Joost D. Piët

What should be updated in the WHO guide to good prescribing?

Abstract Purpose Over 30 years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Guide to Good Prescribing (GGP) with its accompanying six-step model for rational prescribing. While widely used and proven effective in teaching clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT), th...

Case-based pharmacotherapeutic learning structured around the prescribing optimization method and the WHO 6-step model: Medical students’ views from an exploratory questionnaire study

Abstract Purpose Pharmacotherapy is a core competence for physicians and case-based learning is a valuable teaching method for developing this competence. This study explored medical students’ views on structuring pharmacotherapeutic education around either the Prescribing Optimi...