Prescribe will provide content based on the learning outcomes set out in Tomorrow’s Doctors 2009. These reflect earlier proposals made by the Safe Prescribing Working Group, convened by the Medical Schools Council in 2007 (available at www.medschools.ac.uk), and set out in greater detail within the British Pharmacological Society's curriculum for medical students (Teaching safe and effective prescribing in UK medical schools: a core curriculum for tomorrow's doctors. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2003;55:496-503).
These competencies include the ability to: