Learner

The South African Pharmacy Council (Council) will conduct the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA) for learners who successfully complete the requirements for the new Occupational Certificate: Pharmacist’s Assistant Basic (part qualification), Pharmacist’s Assistant Post-Basic and Pharmacy Technician.

The EISA is a national assessment leading to the awarding of an Occupational Certificate and ensures that the assessments of the Occupational Qualifications are standardised, consistent and reliable. The EISA is based on a set of Exit Level Outcomes (ELO) which describe the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for a generalist pharmacy support personnel (PSP).

Council resolved that currently qualified pharmacist’s assistants (basic) and pharmacist’s assistants (post-basic) intending to enrol on the new Occupational Certificate qualification as pharmacist’s assistants (learner post-basic) or learner pharmacy technicians, respectively, must write the EISA.

                       EXTERNAL INTEGRATED SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT (EISA)

                       Please click here to access the Practice EISA (4 February 2025).

                       Only candidates booked for the EISA will be able to access the assessment.

Step-by-step guide for accessing the EISA tutorial (Download PDF tutorial here (click to download) or watch video below)

  Click here to watch the step-by-step video on YouTube.

FORMAT OF THE EISA

The EISA consists of one paper comprising of the calculation and general sections.

• The EISA for the basic will be written over three and a half (3¹/₂) hours.
• The EISA for the post-basic will be written over four and a half (4¹/₂) hours. The calculation section will be written over one and a half hours (1¹/₂) hours and the general section over three (3) hours.
• The EISA for the pharmacy technician will be written over five and a half (5¹/₂) hours. The calculation section will be written over one and a half hours (1¹/₂) hours and the general section over three (3) hours.

PRACTICE PAPERS

• You may download the practice pharmacist’s assistant (basic) EISA Paper by clicking here and the model answers by clicking here.
• The practice pharmacist’s assistant (post- basic) EISA paper will be published once the first cohort of learners on the Occupational Certificate: Pharmacist’s Assistant Post-Basic are enrolled.
• The practice pharmacy technician EISA paper will be published once the regulations for pharmacy technicians are promulgated.

MANUAL AND BLUEPRINT

• The blueprint for the pharmacist’s assistant (basic) EISA is available in the 2024 External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA) for Pharmacist’s Assistant (Basic).  Click here  to download the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA) for Pharmacist’s Assistant (Basic) Manual.
• The manual for the pharmacist’s assistant (post-basic) EISA will be published once the first cohort of learners on the Occupational Certificate: Pharmacist’s Assistant Post-Basic are enrolled.
• The manual for the pharmacy technician EISA will be published once the regulations for pharmacy technicians are promulgated.

Council will conduct a workshop to introduce the assessment format to pharmacist’s assistant (basic) on 28 February 2024. Please click here to book for the workshop.

2024 ONLINE EISA WORKSHOP

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2024 EISA WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS

The 2024 EISA Workshop presentation is available for download below:

2024 EISA Presentation

2025 EISA DATES* FOR THE PHARMACIST’S ASSISTANT (BASIC) ARE:

*THESE DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please refer to www.sapc.za.org/Intern_Overview

EISA dates for the pharmacist’s assistant (Post-Basic) will be published once the first cohort of learners on the Occupational Certificate: Pharmacist’s Assistant Post-Basic are enrolled.

EISA dates for the pharmacy technician will be published once the first cohort of learners on the Occupational Certificate: Pharmacy Technician are enrolled.