Editorial Policy

How PTCB Coach AI Creates and Reviews Content

Our editorial policy explains how exam-prep content is created, how AI is used, what sources we rely on, and where human or credentialed review is still required.

PTCB Coach AI publishes independent exam-prep content. Practice questions, articles, and AI explanations are educational study aids only. They are not official PTCB content, actual PTCE exam questions, medical advice, legal advice, or professional pharmacy advice.

Creation Process

How Content Is Produced

  1. Choose a PTCE domain or student problem with clear study intent.
  2. Draft original explanations, examples, and practice prompts mapped to public content areas.
  3. Add direct-answer sections, common mistakes, method steps, and mini practice where useful.
  4. Attach official references for high-risk medication, law, privacy, safety, or product-identification topics.
  5. Mark content with review status and update date.

AI Use

What AI Can and Cannot Do

AI may assist with drafting explanations, summarizing a user's missed-question pattern, generating study-plan language, and creating original similar practice prompts. AI output is treated as study support and is constrained by prompts, fallback responses, source boundaries, and internal link allowlists.

AI is not used as a source of truth for medication, law, or professional advice. It must not claim access to real PTCE exam questions, official PTCB materials beyond public references, or patient-specific clinical judgment.

Review Status

Current Limits

The current beta uses educational template review and official-source checks. High-risk pharmacy law, medication safety, and clinical workflow content should receive credentialed pharmacist, CPhT educator, or qualified instructor review before broad public promotion.

Pages that have not received credentialed review should not be described as pharmacist-reviewed. We prefer a clear beta limitation over a misleading authority claim.

Corrections

How We Handle Issues

If a user reports a possible error, outdated reference, broken citation, or unsafe explanation, the issue should be checked against official sources and the page should be updated with a new reviewed date when corrected.