title: The prescribing performance and confidence of final-year medical students.
abstract: It is widely believed that medical students are not as well prepared or as sufficiently skilled in prescribing as they should be at the outset of their careers. However, a preclinical context-learning pharmacotherapy program has been found to improve students' therapeutic skills during an ensuing clinical clerkship in internal medicine.(1) In this Commentary, we argue that a similar approach during a clinical clerkship may further enhance therapeutic skills at the end of the clerkship.
authors.affiliation: 1] RECIPE (Research and Expertise Center In Pharmacotherapy Education), Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Brinkman
authors.affiliation: 1] RECIPE (Research and Expertise Center In Pharmacotherapy Education), Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tichelaar
authors.affiliation: 1] RECIPE (Research and Expertise Center In Pharmacotherapy Education), Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: van Agtmael
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schotsman
authors.affiliation: 1] RECIPE (Research and Expertise Center In Pharmacotherapy Education), Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Th P G M
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: de Vries
authors.affiliation: 1] RECIPE (Research and Expertise Center In Pharmacotherapy Education), Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Richir
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D055656:Prescriptions; D013337:Students, Medical