Academic Facilitators’ Opinions of an Integrated Interprofessional Therapeutics and Prescribing Session for Undergraduate Pharmacy and Medicine Students

Therapeutics and Prescribing Session for Undergraduate Pharmacy and Medicine Students Authors: Dai John, 1 Sion Coulman, 1 Louise Hughes, 1 Efi Mantzourani, 1 Rhian Deslandes, 1 Pamela Bradley, 1 Leanne Roberts, 1 Simon Wilkins, 1,2,3 JamieHayes, 3 John Thompson, 2 James Coulson, 2 Helen Sweetland, 2 Philip Routledge School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, School of Medicine, Cardiff University and Welsh Medicines Resource Centre, Cardiff. Background: A new interprofessional education (IPE) case-based session which integrated therapeutics, prescribing and communication was developed and piloted. Sessions involved year 3 medicine students working together with year 3 or year 4 pharmacy students. Students played the roles of prescriber and patient in medicines history-taking, adverse drug reaction reporting and prescription writing. Over 700 students and 12 faculty have participated in the academic years 2011/12 and 2012/13. Six cases have been used. The aim was to capture the views of faculty involved with facilitation of these sessions.