caa a22 4500 475818040 CHVBK 20180406123814.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s002280050710 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s002280050710 The impact of problem-based pharmacotherapy training on the competence of rational prescribing of Yemen undergraduate students [Elektronische Daten] [N. A. G. M. Hassan, A. A. Abdulla, H. A. Bakathir, A. A. Al-Amoodi, A. M. Aklan, T. P. G. M. de Vries] Objective: This study aims to reveal whether a short training course of problem-based pharmacotherapy teaching, based on the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Guide to Good Prescribing and the Yemen Essential Drug List and Standard Treatment Guidelines, will improve the competence of rational prescribing among medical and health assistant students in Yemen. Design: In a controlled pre/post-test study, 111 students from universities and health institutes participated on a voluntary basis. They were randomly separated into a study and a control group. Students of the study group were taught to generate standard first-choice drugs for asthma or diarrhoea. The students were then taught how to apply this set of first-choice drugs to specific patient problems, using the WHO six-step problem-solving approach. Results: Students from the study group performed significantly better than those from control in all problems presented and also when compared with the results of the pre-test. The results of the pre-test also show that teaching students all basic knowledge about drugs does not guarantee rational prescribing in Yemen. Conclusion: It can be concluded from this study that proper training, i.e. 'simmunising' future doctors using problem-based pharmacotherapy teaching, is an efficient way of teaching rational prescribing in Yemen. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Problem-based pharmacotherapy nationallicence Rational prescribing nationallicence Undergraduate nationallicence Hassan N. A. G. M. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University, P.O. Box 14315 (Maain), Sana'a, Republic of Yemen, YE aut Abdulla A. A. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University, P.O. Box 14315 (Maain), Sana'a, Republic of Yemen, YE aut Bakathir H. A. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Aden University, Aden, Yemen, YE aut Al-Amoodi A. A. Department of Pharmacology, Dr. Amin Nasher's High Institute for Health Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Aden, Yemen, YE aut Aklan A. M. Department of Pharmacology, High Institute for Health Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Sana'a, Yemen, YE aut de Vries T. P. G. M. Department of Pharmacology - Pharmacotherapy Division, Faculty of Medicine, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, NL aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s002280050710 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002280050710 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hassan N. A. G. M. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University, P.O. Box 14315 (Maain), Sana'a, Republic of Yemen, YE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abdulla A. A. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University, P.O. Box 14315 (Maain), Sana'a, Republic of Yemen, YE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bakathir H. A. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Aden University, Aden, Yemen, YE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Al-Amoodi A. A. Department of Pharmacology, Dr. Amin Nasher's High Institute for Health Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Aden, Yemen, YE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aklan A. M. Department of Pharmacology, High Institute for Health Sciences, Ministry of Public Health, Sana'a, Yemen, YE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Vries T. P. G. M. Department of Pharmacology - Pharmacotherapy Division, Faculty of Medicine, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, NL aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer