Practical Prescribing for Medical Students
Helen Bradbury editor Barry Strickland Hodge editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Published:13th Nov '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Learning to prescribe is an essential part of medical training. Due to various high profile serious prescribing errors, the GMC have introduced stricter prescribing standards which medical students must meet in order to graduate. This book helps medical students learn the essentials of safe prescribing practice, and is aimed directly at their needs. It covers all the aspects of prescribing required by the GMC, including principles of prescribing, law and ethics, professional responsibilities, patient communication, at-risk groups, avoiding common errors and what to do when things go wrong.
Key features:
- Directly linked to the prescribing competencies in the GMC′s Tomorrow′s Doctors and Good Practice in Prescribing Medicines
- Real-life prescribing case studies and scenarios relate the principles to actual practice and placement situations
- Activities throughout each chapter for testing prescribing knowledge and skills
- Test questions for the new Prescribing Skills Assessment to help students prepare and be confident that they can pass.
This book addresses the essentials of safe presecribing for medical students and links directly to the GMC prescribing competencies and real life cases. I liked the activities and test questions. -- Angela Rowlands * drupal *
useful examples and self tests -- Dr Margaret Culshaw * drupal *
Practical Prescribing for Medical Students Provides a clear introduction to evidence based prescribing with clinical cases relevant to what students are likely to encounter as a junior doctor. The chapter summaries are useful for consolidating key points and the clinical case based exercises enable students to apply the clinical theory to practice. It also explores the practical aspects of shared decision making and prescribing in both primary and secondary care. The prescribing for specialist patient groups such as paediatrics and pregnancy are both very useful. -- Dr Nikola Sambandan * drupal *
Valuable not just for medical students, for example this book is used on non medical prescribing course as well -- Mr Steven Jones * drupal *
Aimed at Phases 3 of the MBBS, I am eager for students to engage with this text which is commensurate with national/GMC policy. The complex nature of prescribing is made simple with the principles and practice easily defined. -- Ms Michelle Robinson * drupal *
ISBN: 9781446256398
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 480g
184 pages