Pharmacology + PANRE Together: The Highest-Yield Study Combo for Recert

If you’re recertifying and want the most score improvement per hour studied, the data-backed answer is almost always the same: shore up pharmacology. It threads through every organ system on the blueprint, it’s the content most likely to have drifted since you last studied it, and it’s dense enough that a focused pass produces outsized gains. That’s why pairing the two courses works so well.

The PANRE Review Course gives you the breadth — 1,200 questions across the full blueprint, 5 mock exams, and 100 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME. The Pharmacology Review Course gives you the depth exactly where it pays off most — 12.5 focused hours of AAPA Category 1 CME organized class-by-class. Run the pharmacology review first or alongside your board prep, and the drug questions scattered throughout the PANRE bank stop being the ones you dread.

The CME math is worth noting too. Together the two courses total 112.5 hours of AAPA Category 1 credit — comfortably covering a recertification cycle’s requirement while doing the actual work of getting you exam-ready. And both carry the optional Amazon or Apple gift-card add-on ($100–$1,500), so if you have an employer allowance, one combined purchase can cover your prep, your CME, and return real value to you.

There’s no trick here — just leverage. Pharmacology is the weak point most PAs share, board exams test it heavily, and fixing it lifts everything else. Do that alongside a full blueprint review and you walk in genuinely prepared, not just credentialed. Each course is $399.99 for 30 months of access.

Bundle your PANRE and Pharmacology prep →