Pharmacist in relation to his profession MCQs With Answer

Pharmacist in relation to his profession MCQs With Answer

This concise, keyword-rich introduction helps B.Pharm students understand the pharmacist’s multifaceted professional role: clinical pharmacy, dispensing, compounding, medication safety, pharmacovigilance, ethics, pharmacy law, GMP, and patient counselling. Emphasis is on pharmaceutical care, drug interactions, therapeutic drug monitoring, inventory management, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance. These topics build core competencies for safe medication use, rational prescribing, and effective communication with patients and healthcare teams. The MCQs below are designed to deepen understanding of practical responsibilities, critical reasoning, and regulatory knowledge required for competent professional practice in community, hospital, and industrial pharmacy settings. Now let’s test your knowledge with 30 MCQs on this topic.

Q1. What is the primary professional responsibility of a pharmacist in patient care?

• Manufacturing all medications in the hospital
• Patient counselling and ensuring safe, effective medication use
• Prescribing antibiotics independently
• Performing surgical procedures

Correct Answer: Patient counselling and ensuring safe, effective medication use

Q2. Which activity is a core function of clinical pharmacy?

• Managing hospital finances
• Optimizing pharmacotherapy through medication review
• Operating imaging equipment
• Cleaning the pharmacy premises

Correct Answer: Optimizing pharmacotherapy through medication review

Q3. Which document outlines legal requirements for dispensing prescription medicines?

• Pharmacopoeia monograph
• Prescription order and relevant pharmacy law
• Clinical trial protocol
• Marketing authorization leaflet

Correct Answer: Prescription order and relevant pharmacy law

Q4. Pharmacovigilance primarily deals with:

• Marketing strategies for new drugs
• Monitoring and reporting adverse drug reactions
• Compounding sterile injectables only
• Designing clinical trials

Correct Answer: Monitoring and reporting adverse drug reactions

Q5. Which principle is essential when counselling patients about medicines?

• Use of technical jargon to sound professional
• Providing clear, accurate, and relevant information
• Avoiding questions about adherence
• Withholding side-effect information

Correct Answer: Providing clear, accurate, and relevant information

Q6. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are most relevant to which pharmacy sector?

• Community dispensing only
• Industrial pharmaceutical production
• Patient counselling in clinics
• Pharmacovigilance reporting

Correct Answer: Industrial pharmaceutical production

Q7. Which is the best action when a prescription has an illegible dose?

• Dispense the most common dose
• Call or consult the prescriber to clarify
• Refuse to dispense without explanation
• Ask the patient to choose a dose

Correct Answer: Call or consult the prescriber to clarify

Q8. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is most useful for drugs that have:

• Wide therapeutic indices and predictable effects
• Narrow therapeutic indices and variable kinetics
• Only topical usage
• No measurable serum concentration

Correct Answer: Narrow therapeutic indices and variable kinetics

Q9. Which task falls under inventory management in pharmacy practice?

• Counselling patients on lifestyle changes
• Maintaining stock levels and expiry control
• Conducting clinical trials
• Performing sterile compounding only

Correct Answer: Maintaining stock levels and expiry control

Q10. A medication error should be reported to improve safety; the pharmacist’s first step is to:

• Ignore it if the patient was unharmed
• Document the incident and inform the healthcare team
• Discipline the staff member immediately
• Delete the record to avoid blame

Correct Answer: Document the incident and inform the healthcare team

Q11. Which of the following best describes pharmaceutical care?

• Maximizing pharmacy profits
• Responsible provision of drug therapy to achieve definite outcomes
• Only preparing prescriptions
• Marketing over-the-counter products

Correct Answer: Responsible provision of drug therapy to achieve definite outcomes

Q12. When compounding an extemporaneous preparation, the pharmacist must ensure:

• No documentation is needed
• Appropriate formulation, calculations, labeling, and stability considerations
• Use of random ingredients without checks
• Only speed matters, not accuracy

Correct Answer: Appropriate formulation, calculations, labeling, and stability considerations

Q13. Which legislation typically governs controlled substances dispensing?

• Food safety regulations
• Drugs and narcotics control laws
• Building codes
• Patent law only

Correct Answer: Drugs and narcotics control laws

Q14. The pharmacist’s role in antimicrobial stewardship includes:

• Prescribing antibiotics for any patient
• Reviewing therapy, promoting appropriate selection and duration
• Avoiding any communication with prescribers
• Eliminating all narrow-spectrum agents

Correct Answer: Reviewing therapy, promoting appropriate selection and duration

Q15. Which interaction is most important to check before dispensing a new prescription?

