Community Pharmacy Practice Ch. 1 & 3 Exam – Study Guide, Key
Concepts & Review
Who is considered the backbone of the system when referring to pharmacy? - ANS
✔✔Pharmacy technicians
What are some responsibilities of a tech? - ANS ✔✔- hands on work of gathering info
- filling prescriptions
What are some responsibilities of a Pharmacist? - ANS ✔✔-oversees
-checks and approves tech work
- educates providers and patients about the drugs and supplements
What are pharmacopeias? - ANS ✔✔dispensatories
Whats another word for drug lists? - ANS ✔✔drug formularies
What did traditional Eastern medicine consist of? - ANS ✔✔-relies on plant products and
healing energies
- some plants in use in Western culture today (ginseng)
What did Western medicine consist of? - ANS ✔✔- less religion based, more dependent upon
observation, theories and hypotheses, and scientific experimentation
Hippocrates is considered the father of what? - ANS ✔✔Father of modern medicine
Galen is considered the father of what? - ANS ✔✔Father of Pharmacy
, Dioscorides is credited with writing one of the world's greatest pharmaceutical texts which was
called.. - ANS ✔✔De Mareria Medica ( On Medical Matters)
Pharmacy practices has evolved from the compounding of natural herbal and mineral medicines
to the dispensing of manufactured medications and patient drug-therapy counseling - ANS
✔✔True
The word pharmacy comes from the ancient Greek word pharmakon meaning - ANS ✔✔remedy
What was the "Edict of Salermo" in the 13th century - ANS ✔✔A Sicilian law that said only
chemists could make medicines in special shops
What North American medicinal plant has been used from the early period of colonization to
the present for building up immunity and preventing infection? - ANS ✔✔Echinacea
Institutional pharmacies typically require pharmacy technicians to - ANS ✔✔be certified
During the pharmacy professions traditional era, - ANS ✔✔most prescriptions were
compounded by a pharmacist.
Prior to 1920, what was the formal education of most pharmacists-in-training in the United
States? - ANS ✔✔Serving as apprentices in pharmacies
What is the purpose of medication therapy management (MTM)? - ANS ✔✔ensuring best
health outcomes for drug therapy
_____________ pharmacy practice requires additional training and certification - ANS
✔✔Sterile compounding
Concepts & Review
Who is considered the backbone of the system when referring to pharmacy? - ANS
✔✔Pharmacy technicians
What are some responsibilities of a tech? - ANS ✔✔- hands on work of gathering info
- filling prescriptions
What are some responsibilities of a Pharmacist? - ANS ✔✔-oversees
-checks and approves tech work
- educates providers and patients about the drugs and supplements
What are pharmacopeias? - ANS ✔✔dispensatories
Whats another word for drug lists? - ANS ✔✔drug formularies
What did traditional Eastern medicine consist of? - ANS ✔✔-relies on plant products and
healing energies
- some plants in use in Western culture today (ginseng)
What did Western medicine consist of? - ANS ✔✔- less religion based, more dependent upon
observation, theories and hypotheses, and scientific experimentation
Hippocrates is considered the father of what? - ANS ✔✔Father of modern medicine
Galen is considered the father of what? - ANS ✔✔Father of Pharmacy
, Dioscorides is credited with writing one of the world's greatest pharmaceutical texts which was
called.. - ANS ✔✔De Mareria Medica ( On Medical Matters)
Pharmacy practices has evolved from the compounding of natural herbal and mineral medicines
to the dispensing of manufactured medications and patient drug-therapy counseling - ANS
✔✔True
The word pharmacy comes from the ancient Greek word pharmakon meaning - ANS ✔✔remedy
What was the "Edict of Salermo" in the 13th century - ANS ✔✔A Sicilian law that said only
chemists could make medicines in special shops
What North American medicinal plant has been used from the early period of colonization to
the present for building up immunity and preventing infection? - ANS ✔✔Echinacea
Institutional pharmacies typically require pharmacy technicians to - ANS ✔✔be certified
During the pharmacy professions traditional era, - ANS ✔✔most prescriptions were
compounded by a pharmacist.
Prior to 1920, what was the formal education of most pharmacists-in-training in the United
States? - ANS ✔✔Serving as apprentices in pharmacies
What is the purpose of medication therapy management (MTM)? - ANS ✔✔ensuring best
health outcomes for drug therapy
_____________ pharmacy practice requires additional training and certification - ANS
✔✔Sterile compounding
