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e -Drug: Malawi – essential training in safe prescribing Louisa Alfazema 1 , David Dewhurst 2 and Ross Ward 2.

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  1. e-Drug: Malawi – essential training in safe prescribing Louisa Alfazema1, David Dewhurst2 and Ross Ward2 1Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi2 Learning Technology, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK

  2. Background • Errors in prescribing compromise patient safety • Medical education may be deficient or inappropriate • Development of an online formulary of essential drugs available 24/7 may help

  3. eDrug:Edinburgh • Developed by pharmacology faculty in 2005 and delivered through medical school VLE • Circa 180 essential drugs • Structure • Clinical uses, doses, routes of administration • Mechanism of action • Contra-indications • Links to quality-assured third-party resources • Links to other Edinburgh teaching resources

  4. e-Drug:Malawi • Based on e-drug:Edinburgh structure but… • Tailored to Malawi essential drugs list • 47 drugs removed and 30 added e.g. anti-malarials, HIV drugs • Some drug categories changed e.g. conditions expanded, some removed e.g. anti-obesity • Delivered via CoM Curriculum Management System – accessible 24/7

  5. Future developments • Adding links to important policy documents • Personalising – add annotation/notes function so that students can add own notes • Provide links to other useful resources • Evaluation – with medical and pharmacy students • Develop versions for nurses and clinical officers

  6. Thank you for your attentionlalfazema@medcol.mwd.dewhurst@ed.ac.ukr.ward@ed.ac.uk

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