Educational Interventions for Medical Students to Improve Pharmacological Knowledge and Prescribing Skills: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medication-related errors place a heavy financial burden on healthcare systems worldwide, and mistakes are most likely to occur at the stage of prescribing. Junior doctors are more likely to make prescribing errors, and medical graduates also lack confidence and preparedness towards prescribing. Thus, this review aimed to evaluate the existing educational approaches to improve pharmacological knowledge and prescribing skills among medical students.

Methods

CENTRAL, CINAHL, ERIC, Ovid Embase, Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid PsycINFO, and Scopus were searched with keywords related to "pharmacological knowledge", "prescribing skills", "educational interventions" for articles published since 2016.

Results

3595 records were identified, and 115 full-text articles were asses

SUBMITTER: Shi W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473179 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature