Trial reportBritish journal of clinical pharmacology2011
Impact of a focussed teaching programme on practical prescribing skills among final year medical students.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Assessment and evaluation of prescribing competences: A systematic review and recommendations.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- Do educational interventions improve prescribing skills of medical students compared to no additional learning? A systematic review.Medical education online · 2023Pooled it
- Development and Validation of a Teaching Module for Prescription Writing for Dental Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of dental education · 2025Trial
- Evidence to support integrating feedback best practice for computer-based assessment in pharmacology education.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Review
- Evaluating the UK's first national prescribing assessment for GPs in training using an online survey.BJGP open · 2023Article
- Teaching rational prescribing in undergraduate medical education: a systematic search and review.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2023Review
- The frequency and nature of prescribing problems by GPs-in-training (REVISiT): a retrospective review.BJGP open · 2022Article
- Switching from a traditional undergraduate programme in (clinical) pharmacology and therapeutics to a problem-based learning programme.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2021Article
- Pharmacist-Led Education for Final Year Medical Students: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Perspectives of future pharmacists on the potential for development and implementation of pharmacist prescribing in Qatar.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2020Article
- Can a two-hour lecture by a pharmacist improve the quality of prescriptions in a pediatric hospital? A retrospective cohort study.Canadian medical education journal · 2017Article
- The Effect of Medical Recording Training on Quantity and Quality of Recording in Gynecology Residents of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.Journal of caring sciences · 2017Article
- Essential competencies in prescribing: A first european cross-sectional study among 895 final-year medical students.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2017Article
- Knowledge and practices of Indian dental students regarding the prescription of antibiotics and analgesics.Clujul medical (1957) · 2017Article
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- Preparing to prescribe: How do clerkship students learn in the midst of complexity?Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2015Article
- Confidence in Prescription Writing among Junior Physicians in Trinidad and Tobago.The West Indian medical journal · 2015Article
- Teaching safe prescribing to medical students: perspectives in the UK.Advances in medical education and practice · 2015Review
- Online survey on subjective and objective competency in clinical pharmacology skills among final year Australian medical students: a pilot study.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2014Article
- Junior doctor-led 'near-peer' prescribing education for medical students.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2014Article
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Abstract
what is already known about this subjectMedication 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. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS: 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.
aimTo assess the impact of prescribing teaching on final year medical students.
methodsStudents 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.
resultsTeaching 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.
conclusionMedical students make significant errors in prescribing. Teaching improves ability and confidence but is insufficient alone in eradicating errors.
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