Exams

The Code of Practice rule that medical representatives should pass the exam within two years of starting to promote medicines does not apply to independent candidates. When completing your profile, enter the current date when asked for the date you started to promote medicines. 

​When you create your personal profile you are required to state the date you started working in a promotional role in the pharmaceutical industry for the purpose of compliance with the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Clause 16.3. The Code requires that representatives sit the exam within their first year and allows a maximum of 2 years for someone to pass the exam. Once you have exceeded 2 years from the date you started working in a promotional role you will not be able to book an exam unless you have received permission from the PMCPA to be allowed extra time.

 

If you are not working as a representative this requirement is not relevant to you. If you are not working as a representative, enter the date that you register to use the website as your start date. You will then have 2 years in which to complete the exam. If you need additional time please contact ABPI using the Contact Us form.

 

Please note that the date you starting working in industry refers to the date upon which you started in a role where you promote medicines and NOT the date when you first promoted medicines.

​The ABPI is committed to managing the ABPI examination to the highest standards of transparency and ethics. We expect all candidates and ABPI staff and contractors to be honourable in all aspects concerning the attempting and management of the exam process. 

However all institutions face the risk of things going wrong from time to time or of unknowingly harbouring illegal or unethical conduct. ABPI is committed to highest standards of openness, probity and accountability to prevent such situations occurring or to address them when they do occur.

Whistleblowing is the reporting of a suspected wrongdoing in relation to the ABPI examination. The ABPI has a policy for whistleblowing with regards to the ABPI exam, please click here ​to read it.