European List of Essential Medicines for Medical Education: a protocol for a modified Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Junior doctors are responsible for a substantial number of prescribing errors, and final-year medical students lack sufficient prescribing knowledge and skills just before they graduate. Various national and international projects have been initiated to reform the teaching of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CP&T) during undergraduate medical training. However, there is as yet no list of commonly prescribed and available medicines that European doctors should be able to independently prescribe safely and effectively without direct supervision. Such a list could form the basis for a European Prescribing Exam and would harmonise European CP&T education. Therefore, the aim of this study is to reach consensus on a list of widely prescribed medicines, available in mo

SUBMITTER: Donker E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8098946 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature