Licensure + Personnel
22%of exam
LicensureInternsTechniciansDisciplineImpairment Programs
Pharmacist Practice
33%of exam
PrescribingAdministrationCounselingReturnsPrivacy
Dispensing Requirements
24%of exam
Legitimate PurposeTransfersPMPLabelingProduct Selection
Pharmacy Operations
21%of exam
AcquisitionRecordsInventoryCompoundingFacility Licensure
Quick Facts
- Current exam
- Minnesota-specific MPJE
- Questions
- 120 total
- Scored items
- 100 scored, 20 pretest
- Time
- 2.5 hours
- Delivery
- Computer adaptive
- Item style
- Selected response
- Result
- Pass or fail
- Numeric cut
- Not publicly published
- Attempts
- Five per jurisdiction
- Test delivery
- Pearson test center
- Arrival
- At least 30 minutes early
- Identification
- One matching photo ID
- MN results
- Minnesota Board provides directly
- Current outline
- Valid through February 2027
- Outline change
- March 1, 2027
Current Blueprint Weights
People 22, Practice 33, Dispensing 24, Operations 21
People: licensure and personnelPractice: issuing and counselingDispensing: legitimacy and PMPOperations: records and facilities
Current vs 2027 Blueprint
Before March 2027
- Competency Statements
- Four weighted areas
- 22-33-24-21
March 2027 onward
- New Content Outline
- Four weighted domains
- 30-30-20-20
Testing date chooses blueprint
Source + Effective-Date Check
- Exam is before March 2027→Current Competency Statements(Four weighted areas)
- Exam starts March 2027→New Content Outline(Do not mix blueprints)
- Minnesota statute appears→Check Revisor annotations(2026 laws may amend)
- Rule and statute overlap→Apply both layers(Read every controlling text)
- Board guidance appears→Treat as interpretation(Guidance is nonbinding)
- Fee or deadline appears→Verify current portal(Amounts can change)
- Federal and state conflict→Choose prevailing law(Exam does not label source)
Current Exam Logistics
- Administrator
- NABP
- Scheduler
- Pearson after ATT
- Exam length
- Two and one-half hours
- Total items
- 120
- Operational items
- 100 scored
- Pretest items
- 20 unscored
- Delivery model
- Fixed-length adaptive exam
- Result format
- Pass or fail
- Attempt ceiling
- Five unless Board decides otherwise
- Arrival
- Thirty minutes early
- Required ID
- One photo ID
- Name rule
- Match e-Profile and ATT
- Break policy
- Current bulletin controls
- Minnesota results
- Board delivers directly
- Passing result
- Not a pharmacist license
Minnesota Source Order
Statute -> Rule -> Board -> Current Bulletin
Statute: enacted lawRule: binding detailBoard: official guidanceBulletin: exam logistics
Board vs NABP
Minnesota Board
- Determines eligibility
- Issues results directly
- Issues pharmacist license
NABP
- Develops MPJE
- Runs e-Profile process
- Sends ATT
Exam pass is not licensure
Technician Ratio Check
- Task is ordinary→Use rule basic two-to-one(Certified plus-one may reach three)
- Task is IV admixture→Use three-to-one(Specified function)
- Task is unit dose→Use three-to-one(Specified function)
- Task is prepackaging→Use three-to-one(Specified function)
- Task is compounding→Use three-to-one(Specified function)
- Certified technician is present→Add one above governing ratio(Three ordinary; four specified)
- Worker performs clerical duties only→Exclude from rule ratio(Prescription data entry differs)
- Worker only delivers filled orders→Exclude from rule ratio(Delivery-only personnel)
- Intern accrues required hours→Exclude from technician count(Rule 1,600-hour exception)
- Higher ratio is requested→Check Board-approved petition(PIC must address safety)
Application + Current Fees
- Step 1
- Review Minnesota requirements
- Step 2
- Submit Minnesota eligibility application
- Step 3
- Apply through NABP e-Profile
- Step 4
- Purchase after eligibility
- Step 5
- Receive ATT; schedule Pearson
- MN application
- $225; checked August 2026
- NABP application
- $100; checked August 2026
- NABP exam purchase
- $170; checked August 2026
- MN original license
- $225; checked August 2026
- Background-check fee
- Verify current Board portal
- Fee caveat
- Verify before every payment
- ADA request
- Submit with eligibility application
- After both exams
- Pay license fee
- Practice begins
- After license number issues