• Potential drug–drug interactions with the patient’s current medications
• Color preferences of the tablet
• Manufacturer’s logo
• Pharmacy staff vacation schedule

Correct Answer: Potential drug–drug interactions with the patient’s current medications

Q16. What is the correct storage condition term for medicines requiring refrigeration?

• Store below freezing point
• Store between 2°C and 8°C
• Store at room light
• Store at high humidity only

Correct Answer: Store between 2°C and 8°C

Q17. Which is a key element of an effective patient counselling session?

• Asking open-ended questions to assess understanding
• Reading the label verbatim without engagement
• Rushing through information
• Avoiding mention of side effects

Correct Answer: Asking open-ended questions to assess understanding

Q18. Bioavailability refers to:

• Rate and extent of active drug reaching systemic circulation
• Only the solubility of the drug
• The taste of an oral formulation
• The color of the tablet coating

Correct Answer: Rate and extent of active drug reaching systemic circulation

Q19. A pharmacy formulary is used to:

• List approved medicines for use within a healthcare setting
• Store expired medicines
• Replace clinical guidelines entirely
• Market cosmetic products

Correct Answer: List approved medicines for use within a healthcare setting

Q20. Which lab value is most relevant when adjusting dosing for renally-excreted drugs?

• Liver enzyme levels only
• Creatinine clearance or estimated glomerular filtration rate
• Platelet count
• Serum glucose only

Correct Answer: Creatinine clearance or estimated glomerular filtration rate

Q21. Which practice supports rational prescribing?

• Prescribing the newest drug regardless of evidence
• Choosing drugs based on evidence, indication, safety, and cost-effectiveness
• Preferring brand names only
• Prescribing multiple drugs to treat one symptom

Correct Answer: Choosing drugs based on evidence, indication, safety, and cost-effectiveness

Q22. Stability testing in the pharmacy context helps determine:

• Shelf life and appropriate storage conditions of preparations
• Patient satisfaction scores
• Pharmacy interior design
• Staff training needs only

Correct Answer: Shelf life and appropriate storage conditions of preparations

Q23. Which method helps prevent dispensing errors?

• Using tall-man lettering and double-check systems
• Relying solely on memory
• Ignoring look-alike/sound-alike warnings
• Skipping prescription clarification

Correct Answer: Using tall-man lettering and double-check systems

Q24. In community pharmacy, OTC recommendation should be based on:

• Patient symptoms, comorbidities, and evidence-based product choice
• Only the most profitable product
• The pharmacist’s personal preference exclusively
• Advertising materials

Correct Answer: Patient symptoms, comorbidities, and evidence-based product choice

Q25. Which parameter is most important for calculating pediatric doses?

• Adult average dose only
• Weight-based dose (mg/kg) and age considerations
• Color of the medicine
• Pharmacy opening hours

Correct Answer: Weight-based dose (mg/kg) and age considerations

Q26. Which ethical principle requires pharmacists to act in the patient’s best interest?

• Autonomy
• Beneficence
• Nonmaleficence only
• Profit maximization

Correct Answer: Beneficence

Q27. Which test assesses tablet hardness and friability as part of quality control?

• Disintegration and dissolution tests
• Tablet hardness and friability testing
• Only visual inspection
• Microbiological culture only

Correct Answer: Tablet hardness and friability testing

Q28. What is the pharmacist’s role in clinical trials?

• Designing clinical endpoints without oversight
• Managing investigational drug handling, storage, dispensing, and documentation
• Recruiting patients without consent
• Ignoring protocol requirements

Correct Answer: Managing investigational drug handling, storage, dispensing, and documentation

Q29. Which counseling point is essential for patients on warfarin?

• Avoid monitoring INR
• Maintain consistent vitamin K intake and monitor INR regularly
• Stop therapy immediately if feeling well
• Take extra doses if a dose is missed

Correct Answer: Maintain consistent vitamin K intake and monitor INR regularly

Q30. Continuous professional development for pharmacists ensures:

• Stagnation in practice
• Up-to-date knowledge, skills, and improved patient care
• Less responsibility in patient counselling
• Only attendance at social events

Correct Answer: Up-to-date knowledge, skills, and improved patient care

G S Sachin

I am a Registered Pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act, 1948, and the founder of PharmacyFreak.com. I hold a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Science and Research. With a strong academic foundation and practical knowledge, I am committed to providing accurate, easy-to-understand content to support pharmacy students and professionals. My aim is to make complex pharmaceutical concepts accessible and useful for real-world application.

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