Key Learning Outcomes for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Education in Europe : A Modified Delphi Study
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2018-08
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Harmonizing clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) education in Europe is necessary to ensure that the prescribing competency of future doctors is of a uniform high standard. As there are currently no uniform requirements, our aim was to achieve consensus on key learning outcomes for undergraduate CPT education in Europe. We used a modified Delphi method consisting of three questionnaire rounds and a panel meeting. A total of 129 experts from 27 European countries were asked to rate 307 learning outcomes. In all, 92 experts (71%) completed all three questionnaire rounds, and 33 experts (26%) attended the meeting. 232 learning outcomes from the original list, 15 newly suggested and 5 rephrased outcomes were included. These 252 learning outcomes should be included in undergraduate CPT curricula to ensure that European graduates are able to prescribe safely and effectively. We provide a blueprint of a European core curriculum describing when and how the learning outcomes might be acquired.
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Santa Purviņa is mentioned in the article's section "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS" with Rīga Stradiņš University affiliation. Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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3.1 Basic medicine, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, Pharmacology, Pharmacology (medical)
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The Education Working Group of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) and its affiliated Network of Teachers in Pharmacotherapy (NOTIP), Brinkman, D J & Purvina, S 2018, 'Key Learning Outcomes for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Education in Europe : A Modified Delphi Study', Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 317-325. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.962