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Pharmacotherapeutical continuing education sessions of general practitioners and pharmacists are considered to be crucial for changing prescribing strategies. Since 1996 they are valued as recertification activities.
At the request of 14 general practitioners two interactive continuing education sessions have been organised focusing on pharmacotherapeutical decisions. Starting point was to confront the general practitioners with their own management as recorded during an earlier registration. Peer review and the discussion about the relevant literature made them formulate agreed strategies for future care. A consultant-paediatrician and two local pharmacists attended the sessions to give feedback. The effect of the sessions has been analysed using a computerised database on prescribed and delivered medication put at our disposal by the pharmacists.
The results showed that a good starting point and reaching consensus about strategies for care are not sufficient to guarantee a positive educational effect.
Therefore, in the perspective of quality of care as well as the quality of retraining programmes this kind of pharmacotherapeutical continuing education sessions have to be looked at critically. They have to be valued realising that changes of management can only be implemented and continued successfully if their necessity has been perceived by the participants.
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Crone-Kraaijeveld, E., van Suijlekom-Smit, L.W.A., Dokter, H.J. (1997). Interactive Continuing-Education Sessions: An Effective Way to Change Strategies?. In: Scherpbier, A.J.J.A., van der Vleuten, C.P.M., Rethans, J.J., van der Steeg, A.F.W. (eds) Advances in Medical Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4886-3_16
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