Pharmacy students/technician trainees: how are you preparing for the CPJE or for pharmacy practice?  

Obtain and read the new 6th edition (2008) of 

Pharmacy Law for California Pharmacists

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Pharmacy Law for California Pharmacists, the only comprehensive guide to the law of pharmacy in California, is now in a new sixth edition, published in January 2008.  It includes a Study Guide for the CPJE (California Pharmacist Jurisprudence Examination), leading the reader to the pages in the text (and the clinical materials on the Pharmacy Board's website) that will help with each element in the Board's examination content guide.  For practitioners, this book will help you review the law and update your knowledge on all the changes of the past few years.  Updates will be posted here at least annually, to allow you to follow easily the law and regulations as changes are made in the future.  

The text provides an  overview of the state and federal law governing the practice of pharmacy in California.  Included is discussion of statutes, regulations, and, where relevant, judicial decisions affecting pharmacy practice.

Pharmacy is a highly-regulated profession, and the details of that regulation are constantly shifting to accommodate additional practice settings, increased scope of practice for pharmacists and other health care personnel, and dramatic changes in technology. Every pharmacist must stay abreast of changes in the regulatory environment to ensure safe and legal practice.

Pharmacy Law for California Pharmacists was written for those already in the profession, for students, and for those inside and outside of California facing the  California Pharmacist Jurisprudence Examination (CPJE).  It attempts to make the law more comprehensible than it appears from reading the statutes and regulations themselves, while not oversimplifying what are often complex regulatory schemes.  Questions and examples are provided to help the understanding process.  This book is the required text for the mandatory Law and Ethics course at the UCSF and UCSD Schools of Pharmacy.

Prep courses for the CPJE are offered for hundreds of dollars.  Reading the relevant chapters of this text (guided by the Study Guide) is a much less expensive way to begin your preparation for CPJE, and the text will serve as a reference as you begin your practice of pharmacy in California.

Pharmacy Law for California Pharmacists was written by William L. Marcus, formerly counsel to the California State Board of Pharmacy for 20 years, and Marsha N. Cohen, Professor of Law at Hastings College of the Law, who specializes in food and drug and administrative agency law and was a two-term member of the California State Board of Pharmacy (and its first non-pharmacist president).