Practise Geriatric Pharmacy Specialty Certification Examination (BCGP) with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) · Verified for 2026-10-11: BCGP Examination Specifications, effective January 2024, ECO created June 2022. BPS currently links this document under '2025 Administration and onward'; a replacement is anticipated for August 2027 onward. The workbook's Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (CGP) label is historical: BPS documents its transition to Board-Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) on January 1, 2017. The assigned CGP slug is preserved for the current successor examination.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- BPS Geriatric Pharmacy
- BPS Examination Content Outlines
- BCGP Examination Specifications — Effective January 2024
- Certified Geriatric Pharmacist Credential Moves to BPS
- BPS Update on Specialties
- NIDDK: Determining Drug Dosing in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease
- MedlinePlus: Delirium
- HIGN: The Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale
- HIGN Lawton IADL Assessment
- AMA Code of Medical Ethics: Informed Consent
- AMA Code of Medical Ethics: Advance Directives
- HIGN: Family Caregiving
- HIGN: The Modified Caregiver Strain Index
- WHO: Social Connection
- American Geriatrics Society 2023 Updated AGS Beers Criteria
- AGS: Updated Beers Criteria Will Help Ensure Medications Are Appropriate
- ASAM: Benzodiazepine Tapering
- Joint Clinical Practice Guideline on Benzodiazepine Tapering
- ADA: Older Adults — Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026
- IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
- AHRQ MATCH Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
- AHRQ MATCH Chapter 3: Designing the Medication Reconciliation Process
- AHRQ MATCH Chapter 4: Developing and Pilot Testing Change
- AHRQ MATCH Chapter 6: Assessment and Process Evaluation
- DailyMed: Spironolactone Prescribing Information
- DailyMed: FOSAMAX Prescribing Information
- DailyMed: SYNTHROID Prescribing Information
- NCI: Cancer Pain PDQ — Health Professional Version
- Cochrane Handbook Chapter 6: Effect Measures
- Cochrane Handbook Chapter 15: Interpreting Results
- STOPP/START Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing: Version 3
- Cochrane Handbook Chapter 20: Economic Evidence
- ISPOR Book of Terms: Health Care Cost, Quality, and Outcomes
- HIGN: The Modified Caregiver Strain Index Assessment
Geriatric Pharmacy Specialty Certification Examination (BCGP)
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An 86-year-old patient has substantial muscle wasting and a serum creatinine within the laboratory reference range. Before assessing a renally eliminated medicine, which interpretation is most appropriate?
Geriatric Pharmacy Specialty Certification Examination (BCGP)
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Geriatric Patient Population
1A1: Aging physiology — confirming kidney-function estimates
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