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Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns
OBJECTIVES: To find out the impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics (CPT) to medical undergraduates (UGs) and interns. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional, prospective study was conducted on three UGs batches and interns using two pretested validated structured que...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4979305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27563589 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-516X.186967 |
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author | Desai, Mira K Panchal, Jigar R Shah, Samdih Iyer, Geetha |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To find out the impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics (CPT) to medical undergraduates (UGs) and interns. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional, prospective study was conducted on three UGs batches and interns using two pretested validated structured questionnaires, modified from the work of Tobaiqy et al. The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. ANOVA and Chi-square test were used for statistical analysis. The value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: A total of 379 UGs and 96 interns participated in this study. Mean knowledge score of interns was significantly reduced as compared to UGs (P < 0.0001). A significant increase in confidence for unsupervised prescribing of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (99%), oral rehydration salt, iron salts was perceived among interns as compared to UGs (P < 0.05). However, 63.5% confessed problems in selection of drugs, drug–drug interactions, prescribing in special patient population. Although they were confident prescribing fixed dose combination for adult patients (89.5%), majority were hesitant to prescribe opioids (77%), steroids (76%), vaccines (75%), and antihypertensives (62%). CONCLUSION: The theoretical CPT teaching transfers knowledge to UGs; however, it is not retained in internship and does not adequately prepare interns to prescribe safe and rational drugs. |
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spelling | pubmed-49793052016-08-25 Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns Desai, Mira K Panchal, Jigar R Shah, Samdih Iyer, Geetha Int J Appl Basic Med Res Original Article OBJECTIVES: To find out the impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics (CPT) to medical undergraduates (UGs) and interns. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional, prospective study was conducted on three UGs batches and interns using two pretested validated structured questionnaires, modified from the work of Tobaiqy et al. The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. ANOVA and Chi-square test were used for statistical analysis. The value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: A total of 379 UGs and 96 interns participated in this study. Mean knowledge score of interns was significantly reduced as compared to UGs (P < 0.0001). A significant increase in confidence for unsupervised prescribing of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (99%), oral rehydration salt, iron salts was perceived among interns as compared to UGs (P < 0.05). However, 63.5% confessed problems in selection of drugs, drug–drug interactions, prescribing in special patient population. Although they were confident prescribing fixed dose combination for adult patients (89.5%), majority were hesitant to prescribe opioids (77%), steroids (76%), vaccines (75%), and antihypertensives (62%). CONCLUSION: The theoretical CPT teaching transfers knowledge to UGs; however, it is not retained in internship and does not adequately prepare interns to prescribe safe and rational drugs. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4979305/ /pubmed/27563589 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-516X.186967 Text en Copyright: © 2016 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Desai, Mira K Panchal, Jigar R Shah, Samdih Iyer, Geetha Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns |
title | Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns |
title_full | Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns |
title_short | Evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns |
title_sort | evaluation of impact of teaching clinical pharmacology and rational therapeutics to medical undergraduates and interns |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4979305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27563589 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-516X.186967 |
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