Technician Ratio Layers
Rule two, functions three, certified plus one
Statute: up to threeBasic: two-to-oneFunctions: three-to-oneCertified present: plus oneWaiver: Board petition
Rule Ratio vs Statute
Rule 6800.3850
- Basic ratio two-to-one
- Specified functions three-to-one
- Task-specific starting point
Section 151.102
- Three-tech statutory framework
- Certified technician plus-one
- PIC waiver pathway
Apply both ratio layers
Blueprint + Source Hierarchy
- Before March 2027
- Use Competency Statements
- Starting March 2027
- Use new Content Outline
- Current Area 1
- Licensure/Personnel, 22%
- Current Area 2
- Pharmacist Practice, 33%
- Current Area 3
- Dispensing Requirements, 24%
- Current Area 4
- Pharmacy Operations, 21%
- 2027 Areas 1-2
- Pharmacy practice 30%; medication use 30%
- 2027 Areas 3-4
- Legal obligations 20%; operations 20%
- Federal/state labels
- Not separated on exam
- Answer standard
- Prevailing law in Minnesota
- Practice Act
- Minnesota chapter 151
- Controlled substances
- Minnesota chapter 152
- Board rules
- Minnesota chapter 6800
- 2026 changes
- Read session-law annotations
- Board guidance
- Interpretive, not binding law
Licensure Flow
Board eligibility, NABP exam, Board license
Eligibility before ATTPass both examsPay original feeWait for license number
Pharmacist Licensure + Interns
- Minimum age
- At least 18
- Education
- Board-accepted pharmacy graduate
- Foreign graduates
- Board equivalency requirements
- Required examinations
- NAPLEX and Minnesota MPJE
- Intern hours
- At least 1,600
- Hour supervision
- Registered preceptor directs
- First-year credit
- Maximum 80 structured hours
- Concurrent internship
- Maximum 400 hours
- Weekly credit
- Maximum 54 across sites
- Intern expiration
- September 30 annually
- Intern renewal due
- September 1 annually
- Progress affidavit
- Due June 15
- License background check
- Fingerprint-based CBC
- Board eligibility
- Precedes NABP ATT
Technician Ratio Layers
- Technician work
- No professional judgment
- Supervision
- Personal and direct
- Final responsibility
- Supervising pharmacist retains
- Statutory framework
- Up to three per pharmacist
- Rule basic ratio
- Two technicians per pharmacist
- Specified functions
- Three technicians per pharmacist
- Specified IV work
- Intravenous admixture preparation
- Specified packaging
- Patient-specific unit dose
- Specified prepackaging
- Three-to-one ratio
- Specified compounding
- Three-to-one ratio
- Statutory extension
- One above statute or rule
- Extension condition
- One certified technician present
- Ordinary certified ceiling
- Three technicians per pharmacist
- Specified certified ceiling
- Four technicians per pharmacist
- Higher ratio
- PIC petitions Board
- Petition timing
- Approved after 90 days unless denied
- Rule work area
- Pharmacist stationed in same area
- Clerical-only staff
- Excluded from rule ratio
- Delivery-only staff
- Excluded from rule ratio
- Qualifying intern
- Excluded while accruing 1,600 hours
- Technician status
- Board registration required
- Written procedures
- PIC develops and updates
- Training records
- Retain at least two years
Renewal + Mandatory Reporting
- Pharmacist renewal
- Annual
- Renewal opens
- January 1
- Renewal due
- February 1
- Pharmacist CE
- 30 hours per biennium
- CE reporting
- September 30, even years
- Technician CE
- 20 hours per biennium
- Tech reporting period
- Ends July 31 odd years
- Employer discipline
- Pharmacy reports Board
- Pre-charge resignation
- Pharmacy reports Board
- Personal knowledge
- Licensee reports misconduct
- Self-reporting
- Report personal discipline
- Report deadline
- Within 30 days
- Good-faith reporting
- Statutory immunity applies
- Board investigation
- Full cooperation required
Minnesota Pharmacist Scope
- Collaborative therapy
- Written protocol or agreement
- Hormonal contraception
- Training and protocol required
- Nicotine replacement
- Training and protocol required
- Opiate antagonists
- Training and protocol required
- HIV prevention
- Training and protocol required
- Prescribing delegation
- Not permitted
- OUD intern preparation
- Pharmacist reviews, approves, signs
- 2026 OUD authority
