Should medical students learn to develop a personal formulary? An international, multicentre, randomised controlled study.
Eur J Clin Pharmacol
; 64(6): 641-6, 2008 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This study was performed to determine whether students who are trained in developing a personal formulary become more competent in rational prescribing than students who have only learned to use existing formularies.METHODS:
This was a multicentre, randomised, controlled study conducted in eight universities in India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain and Yemen. Five hundred and eighty-three medical students were randomised into three groups the personal formulary group (PF; 94), the existing formulary group (EF; 98) and the control group (C; 191). The PF group was taught how to develop and use a personal formulary, whereas e the EF group was taught how to review and use an existing formulary. The C group received no additional training and participated only in the tests. Student's prescribing skills were measured by scoring their treatment plans for written patient cases.RESULTS:
The mean PF group score increased by 23% compared with 19% for the EF group (p < 0.05) and 6% for controls (p < 0.05). The positive effect of PF training was only significant in universities that had a mainly classic curriculum.CONCLUSION:
Training in development and use of a personal formulary was particularly effective in universities with a classic curriculum and with traditional pharmacology teaching. In universities with a general problem-based curriculum, pharmacotherapy teaching can be based on either existing or personal formularies.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Prescrições de Medicamentos
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Estudantes de Medicina
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Química Farmacêutica
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eur J Clin Pharmacol
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article