BCPS Bullets

Description

The 2026 edition is updated and improved! Originally published and updated annually since 2017, the updates and edits for 2026 BCPS Exam takers include: Atrial Fibrillation, Dementia, CHF, Hypertension, CKD, Diabetes, Angioedema, Vaccines, Sepsis, UTIs, Parkinson's disease, Fungal Infections, Stroke, and many more! If you talk to anyone who's taken the BCPS exam, you'll quickly understand that the BCPS exam will likely be the most challenging exam you'll ever take. You need all the resources you can get to make sure you are prepared! In addition to the exam being very difficult, you are likely a busy professional with very minimal free time. I’ve always had a hard time staying focused while studying from large review article-type study guides and have squandered hours reading while retaining very little. This book is intended to be a crash course/cheat sheet overview of the most highly testable material. I wanted to remember the really important stuff because I know it is impossible to know every minute detail. BCPS Bullets, the Condensed BCPS Study Guide will help prepare you for the exam as well as help you maximize your study time. We covered over 100+ disease states straight from the BCPS content outline provided by BPS and included important pearls for each condition including assessments, risk factors, most commonly used drugs of choice, must-know adverse effects, miscellaneous clinical pearls, notorious drug interactions, warnings, and precautions, and of course, relevant labs. I wanted to cover each disease state in 1-2 pages to try to ensure you are reviewing the most relevant content. We did go over 2 pages on some disease states, but we did our best to keep the information concise and critical for you to know in your preparation for becoming a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist. The book is over 300+ pages, but it is in bullet point format, and very easy to digest multiple disease states in a sitting. There is also some white space around the margins to take additional notes or highlight essential information to remember. As many of you are aware of the content outline, the BCPS exam is not all clinical. In addition to the disease states on the BCPS content outline, we’ve also included sections on biostatistics as well as important regulatory issues. I can assure you that there is no doubt this book will help in your preparation for becoming a BCPS pharmacist. The Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) is a designation from the Board of Pharmacy Specialties. The contents within this study guide are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties. Review: Abbreviated material review for the BCPS - To give you some context, I have been eyeing the BCPS for 7 years as a pharmacist. I usually spend more time in the ICU or ER than I do in pediatrics, OR, etc. This is meant for the pharmacist that has done the clinical work, but needs to refresh on other topics that they forgot or haven't really utilized in their field of work. I have attended the ASHP BCPS review and the ACCP BCPS review. I recommend taking the ACCP review (WITH THE EXTRA BIOSTATISTICS COURSE) for a more in depth review. They have a fall review (Oct.) in Arizona, and a winter review (Feb.) in Florida. The ASHP review (at the Mid-Year meeting during December) had some interesting portions, but some lecturers who couldn't care less and cannot pace the lectures. You pay $500+ for the class! This book will not tell you everything, but it will remind you of the material we all studied to get where we are. I just check Lexi-Comp or Uptodate on my phone for more detailed information. It does push other studying material for a separate site, but it is about 3 pages worth of it. Overall, it is a useful tool to use to refresh! Review: Easy read - Great for warming up to review due to brevity. Will need something deeper though IMO if you want to be successful.