Educating European (junior) doctors for safe prescribing

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 395-400

  Maxwell, Simon R J ^a   Cascorbi, Ingolf ^b   Orme, Michael ^c   Webb, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c Lark House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EUROPE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EUROPE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHARMACOLOGY, CLINICAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 36248954914     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00141.x     Document Type: Review

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