MPSC Pharmacist Exam Syllabus

MPSC Pharmacist Exam Syllabus: Syllabus for the post of Pharmacist in Government Medical College, Maharashtra Medical Education & Research Service Group-B

Standard: Degree	Total Marks: 100
Medium: English	No. of Question: 100
Nature of Paper: Objective Type	Duration: One Hour

Eligibility for MPSC Pharmacist Exam

Possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy or Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Tech.) with Pharmacy or Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals; And Thereafter Possess experience of not less than One year in maintenance and supervision of Medical stores or experience of teaching Pharmacy as Demonstrator or in a similar or higher post in teaching hospitals or Medical Colleges, gained after acquiring the beforementioned qualifications

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Part 1: Pharmaceutics, Dispensing, and Hospital Pharmacy

Formulations

Types, Preparation, Packaging, labeling and Storage, Various Conventional and prolonged-release drug delivery systems, per-oral and parenteral administration, novel routes of drug administration including pulmonary, nasal, transdermal, etc., concepts of drugs stability and Shelf-life.

Prescription

Definition, various parts of prescription, their functions, handling of prescription, prescription charging policy, labeling requirements as per various schedules mentioned in Drugs and Cosmetics Act and its addendum, Pharmacy Act 1948. Drug Price Control Order as per regulatory requirements, Narcotic & Psychotropic substances Act and Rules. 3.

Posology

Definition, factors affecting dose selection, Calculation of doses for pediatric and geriatric patients. MPSC Pharmacist Exam Syllabus

Study of

Various pharmacopeias, monographs, and various quality control tests mentioned in the monographs- I.P. S.P., E.P., B.P.

Sterile Products

Their manufacturing and quality Control, Methods of Sterilization and validation thereof, Test for Sterility, Test for pyrogens, the concept of asepsis and maintenance of aseptic conditions, Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD), and its functioning.

Microbiological Media: Preparation and Sterilization.

Surgical dressings: Properties, sterilization, standards, and tests for sterility.

Ligatures and Sutures: Absorbable and non-absorbable, preparations, standards, and tests for sterility.

Hospital and Drug Store

Layout, designs. staff, materials-coding, and stocking including storage conditions. Legal requirements, maintenance of various registers. Use of Computers for day-to-day record keeping. Inventory control concept of EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) & Purchase policy. Drug distribution systems in hospitals- Dispensing to in-patients & out-patients. Safe use of drugs in hospitals. MPSC Pharmacist Exam Syllabus

Clinical Pharmacy

Drug & poison information services & its management Patient Counseling, Patient information leaflets, patient medication adherence drug-drug, drug-food interactions, adverse drug reactions. Use of software and databases for monitoring drug interactions, and adverse drug reactions am idiosyncratic reactions.

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Part II: Pharmacology and Toxicology

Concepts

Health and disease, causative agents, and prevention of diseases like Aids, Tuberculosis. A brief outline of communicable diseases, models of transmission, and prevention.

First aid, emergency treatment of shock, snake bites, burns, poisoning, fractures.

Pharmacology of following classes of drugs

Antihypertensives, antianginal agents, antihyperlipidemic agents, Cardiotonics, antiallergics, antidiabetics, antimicrobials, and antibiotics including the newer generation antibiotics, antiulcer agents, antacid, anti-HIV agents, antidepressants.

MPSC Pharmacist Exam Syllabus

Clinical toxicology

Clinical symptoms and management of acute poisoning due to pesticides, opiates, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, alcohol (ethanol & methanol). paracetamol and salicylates, heavy metals- Arsenic, lead, mercury, radiation poisoning.

MPSC Pharmacist Exam Syllabus

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