Community pharmacy · simulation lab
Stand behind the counter.
Receive a prescription, read the patient's record, run the clinical checks yourself, pick the right pack from the right batch, label it, counsel the person in front of you and write the record. Ten cases, from a routine course of antibiotics to the ones that belong to a doctor rather than a pharmacist.
Cases
Take them in any order. Each one generates from a fixed seed, so a case can be replayed exactly and discussed with a tutor afterwards.
- Beginner
A straightforward course of antibiotics
A young adult with a chest infection. Work the counter from end to end.
~8 min - Beginner
The quantity does not match the course
A dental abscess. Read what is written, then check that the numbers agree.
~9 min - Intermediate
A new angina medicine
A cardiologist has added a preventive medicine. Read the whole medication list.
~11 min - Intermediate
An antibiotic on top of a statin
A chest infection in a patient already on regular medicines.
~11 min - Advanced
A urinary infection, and an allergy card
Read the allergy record before you read anything else. Look-alike packs are on the shelf.
~13 min - Advanced
A child's ear infection
A four-year-old, weighed at the clinic this morning. Check the dose yourself.
~13 min - Clinical challenge
Two items, an anticoagulant and a kidney
An older patient on warfarin. More than one thing on this prescription needs you.
~16 min - OTC challengeNo prescription
Something for hay fever
No prescription. Assess first, then decide whether this is yours to treat.
~10 min - Emergency referralNo prescription
"Something to stop it" — a nine-month-old
A father asking for an anti-diarrhoeal for his baby. Assess before you reach for anything.
~11 min - Emergency referralNo prescription
"Just a strong antacid"
A request for indigestion relief. Listen to the whole description before you sell anything.
~10 min
For educational use only. Every patient, prescription, batch number and price here is fictional. Doses, interactions and counselling points are teaching values chosen to make the workflow learnable — they do not replace the current formulary, the product literature, or the judgement of a registered pharmacist.
Next case number: 0001