TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a "prescribing license" for medical students
T2 - development and quality evaluation of an assessment for safe prescribing
AU - Jansen, David R. M.
AU - Keijsers, Carolina J. P. W.
AU - Kornelissen, Michiel O.
AU - Rikkert, Marcel G. M. Olde
AU - Kramers, Cornelis
AU - Tichelaar, J.
AU - Janssen, B.
AU - van den Brink, A. Maassen
AU - Peeters, L.
AU - Dumont, G.
AU - Hessel, M.
AU - Rissmann, R.
AU - Knol, W.
AU - Education working group of the Dutch Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmacy
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Purpose This report describes the development and validation process of an assessment with national consensus in appropriate and safe pharmacotherapy. Methods A question-database on safe prescription based on literature of pharmacotherapy-related harm was developed by an expert group from Dutch medical faculties. Final-year medical students concluded a 2-year education program on appropriate and safe prescription by one of nine assessment variants of 40 multiple-choice questions each. An expert panel of professionals (n = 10) answered all database questions and rated questions on relevance. Questions were selected for revision based on lack of relevance or poor test and item characteristics. Results A total of 576 final-year medical students of the Radboud University was assessed. There was no significant difference in performance between students and content expert group (p = 0.7), probably due to learning behavior. Out of 165 questions, 59 were selected for revision. Conclusion Joint national effort from a team of experts in prescription and pharmacotherapy is an appropriate way to achieve a valid and reliable last-year student drug prescription assessment.
AB - Purpose This report describes the development and validation process of an assessment with national consensus in appropriate and safe pharmacotherapy. Methods A question-database on safe prescription based on literature of pharmacotherapy-related harm was developed by an expert group from Dutch medical faculties. Final-year medical students concluded a 2-year education program on appropriate and safe prescription by one of nine assessment variants of 40 multiple-choice questions each. An expert panel of professionals (n = 10) answered all database questions and rated questions on relevance. Questions were selected for revision based on lack of relevance or poor test and item characteristics. Results A total of 576 final-year medical students of the Radboud University was assessed. There was no significant difference in performance between students and content expert group (p = 0.7), probably due to learning behavior. Out of 165 questions, 59 were selected for revision. Conclusion Joint national effort from a team of experts in prescription and pharmacotherapy is an appropriate way to achieve a valid and reliable last-year student drug prescription assessment.
KW - Prescribing
KW - Medication safety
KW - Education
KW - FREQUENCY
KW - HARM
U2 - 10.1007/s00228-019-02686-1
DO - 10.1007/s00228-019-02686-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 31104076
SN - 0031-6970
VL - 75
SP - 1261
EP - 1268
JO - European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
JF - European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
IS - 9
ER -