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This site is for practitioner educators involved in the development and delivery of the University of Manchester's medical curriculum.
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Doctors need more drugs training - BBC - 22/01/2008
Trainee doctors are not being given adequate training about the "complex" range of drugs available, a leading pharmacologist has told MPs.
Professor David Webb of Edinburgh University said the vast majority of newly qualified doctors are unsure about giving medicines to patients.
The General Medical Council, which oversees doctors' training, said it was reviewing the area.
But it said doctors had asked for more practical prescribing help.
'Potential risk'
Dementia strategy to bring extra training for GPs - The Pulse - 03/02/2009
GP's will get extra training in early diagnosis and management of dementia as part of the Government's £150 million national strategy to improve treatment of the condition, ministers announced today.
The much-trailed Department of Health strategy will also see ‘memory clinics' staffed by specialists set up across the country.
