Does formative assessment help students to acquire prescribing skills?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Formative assessments can help motivate students and ease students' learning through feedback. There is a pressing need for improvement of clinical pharmacotherapy (CPT) education since junior doctors make many prescribing errors. The aim of this study was to determine whether a formative assessment with personalized narrative feedback helps medical students to increase their prescribing skills.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study was conducted among masters' medical students at Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands. Students made a formative and a summative skill-based prescription assessment, both during clerkships as part of their regular curriculum. Errors in both assessments were categorized by type and possible consequence and compared with each other.

SUBMITTER: Kalfsvel LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9945830 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature