Aims Safe prescribing is an essential skill for final-year medical students becoming newly
qualified doctors. It is also an area for which students often feel they are not prepared during …

Prescribing is a characteristic role of a medical practitioner. On graduating from medical
school, students are presumed to have acquired the necessary pharmacology knowledge …

Background: As the main tool through which doctors treat the medically unwell, prescribing
is a practice that is undervalued and under‐taught within modern medicine. Paradoxically …

Aims Prescribing is a key skill for medical students to learn. All final-year students must now
undertake the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) prior to being able to graduate and …

Aims To investigate medical students' perspectives on the influence of their undergraduate
course and the UK prescribing safety assessment (PSA) on the acquisition of practical …

BACKGROUND Preventable adverse drug events (ADE) occur in up to three percent of
patients admitted to Australian hospitals. Many result from prescribing errors involving either …

Background Prescribing errors occur in up to 10 per cent of junior doctor prescriptions, and
medical students feel underprepared for the challenges of prescribing once qualified. A …

One of the challenges for Foundation Year 1 junior doctors is to apply the theoretical
pharmacology from their undergraduate years into practical prescribing. The EQUIP study in …

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT• Safe prescribing is a core
competency in undergraduate medical education.• A large proportion of undergraduate …

Background Prescribing medicines is one of the most common interventions in health care,
so even a small percentage of prescribing errors can affect many patients. Many of these …