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Evaluation of a pharmacotherapy context-learning programme for preclinical medical students.

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AIM:To evaluate a context-learning pharmacotherapy programme for approximately 750 2nd, 3rd and 4th year preclinical medical students with respect to mastering cognitive pharmacotherapeutic skills, i.e. choosing a (drug) treatment and determining patient information. METHODS:The context-learning pharmacotherapy programme consists of weekly organized role play sessions in the form of consulting hours. Fourth year students sit for a therapeutic Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in the form of consulting hours at the outpatient clinic. Sixty-one 2nd, 74 3rd and 49 4th year medical students who attended the role play sessions and the OSCE were randomly selected. Their performances were assessed by clinical examiners and clinical experts and compared with a reference group of 6th year graduated students. Additionally, the scores of a questionnaire on study load and appreciation were collected. RESULTS:The level of the pharmacotherapeutic skills of the 4th year students who followed the pharmacotherapy context-learning programme was not far below that of 6th year graduates who had finished their clinical clerkships, but had not followed the pharmacotherapy programme. The time spent on the programme was about 1% of the total study load per year. The students appreciated the role play sessions and OSCE by around 80% and 99% of the maximum possible scores. CONCLUSIONS:Preclinical pharmacotherapy context learning has a modest but positive effect on learning cognitive pharmacotherapeutic skills, i.e. choosing a drug treatment and determining patient information. This effect has been obtained with role play sessions, a suboptimal form of context learning, with a minimal study load and a high appreciation by students.

journal_name

Br J Clin Pharmacol

journal_title

British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors

Vollebregt JA,van Oldenrijk J,Kox D,van Galen SR,Sturm B,Metz JC,Richir MC,de Haan M,Hugtenburg JG,de Vries TP

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2125.2006.02742.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-12-01 00:00:00

pages

666-72

issue

eissn

0306-5251

issn

1365-2125

pii

BCP2742

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pub_type

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Evaluation of a pharmacotherapy context-learning programme for preclinical medical students.