and Deprescribing; Therapeutic Decision-Making in Common Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Areas; Medication Safety, Adverse Effects, and Monitoring; Transitions of Care and Medication-Use Systems; Patient-Centered Communication, Ethics, and Shared Decision-Making; Calculations and Applied Dosing.
- Because official blueprint detail may be broad or undisclosed, translate broad competencies into practical, teachable subskills and clearly label them; do not invent official BPS percentages, unpublished domains, or confidential blueprint details.
- Ensure complete coverage: no major competency area is left unmapped. If recommendations vary by guideline, formulary, institution, or care setting, provide learner-safe wording such as: follow current guideline and local policy when applicable.
- Keep all content within the candidate role of a geriatric clinical pharmacist or pharmacist providing medication management for older adults across care settings.
Access is granted immediately after purchase.
