PEBC (Behavioural, social and administrative pharmacy sciences) Sample Questions
Categories: PEBC Canada
Ques. Which of the following would be the most effective method to prevent "inventory shrinkage" due to internal theft within a pharmacy?
a. Assigning the responsibility of ordering and receiving of inventory to one employee.
b. Implementing an employee bag check program at the end of shifts.
c. Hiring a uniformed security guard to monitor the pharmacy exits.
d. Offering incentives such as employee discounts on merchandise.
e. Installing mirrors and security cameras strategically throughout the pharmacy.
Ques. In the context of a pharmacy business, which of the following groups represent a market niche, rather than a market segment?
a. Women
b. The elderly population
c. Children with asthma
d. High-income earners
e. Parents of young children
Ques. An identical screening test for a disease is used in two Communities (A and B), but the proportion of false positive results among those who test positive in Community A is lower than those who test positive in Community B. What is the most likely explanation for this finding?
a. The specificity of the test is lower in Community A.
b. The specificity of the test is higher in Community A.
c. The prevalence of disease is lower in Community A.
d. The prevalence of disease is higher in Community A.
e. It is not possible to explain the difference between Community A and B.
Ques. "Medically necessary" services are established in Canada by the:
a. provincial governments.
b. provincial drug plans.
c. Canadian Medical Association.
d. federal government.
e. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Ques. Including a cost assessment in the protocol for a randomized, controlled clinical trial is called a:
a. cost-benefit analysis.
b. cost-minimization analysis.
c. cost-effectiveness analysis.
d. cost-efficacy analysis.
e. cost-utility analysis.
Ques. The best study design to assess intermittent or transient drug exposures is a:
a. case-control study.
b. retrospective cohort study.
c. randomized control study.
d. case-crossover study.
e. cross-sectional study.
Ques. Customer loyalty should be important to a pharmacy manager because it:
a. reduces the amount of time that pharmacists must spend with patients.
b. generates a stream of high revenue from an identifiable customer base.
c. helps the pharmacy staff to greet customers by their first names.
d. protects the pharmacy manager from liability claims arising from dispensing errors.
e. is costly to attract new customers.