- Effective August 1, 2026
- OUD drug scope
- Legend and Schedule III-V
- OUD indication
- Indicated and medically necessary
- OUD documentation
- Assessment, treatment, response, monitoring
- OUD training
- Federal practitioner training
- OUD controlled drugs
- Appropriate DEA registration
- OUD counseling
- Proper use, follow-up, rule information
- OUD delegation
- Prescribing remains pharmacist-only
Counseling + Work Conditions
- New prescription
- Pharmacist initiates counseling
- Refill counseling
- Professional judgment controls
- Patient refusal
- Consultation may be declined
- Material omission
- Document circumstances
- Mail delivery
- Written information plus phone
- Long-distance access
- Toll-free number provided
- Institutional exception
- Authorized staff administer
- Maximum required shift
- Twelve continuous hours
- Meal break trigger
- Over six continuous hours
- Meal break
- Thirty uninterrupted minutes
- Open pharmacy
- Pharmacist physically present
- Brief absence
- Pharmacy-practice purpose only
- Break dispensing
- Only pharmacist-certified prescriptions
- Deferred counseling
- Post-break contact effort
- Break documentation
- Retain at least two years
PMP Register vs Review
Pharmacist account
- Registration generally mandatory
- Maintain annual profile
- Access for current patients
Mandatory review
- Prescriber-focused statutory duty
- Initial II-IV opiate
- Listed exemptions apply
Registration is not universal checking
PMP Duty Check
- Reportable MN II-V dispensed→Report daily(Same or next business day)
- Gabapentin is dispensed→Report daily(Drug of concern)
- Butalbital is dispensed→Report daily(All formulations)
- Nothing reportable dispensed→Submit zero report(Daily file required)
- Pharmacy remains closed→File each day separately(Submit when reopened)
- Reporting exemption may apply→Submit exemption request(Not self-executing)
- Pharmacist practices in Minnesota→Maintain PMP account(Annual profile review)
- Pharmacist considers dispensing→Access is permitted(No general check mandate)
- Prescriber issues initial opiate→Check statutory review rule(Exceptions may apply)
Minnesota Prescriptions + Refills
- Original orders
- Retain at least two years
- Electronic orders
- Keep original received format
- Refill consent
- Prescriber authorization required
- Emergency legend refill
- All statutory conditions required
- Pharmacy record
- Prior consistent fills required
- Contact attempt
- Prescriber unavailable after attempt
- Clinical necessity
- Essential therapy; omission causes harm
- Emergency comparison
- Thirty days versus original quantity
- Emergency maximum
- Use the smaller quantity
- Standard-unit exception
- One unit may exceed thirty days
- Emergency frequency
- Drug-patient pair: once per twelve months
- Prescriber notice
- Within 72 hours
- Further refills
- Require practitioner authorization
- Controlled exclusion
- Schedules II-V generally excluded
- Seizure exception
- Maximum 72-hour supply
- Controlled purchase ID
- Photo ID unless known
- Adult acute opioid
- Seven-day supply limit
- Minor acute opioid
- Five-day supply limit
- Acute dental opioid
- Four-day supply limit
- Clinical exception
- Documented judgment may exceed
Schedule II vs III-IV
Schedule II
- No refills
- Minnesota transfer prohibited
- Special partial-fill rules
Schedule III-IV
- Five refills maximum
- Six-month limit
- DEA transfer limits
Zero refills vs five-in-six
Refill + Partial-Fill Check
- Drug is Schedule II→No refills(New prescription required)
- Drug is Schedule III-IV→Apply five-in-six(Prescriber consent documented)
- Drug is Schedule V→Read authorization(State law still applies)
- CII stock is short→Use 72-hour rule(Traditional partial fill)
- Patient requests CII partial→Use thirty-day rule(One prescription total)
- Patient is LTCF/terminal→Use sixty-day rule(Document each partial)
- Expired legend therapy risks harm→Test MN emergency conditions(Prior fills and contact attempt)
- Emergency quantity is calculated→Choose smaller statutory amount(Standard-unit exception may apply)
- Emergency refill was dispensed→Notify within 72 hours(Further refills need authorization)
Substitution + Minnesota Labels
- Paper DAW
- Prescriber personally handwrites
