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Teaching safe prescribing to medical students: Perspectives in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Nazar, H., Nazar, M., Rothwell, C., Portlock, J., Chaytor, A., & Husband, A. (2015). Teaching safe prescribing to medical students: Perspectives in the UK. Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 6, 279-295. https://doi.org/10.2147/amep.s56179

Prescribing is a characteristic role of a medical practitioner. On graduating from medical school, students are presumed to have acquired the necessary pharmacology knowledge underpinning the therapeutics and developed their personal skills and behav... Read More about Teaching safe prescribing to medical students: Perspectives in the UK.

A study to investigate the effectiveness of SimMan® as an adjunct in teaching preclinical skills to medical students (2014)
Journal Article
Swamy, M., Sawdon, M., Chaytor, A., Barbaro-Brown, J., & McLachlan, J. (2014). A study to investigate the effectiveness of SimMan® as an adjunct in teaching preclinical skills to medical students. BMC Medical Education, 14, https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-231

Background: Following the GMC’s report on Tomorrow’s Doctors, greater emphasis has been placed on training in clinical skills, and the integration of clinical and basic sciences within the curriculum to promote the development of effective doctors. T... Read More about A study to investigate the effectiveness of SimMan® as an adjunct in teaching preclinical skills to medical students.

Substance misuse teaching in undergraduate medical education (2014)
Journal Article
Carroll, J., Goodair, C., Chaytor, A., Notley, C., Ghodse, H., & Kopelman, P. (2014). Substance misuse teaching in undergraduate medical education. BMC Medical Education, 14, https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-34

Background: Over 12,000 hospital admissions in the UK result from substance misuse, therefore issues surrounding this need to be addressed early on in a doctor’s training to facilitate their interaction with this client group. Currently, undergraduat... Read More about Substance misuse teaching in undergraduate medical education.

Do students learn to be more conscientious at medical school? (2012)
Journal Article
Chaytor, A., Spence, J., Armstrong, A., & McLachlan, J. (2012). Do students learn to be more conscientious at medical school?. BMC Medical Education, 12, Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-12-54

Background Professionalism in medical students is not only difficult to define but difficult to teach and measure. As negative behaviour in medical students is associated with post-graduate disciplinary action it would be useful to have a model where... Read More about Do students learn to be more conscientious at medical school?.