Student reflection on own competencies in pharmacology and pharmacotherapy: A pilot study
The goal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy (P&PT) education at the medical faculty is to prepare future doctors to safely prescribe medicines. It is however known that medical students often feel unprepared while prescribing drugs during the clinical clerkships, leading to errors in prescriptions later during their practice. The bachelor phase of the medical curriculum provides students with a theoretical basis essential for clinical clerkships. However, besides summative examinations, there are no other means to concretely examine whether students have achieved their learning goals. Interestingly standard course-evaluations focus predominantly on teaching delivery rather than reflection on one’s learning habits, the achieved learning goals and self-motivation. The feedback obtained from such questionnaires is often sub-optimal to trigger major curricular changes. In order to enable students to efficiently utilize their clinical clerkships and ultimately develop proper prescribing skills, P&PT education in
