| Assessing prescribing competence. | |
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PMID: 22114902 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Prescribing of medicines is the key clinical activity in the working life of most doctors. In recent years, a broad consensus regarding the necessary competencies has been achieved. Each of these is a complex mix of knowledge, judgement and skills. Surveys of those on the threshold of their medical careers have revealed widespread lack of confidence in writing prescriptions. A valid and reliable assessment of prescribing competence, separate from an overall assessment of medical knowledge and skill, would have many benefits for clinical governance and patient safety, and would provide a measure of the success of training programmes in therapeutics. Delivering such an assessment presents many challenges, not least of which are the difficulty in identifying a surrogate marker for competent prescribing in clinical practice and the challenge of ensuring that competence assessed in a controlled environment predicts performance in clinical practice. This review makes the case for an on-line OSCE as the most valid form of assessment and sets out the requirements for its development, scope, composition and delivery. It describes an on-going attempt to develop a national assessment of prescribing skills towards the end of undergraduate medical training in the UK. |
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John Mucklow; Lynne Bollington; Simon Maxwell |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-11-24 |
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Title: British journal of clinical pharmacology Volume: - ISSN: 1365-2125 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Nov |
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Created Date: 2011-11-25 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7503323 Medline TA: Br J Clin Pharmacol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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© 2011 The Authors. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology © 2011 The British Pharmacological Society. |
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Prescribing Skills Assessment Office, British Pharmacological Society, 16 Angel Gate, City Road, London EC1V, UK Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK. |
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