Final-year medical students show a general lack of preparedness, self-confidence, knowledge and skills for prescribing, especially in general and antimicrobial prescribing and pharmacovigilance¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2023: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Across the 47 evaluative studies, final-year students had a general lack of preparedness, self-confidence, knowledge and skills, specifically regarding general and antimicrobial prescribing and pharmacovigilance. → Brinkman 2018

Evidence¶

Brinkman 2018¶

Brinkman, D. J., Tichelaar, J., Graaf, S., Otten, R. H. J., Richir, M. C., and van Agtmael, M. A. (2018). Do final‐year medical students have sufficient prescribing competencies? A systematic literature review. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.13491

q2 · i? · review · r3

Systematic review of 47 articles evaluating prescribing competencies of final-year medical students, involving 10,339 students in total. The review concludes students showed "a general lack of preparedness, self‐confidence, knowledge and skills" in the named CPT topics.

"Studies showed that students had a general lack of preparedness, self‐confidence, knowledge and skills, specifically regarding general and antimicrobial prescribing and pharmacovigilance."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Students lack knowledge of and confidence in appropriate antimicrobial prescribing, and most want more training in rational antibiotic selection
• Final-year students lack pharmacovigilance competencies, particularly knowledge of adverse drug reaction reporting
• Final-year students report low confidence in prescription writing and feel underprepared for prescribing