title: [Teaching students guidelines: prescription in the practice setting].
abstract: The aim of this article is to help primary care teachers to instruct students' recommendations for drug prescription. Teaching drug prescription covers many aspects of primary care physicians' profession: establishing the correct diagnosis, choosing the appropriate treatment for any individual patient, negotiating with the patient concrete ways of taking the treatment, handling the necessary pharmacologic knowledge or existing tools that help treatment choice and communicating efficiently with the patient. The WHO 6-step method is presented. It helps to clarify the complexity of medical prescription so as to make it understandable for the student.
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche de l'enseignement de médecine de premier recours, Faculté de Médecine, CMU, Genève. johanna.sommer@unige.ch
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: Danilo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Janjic
authors.forename: Arabelle
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rieder
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Girardin
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic