Training good prescribers: what are the best methods?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Training good prescribers

T2 - what are the best methods?

AU - Ross, Sarah

AU - Loke, Yoon K

A2 - Aronson, Jeffrey

PY - 2009/10

Y1 - 2009/10

N2 - Key points Safe and appropriate prescribing is a complex and challenging task A wide variety of educational interventions for prescribing skills have been tested in medical students, but few have looked at practical outcomes such as prescribing errors In the absence of stronger evidence, the WHO Guide to Good Prescribing would serve as a sound basis for the design of a training programme Interventions aimed at rational prescribing and problem solving skills can benefit even those students in the preclinical or early clinical phases of their study

AB - Key points Safe and appropriate prescribing is a complex and challenging task A wide variety of educational interventions for prescribing skills have been tested in medical students, but few have looked at practical outcomes such as prescribing errors In the absence of stronger evidence, the WHO Guide to Good Prescribing would serve as a sound basis for the design of a training programme Interventions aimed at rational prescribing and problem solving skills can benefit even those students in the preclinical or early clinical phases of their study

UR - http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19886112

U2 - 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-5-478

DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-5-478

M3 - Article

C2 - 19886112

SN - 1470-2118

VL - 9

SP - 478

EP - 480

JO - Clinical Medicine - Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

JF - Clinical Medicine - Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

IS - 5

ER -