Pharmacotherapeutic Skills Year 3

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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 3 students will discuss cases derived from personal patient contacts. Students are also allowed to bring in cases from their own family (or other environment) as long as the patient has given his/her consent and cases are presented anonymously.