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Impact of a focussed teaching programme on practical prescribing skills among final year medical students
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Sandilands, Euan A. Reid, Karen Shaw, Laura Bateman, D. Nicholas Webb, David J. Dhaun, Neeraj Kluth, David C. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | Journal: British journal of clinical pharmacology Medication errors, and particularly prescribing errors, are common in UK hospitals. Junior doctors make the majority of prescribing errors. Deficiencies in prescribing education and training have been closely linked to the high frequency of medication errors. Focussed prescribing teaching can lead to an improvement in prescribing ability. Prescribing confidence can be significantly improved through education. Education is insufficient alone in eradicating prescribing errors. To assess the impact of prescribing teaching on final year medical students. Students randomly allocated to two hospitals completed a prescribing assessment. Prescribing teaching was delivered to the intervention group while no additional teaching was provided for the control group. All students then completed a second prescribing assessment. Teaching improved the assessment score: mean assessment 2 vs. 1, 70% vs. 62%, P= 0.007; allergy documentation: 98% vs. 74%, P= 0.0001; and confidence. However, 30% of prescriptions continued to include prescribing errors. Medical students make significant errors in prescribing. Teaching improves ability and confidence but is insufficient alone in eradicating errors. |
| Related Links | http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3018023?pdf=render https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018023/pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2125.2010.03808.x/pdf |
| Ending Page | 33 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| Starting Page | 29 |
| e-ISSN | 13652125 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2010.03808.x |
| Journal | British journal of clinical pharmacology |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 71 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publisher Date | 2010-12-09 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: British journal of clinical pharmacology Education Research Medical Education Medication Errors |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
