Pharmacotherapeutic Skills Year 2

Full course description

In the Netherlands, doctors can choose from over 1500 different generic medicines (and a multitude of branded drugs) that are available on the market. A doctor makes use of approximately 50-150 medicines in his practice. Therefore it is important that a medical student needs to be trained how to select the most optimal medicine for the individual patient.

The department of Pharmacology & Toxicology coordinates the teaching activities on medication. In the bachelor phase students are trained to make rational pharmacotherapeutic choices, via a WHO approved 6-step method. These assignments will be made available via the e-learning program Pscribe (www.pscribe.eu) and help the student in building their personal formulary, a set of medicines with which the physician is very accustomed and can treat most of his patients.

In year 2 the assignments will be available for the following medical problems

1. Hypertension / COPD
2. Pregnancy and medication safety
3. Infections / Gastro-intestinal problems
4. Psychomedical problems
5. Osteoporosis, arthritis, bone fractures

The top 100 of most prescribed medicines in the NL can be retrieved from www.gipdatabank.nl