Improving Medical Prescription Skills in Medical Students: A Hands-On Educational Intervention

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI:10.1111/jep.70135

Victória Borges Bessa, Alice Ornellas Ferrari, Laura Moreira Sanches, Marcela Viscovini Gomes da Silva, Ricardo Filipe Alves da Costa, Wilson Elias de Oliveira Júnior

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Abstract

Rationale

Medical prescription forms a crucial link between healthcare providers and patient treatment outcomes. However, inadequate prescription practices pose significant risks, including therapeutic inefficacy and severe health hazards.

Aims and Objectives

Evaluate the impact of a practical educational course designed to enhance prescription skills among medical students at various stages of their education.

Methods

The workshop addressed prescription issues in hospital and ambulatory settings by adopting a descriptive, prospective approach. Data were collected pre- and post-intervention using structured questionnaires and analyzed using non-parametric tests.

Results

Analysis indicated substantial improvement in students' prescription skills, with statistically significant knowledge gains noted in both early- and advanced-stage students (p < 0.001).

Conclusion

Despite limitations such as sample size and group variability, the study underscores the necessity of integrating innovative, hands-on educational methods into medical curricula to address the often-overlooked skill of medical prescription in the graduation curricula.

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提高医学生处方技能：实践教育干预

医疗处方是医疗保健提供者和患者治疗结果之间的重要联系。然而，不适当的处方做法构成重大风险，包括治疗无效和严重的健康危害。目的和目标评估一门旨在提高医学生在不同教育阶段的处方技能的实践教育课程的影响。方法研讨会通过采用描述性、前瞻性的方法来解决医院和门诊的处方问题。采用结构化问卷收集干预前后的数据，并采用非参数检验进行分析。结果分析表明，学生的处方技能有了实质性的提高，在早期和晚期学生中都有统计学上显著的知识收获（p < 0.001）。尽管样本量和群体差异等方面存在局限性，但该研究强调了将创新的实践教育方法整合到医学课程中的必要性，以解决毕业课程中经常被忽视的医学处方技能。

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来源期刊

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

4.20%

发文量

143

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.