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Effectiveness of a national approach to online prescribing education on health professional students' prescribing knowledge from multiple disciplines
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Westbury, JL and Khanal, S and Buckley, T and Harnden, C and Koo, M and Peterson, GM and Anna, R and Tse, J and Zuo, Y, Effectiveness of a national approach to online prescribing education on health professional students' prescribing knowledge from multiple disciplines, 3rd Conference on Leadership and Practice Development in Health : conference handbook, 29-30 November, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, pp. 11. (2012) [Conference Extract]
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Abstract
Methods:
In a university examination setting, 83 medical, 40 pharmacy and 13 nurse practitioner students from three
different universities completed a set of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) before and after completing an
online module from the National Prescribing Curriculum (NPC). To minimise overestimation of knowledge due
to guessing, students had to indicate the level of certainty for each of their answers on a three-point scale.
The MCQs were scored using a validated certainty-based marking scheme resulting in a composite score.
Students were also required to rate their perception of the usefulness of the NPC as a learning resource.
Results:
At the pre-module phase, there were no significant differences in the mean and standard deviations of
composite MCQ scores between the medical, pharmacy and nurse practitioner students. The scores improved
significantly for all groups at the post-module phase (p<0.01 for all groups) by similar extents. 39.4% of the
MCQs answered incorrectly with high level of certainty at the pre-module phase were still answered incorrectly
with high level of certainty at the post-module phase. Almost all students found the post-module MCQs and
feedback useful, and found NPC modules to be a helpful learning tool. There were no significant differences
between groups in these feedback items.
Conclusions:
A national approach to prescribing education improved prescribing knowledge of students from multiple
healthcare disciplines and contributed towards streamlining interdisciplinary learning and medication
management.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Conference Extract |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | prescribing education, undergraduate, health professional, on-line |
| Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences |
| Research Field: | Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Other education and training |
| Objective Field: | Other education and training not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Westbury, JL (Associate Professor Juanita Breen) |
| UTAS Author: | Peterson, GM (Professor Gregory Peterson) |
| ID Code: | 82127 |
| Year Published: | 2012 |
| Deposited By: | Pharmacy |
| Deposited On: | 2013-01-16 |
| Last Modified: | 2013-03-07 |
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