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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, and a prescribing exam is soon to be compulsory on all medical programmes. 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.
Evidence-Based Practice and Keeping up to Date
Evidence-Based Practice and Keeping up to Date
Achieving your Medical Degree
This chapter will help you begin to meet the following requirements of Tomorrow's Doctors (General Medical Council (GMC), 2009):
11. (f) Evaluate and apply epidemiological data in managing healthcare for the individual and the community.
12. Apply scientific method and approaches to medical research.
(a) Critically appraise the results of relevant diagnostic, prognostic and treatment trials and other qualitative and quantitative studies as reported in the medical and scientific literature.
(b) Formulate simple relevant research questions in biomedical science, psychosocial science or population science, and design appropriate studies or experiments to address the questions.
(c) Apply findings from the literature to answer questions raised by specific clinical problems.
13. The graduate will ...
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