MPSC Pharmacist Syllabus 2022 – Download Detailed Syllabus

About Maharashtra Public Service Commission: Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) is a Constitutional Body established Under Article 315 of the Constitution of India which provides smooth and efficient functioning of the Government of Maharashtra by providing suitable candidates for various Government posts and advising them on various service matters like formulation of Recruitment Rules, advise on promotions, transfers, and disciplinary actions, etc.

Maharashtra Public Service Commission
Pharmacist Examination Pattern

Part I: Pharmaceutics, Dispensing, and Hospital Pharmacy

Formulations: Types, Preparation, Packaging, labeling, and Storage, Various Conventional and prolonged release drug delivery systems, per-oral and parenteral administration, novel routes of drug administration including pulmonary, nasal, ophthalmic, transdermal, etc., concepts of drugs stability, and Shelf-life.

Prescription: definition, various parts of prescription, their functions, handling of prescription, prescription charging policy, labeling requirements as per various schedules mentioned in Drugs and Cosmetics Act and its addendum, Pharmacy Act 1948, Drug Price Control Order as per regulatory requirements, Narcotic & Psychotropic substances Act and Rules.

Posology: Definition, factors affecting dose selection, Calculation of doses for Pediatric and geriatric patients.5 Sterile Products –their manufacturing and quality Control, Methods of Sterilization and validation thereof, Test for Sterility, Test for pyrogens, the concept of asepsis and maintenance of aseptic conditions, Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) and it’s functioning.

Microbiological Media: Preparation and Sterilization. Surgical dressings: Properties, sterilization, standards, and tests for sterility. Ligatures and Sutures: Absorbable and non-absorbable, preparations, standards, and tests for sterility.

Hospital and Drug Store: Layout, designs. staff, materials-coding, and stocking including storage conditions. Legal requirements, maintenance of various registers. Use of Computers for day-to-day record keeping. Inventory control concept of EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) & Purchase Policy. Drug distribution systems in hospitals – Dispensing to in-patients & out-patients. Safe use of drugs in hospitals.

Clinical Pharmacy – Drug & poison information services & its management: Patient Counseling, Patient information leaflets, patient medication adherence, drug-drug, drug-food interactions, adverse drug reactions. Use of software and databases for monitoring drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, and idiosyncratic reactions.

Part-II: Pharmacology & Toxicology:

Concepts of health and disease, causative agents, and prevention of diseases like Aids, Tuberculosis. A brief outline of communicable diseases, models of transmission, and prevention.

First aid, emergency treatment of shock, snake bites, burns, poisoning, fractures Pharmacology of following classes of drugs Antihypertensives, antianginal agents, antihyperlipidemic agents, Cardiotonics, antiallergics, antidiabetics, antimicrobials, and antibiotics including the newer generation antibiotics, antiulcer agents, antacid, anti-HIV agents, antidepressants.

Clinical toxicology: Clinical symptoms and management of acute poisoning due to pesticides, opiates, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, alcohol (ethanol & methanol), paracetamol and salicylates, heavy metals- Arsenic, lead, mercury, radiation poisoning.

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