- Electronic DAW
- Prescriber individually indicates
- DAW default
- Not permitted electronically
- Generic condition
- Less expensive equivalent available
- Generic disclosure
- Tell purchaser first
- Purchaser objection
- Blocks substitution
- Pharmacist judgment
- Therapeutically equivalent and interchangeable
- Biologic substitute
- FDA-designated interchangeable product
- Biologic notice
- Tell purchaser
- Prescriber communication
- Within five business days
- Label manufacturer
- Manufacturer or distributor named
- Opioid label starts
- Caution: Opioid
- Opioid label states
- Risk of overdose and addiction
- Accessible labels
- No-cost upon request
- Accessible formats
- Large print, Braille, alternatives
- All-pharmacy deadline
- January 1, 2026
Emergency Refill vs Oral CII
MN legend refill
- Expired refill authority
- Chronic harm prevention
- Smaller amount; unit exception
Federal oral CII
- True emergency only
- Emergency quantity only
- Seven-day follow-up
Different statutes and triggers
Minnesota Dispensing Check
- Order arrives→Verify lawful prescriber(Check scope and registration)
- Controlled drug appears→Confirm legitimate purpose(Corresponding responsibility)
- Substitution is possible→Check DAW and equivalence(Disclose to purchaser)
- Opioid is outpatient→Apply opioid warning(Exact statutory wording)
- Accessible label requested→Provide no-cost format(All pharmacies since 2026)
- Counseling is required→Pharmacist communicates(Document exceptions)
- Transfer is requested→Identify schedule first(Minnesota bars CII transfer)
Minnesota PMP Duties
- Reportable schedules
- Minnesota Schedule II-V
- Drug of concern
- Gabapentin
- Additional drug
- All butalbital formulations
- Reporting cadence
- Same or next business day
- No dispensing
- Submit daily zero report
- Closed days
- Separate zero report each day
- Board exemption categories
- Require exemption request
- Statutory reporting exceptions
- Read section 152.126
- Submission errors
- Correct within seven days
- Practicing pharmacist
- Register and maintain account
- Profile maintenance
- Review annually
- Dispensing access
- Current patient; dispensing or considering
- Pharmaceutical care
- Consent or prescriber consultation
- Pharmacist check mandate
- No general statutory mandate
- Prescriber initial check
- Schedule II-IV opiate
- Chronic-opiate review
- At least every three months
- Prescriber exemptions
- Read section 152.126
- Delegate auditing
- At least quarterly
- Improper delegate access
- Remove immediately
- Board notification
- Within seven days
- Departing delegate
- Terminate within three business days
Generic vs Biologic Substitution
Generic
- Therapeutically equivalent
- Purchaser disclosure
- Purchaser may object
Biologic
- FDA interchangeable
- Purchaser notification
- Prescriber communication often required
Equivalence vs interchangeability designation
Federal Controlled Prescriptions
- Legitimate purpose
- Usual professional course
- Corresponding responsibility
- Prescriber and pharmacist share
- Schedule II
- No refills
- Schedule III-IV
- Five refills within six months
- Schedule V
- As authorized, subject state law
- Emergency oral CII
- Emergency quantity only
- Emergency follow-up
- Within seven days
- Multiple CII orders
- Maximum ninety-day total
- Requested CII partial
- Remainder within thirty days
- LTCF/terminal partial
- Up to sixty days
- Stock-shortage partial
- Remainder within 72 hours
- Federal-state overlay
- Apply all controlling requirements
PMP Report vs Access
Reporting
- Dispensers submit data
- Daily or next business day
- Zero reports required
Accessing
- Permissible users only
- Current-patient purposes
- Privacy safeguards required
Submitting data differs from querying
Transfers + Record Retention
- Minnesota Schedule II
- Transfer prohibited
- Schedule III-V
- Follow current DEA limits
- Transfer communication
- Pharmacist or registered intern
- Transferring record
- Void remaining refills
- Receiving record
- Mark transfer or copy
- Patient notice
- Original becomes invalid
- Both pharmacies
- Retain two years
- Retention anchor
- Date of last filling
- Shared database
- Board-approved system exception
