PSA Exam Prep
Preparing to sit the Prescribing Safety Assessment? Get ahead with PSA Prep, a new collection of FREE eLearning sessions for medical students.
Written and reviewed by a team of UK experts, the 9 eLearning sessions in PSA Prep provide you with a detailed outline of each of the question styles found in the Prescribing Safety Assessment. Each session addresses areas of the exam commonly found difficult among candidates, such as dealing with the time pressure, calculations, the exam format and identifying the key points in clinical scenarios.
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Introduction to PSA Question Styles
Prescribing (PWS) Question Items
Prescription Review (REV) Question Items
Planning Management (MAN) Question Items
Providing Information (COM) Questions
Calculation Skills (CAL) Question Items
Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) Question Items
Drug Monitoring (TDM) Question Items
Data Interpretation (DAT) Questions
Introduction to PSA Question Styles
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Prescribing (PWS) Question Items
- answer the Prescribing (PWS) questions using the PSA prescribing form
- understand how marks are awarded for optimal and sub-optimal answers
- manage the time pressures
- approach Prescribing items confidently and effectively
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Prescription Review (REV) Question Items
- identify which components of a prescription are inappropriate, unsafe or ineffective based on their clinical circumstances.
- understand how marks are awarded for optimal and sub-optimal answers
- understand the structure of the questions
- approach Prescription Review items confidently and effectively
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Planning Management (MAN) Question Items
- decide which treatment is best to manage a particular clinical scenario
- understand how marks are awarded for optimal and sub-optimal answers
- understand the structure of the questions
- approach Planning Management items confidently and effectively
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Providing Information (COM) Questions
- identify the most important pieces of information to share with the patient, carer or other healthcare providers.
- understand how marks are awarded for optimal and sub-optimal answers
- understand the structure of the questions
- approach Providing Information items confidently and effectively
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Calculation Skills (CAL) Question Items
- complete calculations with confidence
- understand the structure and rationale required of the Calculation Skills questions.
- get a step-by-step breakdown of the formula and workings of the questions
- understand how marks are awarded
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Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) Question Items
- identify the likely adverse reactions of specific drugs or the potentially dangerous drug interactions from clinical case scenarios.
- understand how marks are awarded for optimal and sub-optimal answers
- understand the structure of the questions
- approach Adverse Drug Reactions items confidently and effectively
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Drug Monitoring (TDM) Question Items
- monitor the beneficial and harmful effects of medicines and the decisions that inform these actions
- understand how marks are awarded for optimal and sub-optimal answers
- understand the structure of the questions
- approach Drug Monitoring items confidently and effectively
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Data Interpretation (DAT) Questions
- decide the meaning of results from an investigation and how this may affect further decisions about ongoing drug therapy
- understand how marks are awarded for optimal and sub-optimal answers
- understand the structure of the questions
- approach Data Interpretation items confidently and effectively
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In addition to PSA Prep, you can access a selection of our online learning and assessment products free of charge, including sample eLearning sessions from our courses and a case studies in prescribing (primary care) assessment.
Polypharmacy Knowledge Check
Antimicrobial Prescribing Knowledge Check
MHRA – Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Assessment
Drugs In Healthcare & Society
Introduction To Clinical Pharmacology & Theraputics
What better way to prepare for your prescribing exam than by practising? While we can’t offer official exam past papers, you might like our Practice Papers!
These brand new Practice Papers are designed specifically for UK medical students, helping you prepare for your final year Prescribing Exams. There are 120 questions split across 3 individual papers, including a 60-item practice exam not previously available.
There is in-depth feedback for each question and unlimited attempts on each of the practice papers, allowing candidates to learn where they’re going wrong and understand how to fix it. The papers are all aligned to the British National Formulary and written by UK experts, highlighting best practice procedures expected of newly qualified doctors.
You can buy these papers individually or purchase all 3 together at a discount.
Prescribing Practice Paper 3 (60 items)
Prescribing Practice Paper 2 (30 items)
Prescribing Practice Paper 1 (30 items)
Better Prescribing, Better Patient Safety
BPS Assessment is the learning and assessment branch of the British Pharmacological Society. We aim to drive improvement in medication safety worldwide, through knowledge assessment and learning.
We work side by side with the Society to develop products and services that help institutions all over the world in the teaching of good prescribing practice and the assessment of prescribing knowledge.
