ACCP’s latest addition to the Apple App store is the iPad-optimized version of ACCP Flip Cards: Pharmacotherapy. This mobile app combines the flash card experience with more than 300 patient care scenarios. The result is a fun, fast, and simple way to prepare for the Pharmacotherapy Specialty Certification Examination administered by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties.

The iPad-optimized version joins the previously released versions for Android phones and tablets and iPhones. In addition to on-the-go convenience, the mobile app enhances self-testing and evaluation in several ways. Items can be presented by examination domain or by system and patient care problems, or they can be randomly shuffled for a more challenging review. Scoring statistics provide instant feedback to direct a more focused review of selected areas.

A favorites feature enables the user to highlight the items that are especially interesting or that need additional review. A notes feature assists exam preparation by allowing the user to jot down reminders, mnemonic devices, or additional information. Other key elements include a handy table of reference values for common laboratory tests. Explained answers for each item assist learning and include one to five supporting references, each with a hyperlink to PubMed or another compiler.

Content in the mobile app is identical to that in the print version of ACCP Flip Cards: Pharmacotherapy. Items within Domain 1 (patient-specific pharmacotherapy) cover 17 disease-specific areas such as Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Neurology, Men’s and Women’s Health, Pediatrics, and Geriatrics. Other items provide coverage of topics in Domain 2 (retrieval, generation, interpretation, and dissemination of knowledge in pharmacotherapy) and Domain 3 (systems and population-based pharmacotherapy).

The print version of ACCP Flip Cards: Pharmacotherapy may be ordered from the ACCP Online Bookstore. The ACCP Flip Cards mobile app can only be purchased from the Apple App Store or from Google Play.