Summary
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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.
Prescribing for Specialist Patient Groups
Prescribing for Specialist Patient Groups
Achieving your Medical Degree
This chapter will help you begin to meet the following requirements of Tomorrow's Doctors (General Medical Council (GMC), 2009):
8. (f) Demonstrate knowledge of drug actions: therapeutics and pharmacokinetics; drug side effects and interactions, including for multiple treatments, long-term conditions and non-prescribed medication; and also including effects on the population, such as the spread of antibiotic resistance.
17. Prescribe drugs safely, effectively and economically.
(d)Calculate appropriate drug doses and record the outcome accurately.
(f) Access reliable information about medicines.
It will also link to:
Good Medical Practice (GMC, 2013a)
and
Good Practice in Prescribing and Managing Medicines and Devices (GMC, 2013b), particularly paragraphs 6-11 and 53-54.
Chapter Overview
This chapter will cover prescribing in the following specialist groups:
- older people;
- patients with renal ...
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