Future Medical Doctors Are Ready to Prescribe Antimicrobials Safely and Rationally

Haque, Mainul

doi:10.22159/ajpcr.2017.v10i12.21930

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“…Since clinical pharmacology and therapeutics form the scientific basis of prudent prescribing (303)(304)(305)(306), it is imperative to allocate adequate priority to these subjects in both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, and to ensure meaningful assessment of real-life prescribing skills (300,303,304,(306)(307)(308)(309).…”

Section: Overcoming the Problems Undergraduate Medical Education And Training On Antimicrobialsmentioning

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Microbial Resistance Movements: An Overview of Global Public Health Threats Posed by Antimicrobial Resistance, and How Best to Counter

Dhingra

Rahman

Peile

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Antibiotics changed medical practice by significantly decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with bacterial infection. However, infectious diseases remain the leading cause of death in the world. There is global concern about the rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which affects both developed and developing countries. AMR is a public health challenge with extensive health, economic, and societal implications. This paper sets AMR in context, starting with the history of antibiotics, including the discovery of penicillin and the golden era of antibiotics, before exploring the problems and challenges we now face due to AMR. Among the factors discussed is the low level of development of new antimicrobials and the irrational prescribing of antibiotics in developed and developing countries. A fundamental problem is the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding antibiotics among medical practitioners, and we explore this aspect in some depth, including a discussion on the KAP among medical students. We conclude with suggestions on how to address this public health threat, including recommendations on training medical students about antibiotics, and strategies to overcome the problems of irrational antibiotic prescribing and AMR.

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Section: Overcoming the Problems Undergraduate Medical Education And Training On Antimicrobialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microbial Resistance Movements: An Overview of Global Public Health Threats Posed by Antimicrobial Resistance, and How Best to Counter

Dhingra

Rahman

Peile

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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“…Despite all this factual knowledge do not suffice and the future doctors need to attain competency to choose the preferred drug and prescribe it. Haque, in an article on the readiness of future doctors on prescribing safely and rationally opine that prescribing medicines, is the most common clinical intervention for any medical doctor which is multifaceted, thought-provoking, and demands comprehensive knowledge of medicine and diseases along with empathy and integrity [11]. Balani et al stated that active participation in learning pharmacology establishes a better correlation of knowledge of drugs with therapeutics.…”

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Assimilating and Reproducing Concepts After Pharmacology Lecture - A Questionnaire-Based Study

Sreedharan

Palappallil

Veedu

et al. 2020

Asian J Pharm Clin Res

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Objective: Medical undergraduates learn pharmacology during the second phase of MBBS. Considering the expanding list of drugs and volatility associated with its learning, the objective of this study was to describe the factors that interfere with the assimilation and reproduction of the concepts in pharmacology. Methods: This was a descriptive study done in the Department of Pharmacology of a Government Medical College in Central Kerala for a period of 2 months. Five short answer questions were chosen to elicit responses from the participants in the form of a surprise test. A Google fill out form elicited the perception of the participants about learning during the pharmacology lecture. The data were sorted and entered into Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 16 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, USA). Descriptive data were expressed using frequencies and percentages. Results: Of the 148 students, 84 (56.75%) participated in the study. For the surprise test, the mean marks scored were 2.24±0.77 (maximum marks 5). Forty-seven (56%) participants claimed that they were attentive in pharmacology lectures only “sometimes.” The majority of the participants 82 (97.6%) “sometimes” found it difficult to imbibe the concepts in pharmacology. Seventy (83.3%) agreed that definitions are difficult to learn as such. Only 10 (11.9%) disagreed with the statement that a drug’s action cannot be interpreted as its use because sometimes actions can aggravate some diseases. Sixty-one (72.6%) participants had difficulty in understanding the word “rationale.” Five minutes break, continuity of topics, separate question-answer session at the end of class, summarization, a video demonstration of the mechanism of action, providing printed lecture notes, simple explanation, mnemonics to learn, clinical correlation, lectures during morning hours, and team-based quizzes were some suggestions to increase the assimilation of the subject. Conclusion: Participants had a mean score which was <50% of the total score. While the scores for definitions varied the question on uses of drugs fetched similar marks; however, the students had poor performance on the question related to rationale. Ignorance about the meaning of the word “rationale” shows the importance of regular feedback and the use of simple language in understanding the problems faced by the participants in learning the concepts in pharmacology.

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Challenges in commercialization of carbon nanomaterial-based sensors

Altuner¹,

Akin²,

Bayat³

et al. 2022

Carbon Nanomaterials-Based Sensors

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Future Medical Doctors Are Ready to Prescribe Antimicrobials Safely and Rationally

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Microbial Resistance Movements: An Overview of Global Public Health Threats Posed by Antimicrobial Resistance, and How Best to Counter

Microbial Resistance Movements: An Overview of Global Public Health Threats Posed by Antimicrobial Resistance, and How Best to Counter

Assimilating and Reproducing Concepts After Pharmacology Lecture - A Questionnaire-Based Study

Challenges in commercialization of carbon nanomaterial-based sensors

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