Do final-year medical students have sufficient prescribing competencies? A systematic literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Prescribing errors are an important cause of patient safety incidents and are frequently caused by junior doctors. This might be because the prescribing competence of final-year medical students is poor as a result of inadequate clinical pharmacology and therapeutic (CPT) education. We reviewed the literature to investigate which prescribing competencies medical students should have acquired in order to prescribe safely and effectively, and whether these have been attained by the time they graduate.

Methods

PubMed, EMBASE and ERIC databases were searched from the earliest dates up to and including January 2017, using the terms 'prescribing', 'competence' and 'medical students' in combination. Articles describing or evaluating essential prescribing competencies of final-

SUBMITTER: Brinkman DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867102 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature