PMID- 12709185
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030610
LR  - 20220330
IS  - 0308-0110 (Print)
IS  - 0308-0110 (Linking)
VI  - 37
IP  - 5
DP  - 2003 May
TI  - Meeting the challenge of prescribing and administering medicines safely: 
      structured teaching and assessment for final year medical students.
PG  - 434-7
AB  - OBJECTIVES: To promote safe prescribing and administration of medicines in the 
      pre-registration house officer (PRHO) year through a programme of structured 
      teaching and assessment for final year medical students. DESIGN: Forty final year 
      medical students from two medical schools were randomly allocated either to 
      participate in a pharmacist facilitated teaching session or to receive no 
      additional teaching. Teaching comprised five practical exercises covering seven 
      skills through which students rotated in small groups. One month later, a random 
      sample of 16 taught and 16 non-taught students participated in a nine-station 
      objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) to assess the impact of the 
      teaching. SETTING: Manchester School of Medicine (MSM), and Kings College School 
      of Medicine and Dentistry (KCSMD). PARTICIPANTS: Final year medical student 
      volunteers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The need for teaching as indicated by student 
      prior experience; questionnaire rating of student acceptability of teaching and 
      assessment; self-rating of student confidence post-assessment, and student 
      performance assessed by OSCE. RESULTS: The study demonstrated that the taught 
      group achieved higher scores in eight OSCE stations. Four of these were 
      statistically significant (P < or= 0.005). Taught students felt more confident 
      performing the skills on five stations. From 0 to 47.5% students had prior 
      experience of the skills taught. The post-teaching questionnaire evaluated 
      exercises positively on several criteria, including provision of new information 
      and relevance to future work. CONCLUSIONS: Structured teaching provided an 
      effective and acceptable method of teaching the medicines management skills 
      needed in the PRHO year. The structured approach complemented variable precourse 
      clinical experience.
FAU - Scobie, S D
AU  - Scobie SD
AD  - Pharmacy Department, Withington Hospital, Manchester, UK. 
      sue.scobie@smuht.nwest.nhs.uk
FAU - Lawson, M
AU  - Lawson M
FAU - Cavell, G
AU  - Cavell G
FAU - Taylor, K
AU  - Taylor K
FAU - Jackson, S H D
AU  - Jackson SH
FAU - Roberts, T E
AU  - Roberts TE
LA  - eng
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Randomized Controlled Trial
PL  - England
TA  - Med Educ
JT  - Medical education
JID - 7605655
SB  - IM
CIN - Med Educ. 2003 Sep;37(9):839-40. PMID: 12950950
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Clinical Competence/*standards
MH  - Drug Prescriptions/*standards
MH  - Education, Medical, Undergraduate/*standards
MH  - England
MH  - Humans
MH  - Medication Errors/*prevention & control
MH  - Pharmacology/*education
MH  - Students, Medical
EDAT- 2003/04/24 05:00
MHDA- 2003/06/11 05:00
CRDT- 2003/04/24 05:00
PHST- 2003/04/24 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/06/11 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/04/24 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 1492 [pii]
AID - 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2003.01492.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Educ. 2003 May;37(5):434-7. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2003.01492.x.