[How I treat: from specialized pharmacology to drug therapy: a plea for an optimal educational program for rational therapeutics, from decision making to drug prescription].
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics are two complementary disciplines which should lead the medical student, through an optimized training, to a rational prescription of drugs, ultimate and important step of the medical approach. Such a learning should occur progressively throughout the medical education, focusing, first, on the therapeutic reasoning ("why?") and, second, on the practical application leading to the prescription ("how?"). The medical student should learn the difficult task of integrating disease, drug and patient, in order to optimize the benefit/risk ratio, while being informed about new concepts such as "Evidence-Based Medicine" and pharmacoeconomics.
Scheen
A J
AJ
Département de Médecine, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège.
D003657:Decision Making; D004194:Disease; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004358:Drug Therapy; D017850:Economics, Pharmaceutical; D004501:Education, Medical; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000193:education*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013337:Students, Medical