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New Mexico MPJE Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
When are pharmacist license expiration and renewal dates? - Answer✔Every two years, by last
day of birth month
What are the required number of CPE required for renewal of licensure? - Answer✔≥ 30 hrs
every two years
What are required of auxiliary CPE per renewal period? - Answer✔≥ 2hrs of patient safety
applicable to pharmacy
≥ 2hrs of pharmacy law offered by the NM BoP (LIVE course)
≥ 2hrs of opioid specific education (may satisfy patient safety requirement if addressed)
How many hours of live CPE are required per renewal period? - Answer✔≥ 10hrs (excluding law
requirement)
What is considered appropriate NM BoP law CPE? - Answer✔1 hr for every full day of
attendance at a regularly scheduled NM BoP meeting
2 hrs for successfully completing an open book test administered by the NM BoP
2 hrs for attendance at scheduled NM BoP law programs
(see NMAC 16.19.4.J-K)
http://www.rld.state.nm.us/boards/pharmacy_requirements_and_continuing_education.aspx
If you are an out-of-state pharmacist and do not reside or practice within New Mexico how do
you fill the law CPE requirement? - Answer✔Any 2 hours of Continuing Education in the area of
law will be accepted as long as it is ACPE approved
(http://www.rld.state.nm.us/boards/Pharmacy_Requirements_and_Continuing_Education.aspx
)
How many CE are required for the prescriptive authority areas?
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What are those areas? - Answer✔Every TWO years, you need 2 hours of CE each for:
Vaccines
Emergency Contraception
Naloxone
Tobacco Cessation
Which "dangerous drugs" may be dispensed to a patient without an established practitioner-
patient relationship? - Answer✔ABX used to treat partners of patients with STDs (see expedited
partner therapy guidelines and protocol of the NM Dept of Health) (treatment of gonorrhea,
chlamydia, and trichomoniasis, except in pregnant women or MSM)
Naloxone (as authorized in public health law 24-23)
Immunizations
Others as ordered by Dept of Health in a declared public health emergency
What action defined as "unprofessional conduct" by NMAC 16.19.4.9.B(10) are consultant
pharmacists exempt from? - Answer✔Providing prescription blanks with pharmacy information
to providers (?)
Under what circumstances may a pharmacist accept medication returns? - Answer✔If
medication never left the premises
OR
If it is in unit-dose packaging, dispensed by a consultant pharmacist, to a SNF or ICF facility
When otherwise approved for return, what manner of packaging render said drugs ineligible for
return? - Answer✔More than 1 drug per container
By how much does the expiration date of a medication decrease when returned from a
qualifying institution? - Answer✔50% of the time left of the expiration for the drug
Who is supposed to cover for an institutional consultant pharmacist when unavailable? -
Answer✔A properly trained local pharmacist, designated as a "co-consultant"
Within how many days must notice of consultant pharmacist/co-consultant agreements be
made known to the BoP and the facility? - Answer✔10 days
Within how many days must notice a consultant pharmacist's termination of services to a clinic
be made known to the BoP? - Answer✔10 days
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What is the minimum frequency of on-site services provided by consultant pharmacists
according to class? - Answer✔Class A: at all times
Class B Category 1: bi-monthly
Class B Category 2: monthly
Class B Category 3: bi-weekly
Class C: at least every 3 months (quarterly)
What is the minimum percentage of patient records a consultant pharmacist must review of a
class B clinic or facility? - Answer✔not less than 5%
To obtain initial certification as a pharmacist clinician, how many hours of board approved
physical assessment training is required? - Answer✔60
To obtain initial certification as a pharmacist clinician, how many hours of direct patient contact
training is required?
What are the minimum number of patients encountered as part of that training?
