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Learning Drug References: pharmacology practice questions

Learning Drug References is a high-yield area on the PEBC, NAPLEX, OPRA and FPGEE exams. Phartoonz has 38 exam-style Learning Drug References questions, each written to test the clinical decisions these licensing exams actually reward — mechanism of action, dosing, monitoring parameters, adverse effects, contraindications and patient counseling.

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Sample questions

Sample 1

Which reference name is matched correctly with its purpose?

  • 1Yellow Book - therapeutic equivalence
  • 2Orange Book - principles of immunization
  • 3Green Book - drug pricing
  • 4Red Book - travelers' health information
  • 5Pink Sheet - regulatory and business developments
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Sample 2

A pharmacy student is preparing for a journal club and wants to search for clinical trials that have evaluated the risk of amputations with SGLT2 inhibitors. Which resource should she use?

  • 1Mayo Clinic
  • 2PubMed
  • 3MedWatch
  • 4LactMed
  • 5Merck Manual
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Sample 3
A patient is traveling to Panama and asks the pharmacist about the malaria prevalence in certain regions of the country. Which reference should the pharmacist use to find this information?
  • 1Lexi-Tox
  • 2The Cochrane Library
  • 3Hansten and Horn's
  • 4Clinical Pharmacology
  • 5The Yellow Book
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