The first step in preparing for medication dispensing is to build your register of Medications. This is the list of medications that are available in your Reach portal for students to take. 

All of your medications need to be added to the Medicines Register before they can be administered to students. Once they are added to your Medicines Register they are then available to be assigned to students for prescription medications (PMO) or, in the case of Over the Counter medications (OTC), permission can be granted to the student to take the OTC.  

Every medications that is added to your medications register will have some basic and common metadata that is used to control how it functions is the medications module.  These metadata components are

1.   Which type of medicine the medication is
   1. Prescription medications are referred to as PMO medications
   2. Over the Counter medications are referred to as OTC medications
      
      
2.   Which category the medication belongs to
   1. You can control the categories of medication that you make available in your System Configuration > Lookups settings.