GUIDE FOR SICAD EXAMINATION.

1. PHARMACEUTICAL POLICY. It is the set of guidelines that, under the direction of the health authority, aims to
guarantee universal access to and responsible consumption or use of medicines and other high quality health supplies
for the benefit of the population.
2. Mexican Standard NOM-059-SSA1 -2013, "Good Manufacturing Practices for Medicines".
3. Mexican Standard NOM-072-SSA1 -2012, "Labeling of medicines and herbal remedies".
4. Mexican Standard NOM-220-SSA1 -2012, "Installation and operation of pharmacovigilance".
5. Mexican Standard NOM-240-SSA1 -2012, "Installation and operation of technovigilance".
6. Agreement issued on 05/27/2010 in the Official Gazette of the Federation, "Agreement determining the guidelines to
which the sale and dispensing of antibiotics shall be subject".
7. PHARMACY: It is the establishment dedicated to the commercialization of pharmaceutical specialties, including
those containing narcotics and psychotropic drugs, health supplies in general and perfumery, beauty and grooming
products.
8. BOTICA: Establishment dedicated to the commercialization of pharmaceutical specialties, including those
containing narcotic and psychotropic drugs or other health supplies.
9. DRUGSTORE: Establishment dedicated to the preparation and sale of magistral and officinal medicines, in addition
to the commercialization of pharmaceutical specialties, including those containing narcotic and psychotropic drugs
and other health supplies.
10. DISPENSING ASSISTANT: This is the person who has the necessary practical knowledge to provide the
medication prescribed by the physician, when the medical prescription or any other requested by the consumer or
user is indispensable, applying the health legislation in force and providing a quality service, with accurate
information on the product purchased.
11. DISPENSING: Professional act whose objectives are the delivery of health supplies in optimal conditions and in
accordance with current regulations.
12. HEALTH SUPPLIES: Medicines, psychotropic substances, narcotics and the raw materials and additives involved in
their manufacture; as well as medical equipment, prostheses, orthoses, functional aids, diagnostic agents, dental
supplies, surgical and healing materials and hygienic products.
13. FOOD: Any substance or product, solid or semisolid, natural or processed, that provides the organism with elements
for its nutrition.
14. DIETARY SUPPLEMENT. These are herbal products, vegetable extracts, traditional foods, dehydrated or
concentrated fruits, with or without added vitamins or minerals, which may be presented in pharmaceutical form and
whose purpose of use is to increase the total dietary intake, complement it or supply any of its components.
15. MEDICATION: Any substance or mixture of substances of natural or synthetic origin having therapeutic, preventive
or rehabilitative effect, presented in pharmaceutical form and identified as such by its pharmacological activity,
physical, chemical and biological characteristics.
16. ALLOPATHIC DRUG: Any substance or mixture of substances of natural or synthetic origin that has therapeutic,
preventive or rehabilitative effect, which is presented in pharmaceutical form and is identified as such by its
pharmacological activity, physical, chemical and biological characteristics, and is registered in the Pharmacopoeia of
the United Mexican States for allopathic medicines.
17. HERBAL MEDICATION: Products made from plant material or any derivative thereof, whose main ingredient is
the aerial or subway part of a plant or extracts and tinctures, as well as juices, resins, fatty and essential oils,
presented in pharmaceutical form, whose therapeutic efficacy and safety have been scientifically confirmed in
national or international literature.
18. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICATION: Any substance or mixture of substances of natural or synthetic origin that has
therapeutic, preventive or rehabilitative effect and that is elaborated according to the manufacturing procedures
described in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United Mexican States, or if it does not include them, in those
of other countries or other sources of national or international scientific information.
19. HERBAL REMEDY : Preparation of medicinal plants, or their parts, individually or combined and their derivatives,
presented in pharmaceutical form to which is attributed by popular or traditional knowledge, the relief of some
participating or isolated symptoms of a disease.
20. ANTIBIOTIC: Chemical substance produced by a living being (microorganisms) or by chemical synthesis
(artificially synthesized), which destroys or inhibits the development of other sensitive microorganisms (generally
bacteria).
21. HEMODERIVATE: Hem oderivatives are those pharmaceutical specialties whose active ingredient comes from the
plasma of healthy human donors through an adequate fractionation and purification process.
22. ANTIVIRALS: Antiviral/antiretroviral drugs are those compounds capable of inhibiting one or more stages of the
viral multiplication cycle within the host cell.
23. ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS (ADR): is any response to a drug that is noxious
and unintended, and that occurs at doses normally applied in humans for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or treatment of
disease, or for the restoration, correction or modification of physiological functions.
24. PHARMACOVIGILANCE: Pharmacovigilance is a broad concept that encompasses the observation of all the
effects produced by a drug, both beneficial and harmful, and provides an instrument for the knowledge about the safe
and rational use of drugs.
25. TECHNOSURVEILLANCE: The purpose of technovigilance is to ensure that medical devices available on the
market perform as intended in accordance with the manufacturer's intended use.
26. LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK:

27. ELEMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON AN INVOICE: Description of the health input, lot number and expiration
date.
28. WHAT IS A MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION: it is a written order issued by the physician (prescription) to fill or
dispense one or several medications to the patient and establishes the formal therapeutic relationship with the patient,
indicates the diagnosis and the non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatment to alleviate the symptoms and
restore the individual's health.
29. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EXPIRED MDICAMENT: Decreases its therapeutic activity, Becomes unstable,
Appearance of toxic substances, formed as a product of degradation during storage, Does not guarantee purity,
potency, physical, chemical and biological properties to ensure its use.
30. WHAT IS SINGREM: is a system designed by the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate compliance with the
environmental regulatory framework.
31. WHAT IS PHARMACOVIGILANCE: Pharmacovigilance "collects, monitors, investigates and evaluates
information on the effects of drugs, biological products, medicinal plants and traditional medicines, with the aim of
identifying information on new adverse reactions, knowing their frequency and preventing harm to patients.
32. TECHNOVIGILANCE: It is defined as the set of methods and observations that allow us to detect adverse incidents
during the use of a medical device, which may cause harm to the patient, operator or the surrounding environment.