How long does the applicant have to submit these hours? - Answer✔150 hrs
300 patients
Must be completed within 2 years
Within what time frame must patient contact hours be completed pursuant to pharmacist
clinician certification? - Answer✔2 years
What is the main difference between CPE requirements of pharmacists and pharmacist
clinicians? - Answer✔20hrs of live CPE or CME instead of 10hrs of CPE
In addition to the NM BoP, with what agency must a pharmacist clinician register in order to
exercise prescriptive authority? - Answer✔NM Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners
Upon any change in supervising physician between registration renewals, within what time
frame must a pharmacist clinician submit appropriate forms? - Answer✔10 working days
In the case of actions brought against a pharmacist clinician, which board will hear the
complaints and appeals? - Answer✔2 members of the BoP and of supervising physician's
respective board
Who may have access to the NM Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP)? - Answer✔Only
registered users. Registrants must be one of the following: practitioner, his/her delegate (only
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New Mexico MPJE Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
When are pharmacist license expiration and renewal dates? - Answer✔Every two years, by last
day of birth month
What are the required number of CPE required for renewal of licensure? - Answer✔≥ 30 hrs
every two years
What are required of auxiliary CPE per renewal period? - Answer✔≥ 2hrs of patient safety
applicable to pharmacy
≥ 2hrs of pharmacy law offered by the NM BoP (LIVE course)
≥ 2hrs of opioid specific education (may satisfy patient safety requirement if addressed)
How many hours of live CPE are required per renewal period? - Answer✔≥ 10hrs (excluding law
requirement)
What is considered appropriate NM BoP law CPE? - Answer✔1 hr for every full day of
attendance at a regularly scheduled NM BoP meeting
2 hrs for successfully completing an open book test administered by the NM BoP
2 hrs for attendance at scheduled NM BoP law programs
(see NMAC 16.19.4.J-K)
http://www.rld.state.nm.us/boards/pharmacy_requirements_and_continuing_education.aspx
If you are an out-of-state pharmacist and do not reside or practice within New Mexico how do
you fill the law CPE requirement? - Answer✔Any 2 hours of Continuing Education in the area of
law will be accepted as long as it is ACPE approved
(http://www.rld.state.nm.us/boards/Pharmacy_Requirements_and_Continuing_Education.aspx
)
How many CE are required for the prescriptive authority areas?
1
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What are those areas? - Answer✔Every TWO years, you need 2 hours of CE each for:
Vaccines
Emergency Contraception
Naloxone
Tobacco Cessation
Which "dangerous drugs" may be dispensed to a patient without an established practitioner-
patient relationship? - Answer✔ABX used to treat partners of patients with STDs (see expedited
partner therapy guidelines and protocol of the NM Dept of Health) (treatment of gonorrhea,
chlamydia, and trichomoniasis, except in pregnant women or MSM)
Naloxone (as authorized in public health law 24-23)
Immunizations
Others as ordered by Dept of Health in a declared public health emergency
What action defined as "unprofessional conduct" by NMAC 16.19.4.9.B(10) are consultant
pharmacists exempt from? - Answer✔Providing prescription blanks with pharmacy information
to providers (?)
Under what circumstances may a pharmacist accept medication returns? - Answer✔If
medication never left the premises
OR
If it is in unit-dose packaging, dispensed by a consultant pharmacist, to a SNF or ICF facility
When otherwise approved for return, what manner of packaging render said drugs ineligible for
return? - Answer✔More than 1 drug per container
By how much does the expiration date of a medication decrease when returned from a
qualifying institution? - Answer✔50% of the time left of the expiration for the drug
Who is supposed to cover for an institutional consultant pharmacist when unavailable? -
Answer✔A properly trained local pharmacist, designated as a "co-consultant"
Within how many days must notice of consultant pharmacist/co-consultant agreements be
made known to the BoP and the facility? - Answer✔10 days
Within how many days must notice a consultant pharmacist's termination of services to a clinic
be made known to the BoP? - Answer✔10 days
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What is the minimum frequency of on-site services provided by consultant pharmacists
according to class? - Answer✔Class A: at all times
Class B Category 1: bi-monthly
Class B Category 2: monthly
Class B Category 3: bi-weekly
Class C: at least every 3 months (quarterly)
What is the minimum percentage of patient records a consultant pharmacist must review of a
class B clinic or facility? - Answer✔not less than 5%
To obtain initial certification as a pharmacist clinician, how many hours of board approved
physical assessment training is required? - Answer✔60
To obtain initial certification as a pharmacist clinician, how many hours of direct patient contact
training is required?
What are the minimum number of patients encountered as part of that training?
How long does the applicant have to submit these hours? - Answer✔150 hrs
300 patients
Must be completed within 2 years
Within what time frame must patient contact hours be completed pursuant to pharmacist
clinician certification? - Answer✔2 years
What is the main difference between CPE requirements of pharmacists and pharmacist
clinicians? - Answer✔20hrs of live CPE or CME instead of 10hrs of CPE
In addition to the NM BoP, with what agency must a pharmacist clinician register in order to
exercise prescriptive authority? - Answer✔NM Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners
Upon any change in supervising physician between registration renewals, within what time
frame must a pharmacist clinician submit appropriate forms? - Answer✔10 working days
In the case of actions brought against a pharmacist clinician, which board will hear the
complaints and appeals? - Answer✔2 members of the BoP and of supervising physician's
respective board
Who may have access to the NM Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP)? - Answer✔Only
registered users. Registrants must be one of the following: practitioner, his/her delegate (only
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