Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15436

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Publication type: Journal Article

Aronson JK, Barnett DB, Breckenridge AM, Ferner RE, Jackson P, Maxwell SR, McInnes GT, Rawlins MD, Ritter JM, Routledge P, Walley TJ, Webb DJ, Williams D, Woods KL.
The UK's NHS and pharma: need for more clinical pharmacologists
The Lancet 2009 Apr 11; 373:(9671):1251 - 1252
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2960726-1/fulltext

Abstract:

The British Pharmacological Society welcomes the recommendations related to clinical pharmacology in the report of the Working Party of the Royal College of Physicians (Feb 7, p 435). 1 In particular we strongly agree that there is a pressing need for more education in the art of practical prescribing 2 through the science of pharmacology. The spotlight should particularly be thrown on to medical students (whose prescribing education has languished in recent years through a declining complement of c …