A dangerous lack of pharmacology education in medical and nursing schools: A policy statement from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology

How to Fix the Dangerous Lack of Clinical Pharmacology Education in the Medical Profession: The Generation of Core Entrustable Professional Activities in Clinical Pharmacology for Entering Residency

“…Medical training must reflect the indispensable role of clinical pharmacology in the practice of medicine. During this critical time, we as well as others have noted a dangerous lack of clinical pharmacology education in current medical education curricula . Further, many contemporary clinical pharmacology educational articles advocate educational interventions designed to improve medical students’ perceptions of clinical pharmacology and improve prescription writing by providing small study group sessions .…”

Practice‐Readiness of U.S. Pharmacy Graduates to Provide Direct Patient Care

“…Although not the only profession that should be concerned with medication‐related problems, we are the profession best suited to prevent them. Further, it appears that other health care profession colleges and schools are reducing their focus on pharmacology and have limited faculty expertise in the area, creating the opportunity for our workforce to be much more concentrated on DPC activities that both prevent problems with medications as well as increase positive outcomes from their use.…”

“…In addition to the reduction in focus on pharmacology training in medicine and nursing previously cited, two recent articles highlight the importance of residency training for physicians . These articles both point out that most states only require one year of postgraduate residency training to qualify for licensure, which is in contrast to the rigorous requirements for specialty certification.…”

Evaluation of hands on training on prescription writing skills among medical students in a tertiary care teaching hospital

“…[9,10] In the studies done to evaluate the prescription writing skills of the interns and junior doctors, [11][12][13][14] improper training of the students in clinical pharmacology at the undergraduate level was found to be the most important reason responsible for the weak skills of the prescriber. [15][16][17] Therefore, it is essential to have a proper education-based intervention during their undergraduate training to improve the prescribing competencies of the young doctors before any major adverse event happens.…”