3rd Safe Prescribing in Acute Hospitals course

17th of March 2024, 09:00 – 15:00 (Virtual)

Attendees will be given a Certificate of Participation at the end of the course, which is equivalent to 5 hours of CPD credit.

International doctors may have limited understanding of safe prescribing practices in the NHS when they arrive to work or train in Acute Hospitals. This is often because prescribing practice in the healthcare systems they have come from is different. Prescribing tasks can cause some anxiety because of limited understanding of how to do this safely in the NHS and because IMGs have no lived experience of observing and rehearsing these tasks as medical students in NHS clinical placements.

Medication errors cost the NHS millions of pounds annually, in addition to the unquantifiable human cost to the patients.

This is an interactive, hands on, one-day online course that supports you to bridge this practice gap with several prescribing tasks covering the sorts of clinical conditions and scenarios you will come across when working in adult medical and surgical specialties. You will receive a Workbook the week before the course with editable prescribing charts and reference to the relevant guidelines and formularies that should support you to attempt the prescribing tasks. On the course, the tutors will provide you with feedback on best prescribing practice for the different tasks.

Whether it is about good antibiotic prescribing practices or medicines reconciliation or prescribing insulin or anticoagulants safely. We have a team of tutors that will support learning around these topics.

Who should attend?

• Foundation doctors
• GP / IMT / Core Surgical / Psychiatry Trainees
• Specialty Doctors & Specialists
• Locally Employed Doctors

Learning Outcomes:

• Safely prescribe a range of antibiotics and identify those that require therapeutic drug monitoring.

• Justify the need for good medicines reconciliation at admission and discharge.

• Justify the need for safe prescribing of anticoagulants, insulin, opiates, antiparkinson drugs, and oxygen.

• Identify the need for dose adjustment of drugs in renal impairment and prescribe these safely.

• Identify adverse drug reactions and manage these appropriately.

This is what participants said:

“Awesome course! Should be required learning for any IMG wanting to work in the NHS. I wholeheartedly recommend it!”

”Overall, I feel more confident and safe to prescribe.”

“Excellent course. I am now familiar with drug charts and sources of information to look for (when prescribing).”

The Course Package includes:

Online Course Link: included below and available once you register

Course Programme: included below

Pre-Course Workbook: A workbook of all the clinical scenarios and prescribing tasks that will be covered on the course. This enables you to attempt the prescribing tasks before the day and to come prepared with questions and queries for the tutors. This will be accessible to you the week before the course.

Feedback form: accessible to you on the day 

PDF copy of course slides: this will be accessible to you here on the day of the course

Video Recording: The video recording will be available to all participants on this course page a week after the event for 30 days from the release date.

Certificate of Participation: equivalent to 5 hours of CPD. It can be downloaded to your account on the this website after the course.

Programme

Tutors