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Developing junior doctors' prescribing practices through collaborative practice: Sustaining and transforming the
Christy Noble1,2, Victoria Brazil3,4, Trudy Teasdale5
1a Medical Education Unit, Gold Coast Health , Gold Coast University Hospital , Southport , Queensland , Australia.
Pharmacists enhance junior doctors' prescribing skills through interprofessional collaboration in healthcare settings. This collaborative approach improves medication safety and transforms medical community practices.
Area of Science:
- Pharmacy Practice
- Medical Education
- Interprofessional Healthcare
Background:
- Prescribing in acute care is complex, with frequent medication errors.
- Opportunities exist to enhance prescribing learning via collaborative practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate junior doctors' prescribing capacity development.
- To explore pharmacists' interprofessional contributions to this development and community prescribing practices.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative, interview-based study.
- Purposive sample of 34 participants (junior doctors, medical supervisors, pharmacists) in an Australian teaching hospital.
- Thematic analysis informed by workplace learning theory.
Main Results:
- Pharmacists build junior doctors' prescribing capacity through guidance.
- Pharmacists sustain safe prescribing practices amidst junior doctor rotations.
- Pharmacists transform community prescribing via workplace learning facilitation and team integration.
Conclusions:
- Pharmacists significantly contribute to junior doctors' prescribing capacity and community practice transformation.
- Interprofessional collaboration in daily activities is key for effective prescribing learning and practice advancement over traditional education.
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