“…Criticisms of educational provision include the use of traditional teaching methods to teach pharmacology as a science subject, which fails to relate biological and pharmacological theory to clinical settings (Jordan, 2002;Morrison-Griffiths et al, 2002;Banning, 2004;Turner et al, 2007Turner et al, , 2008, and an over-reliance on the continuous assessment of medicine management competencies by busy, possibly over-stretched, clinical mentors. There has also been a lack of agreement with regard to the emphasis that pharmacology should receive in the curriculum, and/ or whether it should have a discrete identity (e.g.…”