Final-year students lack pharmacovigilance competencies, particularly knowledge of adverse drug reaction reporting¶

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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

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q2 i? Final-year students showed low awareness and knowledge of pharmacovigilance and many had received no training in ADR reporting. → 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

Cross-sectional online questionnaire of 298 final-year (6th-year) Dutch medical students across eight medical schools (Schutte et al. 2017), reported in the review's Table 2. Only 48% felt sufficiently prepared to report ADRs; other pharmacovigilance studies similarly reported low knowledge and training.

"Only 48% of the final‐year students felt sufficiently prepared to report ADRs in future practice, and a substantial proportion did not know the authority to which they should report ADRs"

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