Mp. Joshi et Pt. Jayawickramarajah, A PROBLEM-ORIENTATED PHARMACOTHERAPY PACKAGE FOR UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL-STUDENTS, Medical teacher, 18(1), 1996, pp. 75-76
A short pharmacotherapy package based on a WHO manual on good prescrib
ing was introduced for the second-year undergraduate medical students
at the Institute of Medicine in Kathmandu. The method used was interac
tive discussions between students and teacher coupled with role-plays
by students in solving therapeutic problems. All the students felt tha
t the package was useful and interesting and it was recommended for fu
ture students. This preliminary experience shows that a short problem-
orientated pharmacotherapy package can be integrated easily and succes
sfully into teacher-centred and discipline-based pharmacology teaching
.