Pharmacy students’ evaluation of an interprofessional prescribing workshop with final year medical and pharmacy students

Background: 54 fourth year pharmacy students enrolled on a patient safety optional module attended one prescribing day component with 5th year medical students. The compulsory prescribing day prepared medical students for a summative prescribing safety assessment to address prescribing safety and ability typical of foundation year 1 doctors. This assessment is a pass / fail requirement for the final year medical students. Pharmacy students were required to apply their medication safety knowledge to the interdisciplinary seminars and workshops and contribute to the case discussions. Interactive morning seminars on the BNF, fluids, controlled drugs and anticoagulation prepared students with knowledge to contribute to mixgroup case-based workshops on prescribing, prescription review, calculations, adverse drug reactions and drug monitoring. The workshops involved individual and group analysis of cases facilitated by tutors from a wide range of clinical specialties and disciplines.