- Never-dispensed order
- Transfer under listed conditions
- Informational copy
- Not valid prescription
- Federal minimum records
- Two years
Standard vs Accessible Label
Standard label
- Immediate container
- Manufacturer or distributor
- Other required content
Accessible label
- Patient requests
- No additional cost
- Large print or Braille
Accessibility supplements required content
DEA Form Trio
222 orders, 106 losses, 41 destruction
222: Schedule II ordering106: theft or loss41: controlled destruction
DEA Form 106 vs 41
Form 106
- Theft or significant loss
- One-business-day initial notice
- Electronic filing deadline
Form 41
- Controlled-substance destruction
- Tracks lawful disposal
- Not a theft report
Loss reporting vs destruction
DEA Forms + Inventory
- Form 222
- Schedule II ordering
- CSOS
- Electronic Schedule II ordering
- Form 106
- Theft or significant loss
- Initial loss notice
- Within one business day
- Electronic Form 106
- Within 45 calendar days
- Form 41
- Controlled-substance destruction
- Form 224
- Pharmacy DEA registration
- Inventory frequency
- At least biennially
- Schedule II count
- Exact count
- Schedule III-V count
- Estimate generally allowed
- Large opened container
- Exact above 1,000 units
- Schedule II records
- Maintain separately
- Schedule III-V records
- Separate or readily retrievable
Minnesota Pharmacy Operations
- Every pharmacy
- Designated pharmacist-in-charge
- PIC locations
- Normally one pharmacy
- PIC policies
- Procurement through dispensing
- PIC supervision
- Professional and support staff
- PIC security
- Drug safekeeping system
- PIC records
- Drug recordkeeping system
- PIC quality
- Error monitoring policies
- PIC termination
- Notify Board immediately
- Successor PIC
- Designate and notify immediately
- Inspection deficiency
- Respond within thirty days
- Minnesota deliveries
- Shipping pharmacy needs license
- New pharmacy filing
- At least sixty days early
- Pharmacy renewal
- June 30 annually
- Closed pharmacy
- Access generally prohibited
- Patient profiles
- Retain two years
Common Traps
Using the 2027 Outline Early
Current weights last through February ≠ Testing date selects blueprint
Inventing a Passing Percentage
NABP reports pass or fail ≠ No numeric cut published
Treating Pass as Licensure
Board must issue license ≠ Wait for license number
Calling the Ratio Simply Three
Rule basic ratio is two ≠ Specified functions differ
Missing the Certified Plus-One
One certified technician must be present ≠ Waiver is separate
Universal Pharmacist PMP Checks
Pharmacists generally register ≠ Prescriber review has mandates
Ignoring Gabapentin Reporting
Gabapentin is reportable ≠ It is not state controlled
Forgetting Zero Reports
Daily reporting includes zero days ≠ Follow Board submission procedures
Transferring Minnesota CII
Minnesota rule prohibits transfer ≠ Federal flexibility cannot override
Combining Emergency Pathways
Legend refill differs from oral CII ≠ Triggers and quantities differ
Missing 2026 OUD Authority
New authority began August 2026 ≠ Training and DEA conditions apply
Assuming DAW Defaults
Electronic default is prohibited ≠ Prescriber marks each order
Skipping Accessible Labels
All pharmacies covered since 2026 ≠ Patient request triggers duty
Confusing Forms 106 and 41
106 reports theft or loss ≠ 41 documents destruction
Last Minute
- 1.Confirm your exact testing date
- 2.Use the matching NABP blueprint
- 3.Review the current Candidate Bulletin
- 4.Verify fees in your e-Profile
- 5.Match your photo ID name
- 6.Arrive thirty minutes early
- 7.Know all four current weights
- 8.Apply prevailing Minnesota law
- 9.Check 2026 session-law annotations
- 10.Separate statute from Board guidance
- 11.Layer both technician-ratio sources
- 12.Remember the certified plus-one
- 13.Know the 1,600 intern hours
- 14.Separate PMP reporting from checking
- 15.Include gabapentin and butalbital
- 16.Remember daily zero reporting
- 17.Minnesota bars Schedule II transfer
- 18.Separate all partial-fill timelines
- 19.Check Minnesota opioid-day limits
- 20.Apply accessible-label duties
- 21.Know the new OUD authority
- 22.Wait for the license number
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